When are machine checks suppose to be recoverable?

[Kumar Gala]

On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:30 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 07:44 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>
> Yeah, that'll probably be the reason it turns out _not_ to be
> recoverable despite our expectations. But that wasn't Kumar's  
> question.

David's right, that wasn't my question :)  I was asking more about  
what cases do we actually recover and that is considered correct  
behavior.

- kumar