When are machine checks suppose to be recoverable?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:00 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> David's 8250 cleanup patch made me wondering when are machine checks  
> suppose to recoverable?  General class of conditions is what I'm  
> looking for here.
> 
> Is David's case due to some PCI master abort or something else?

Might be some issue on SMP machines... 

Ben.