Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 10:00:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 10:00:06 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:38929 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:59:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Machine check exception? (2.4.6+SMP+VIA) To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:00:22 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), vhou@khmer.cc (Vibol Hou), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux-Kernel) In-Reply-To: <20010708192805.C26213@weta.f00f.org> from "Chris Wedgwood" at Jul 08, 2001 07:28:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Is there any reason why, with proper MCE checking for both K7 and PIII > we can't automatically off-line processors when they start doing bad > things? Architectural limitations. Its entirely possible that the cache of the dying processor contains exclusive copies of arbitary data. > Also, I'm pretty sure I was seeing overheating problems or something > on a K7 at one point, but never saw MCE; I take it this code only > exists fully in -ac kernels? I looked in Linus' tree and couldn't see > anything. Only -ac has K7 MCE enabled right now - also MCE is not guaranteed to catch problems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/