When are machine checks suppose to be recoverable?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Aug 24 09:10:38 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:04 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> If the machine is locking hard it could be check stopping due to  
> getting a second machine check.

Perhaps... but it's not the _second_ machine check. We already take 33
of them, and recover, while the i8042 driver is poking for hardware. We
also tend to survive a few while the 8250 driver is poking... but not
all of them.

Some timing issue with recovering and then causing another machine check
in quick succession?

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dwmw2





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