[PATCH] powerpc: Fix 460EX/460GT machine check handling
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 12 22:50:44 EST 2008
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 06:27 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:43 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > Those cores use the 440A type machine check (ie, they have
> > MCSRR0/MCSRR1). They thus need to call the appropriate fixup
> > function to hook the right variant of the exception.
> >
> > Without this, all machine checks become fatal due to loss
> > of context when entering the exception handler.
>
> Looks fine to me. However, what machine checks were you getting that
> caused you to see this that aren't fatal anyway?
PCI aborts from userspace when toying with video card POSTing &
x86emu :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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