From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Fouquet-Lapar Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:33:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] Better MCA recovery on IPF Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > We already have that interface, it is called a signal. The kernel code > for handling these events has to be architecture dependent but, once > the data has been gathered and the decision made about which user > process to kill, we just send SEGV. :-) I think there is more to it, for example we should avoid re-allocating a page which has a hard error to make sure that the next user stumbles over this again. Maybe this information should also be kept accross a reboot for the same reason. Then you need some API to maintain this information, if for example a DIMM is replaced and it is not longer require to map out a page with an error. Thanks Matthias Fouquet-Lapar Core Platform Software mfl@sgi.com VNET 521-8213 Principal Engineer Silicon Graphics Home Office (+33) 1 3047 4127