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From: Matthias Fouquet-Lapar <mfl@kernel.paris.sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:23:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Better MCA recovery on IPF
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> I want to check some in MCA recovery.
> Here is some steps, roughly say:

One of the complexities is recovery on a large-scale system, if for
example, multiple CPUs access a poisoned memory location at the same time.

Other "interesting" errors scenarious are if data is DEX with bad ECC in CPU 
A's cache and CPU B requests the line from CPU A. 

>  - Interruption must be synchronized.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.


Thanks

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