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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 01:15:46 +0000
Subject: RE: [RFC] Better MCA recovery on IPF
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> I can estimate what the procedure includes, such as changing 
> poisoned memory to uncacheable, clearing suspect data in cache, and storing 
> zeros to the poisoned area.

There is no way to tell if the error is soft/transient
and can be cleared by that sequence, or hard/permanent.

The safest option is to simply take the page with
the error out of service and not re-use it.

-Tony