From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:33:31 +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 Hi. > Are you meaning > > synchronous MCA is caused within an execution context, for example > a process is doing a load and hits an exception > > whereas a asynchronous MCA could happen when a line is written back > to main memory and this could happen outside of the process's context ? That's right. Thus, the platform should use data poisoning to get capacity of sending synchronous MCA instead of asynchronous MCA, even though the poisoning is not the best way. Thanks. ------ H.Seto