> For example, in the case of an application hitting a memory > uncorrectable on a multi-processor system, the MCA will be handled > by PAL and SAL. If SAL can determine the failing HW physical address, > it could pass that information up to linux. Linux could look at the > physical address and figure out which application has that address > mapped and kill the application, without crashing the system. Linux > should also not allow that physical memory to be reused by any other > process. Hi, I just wondered if a speculative load hitting a cache or memory error does cause an exception on IA64 ? Thanks Matthias Fouquet-Lapar Core Platform Software mfl@sgi.com VNET 521-8213 Principal Engineer Silicon Graphics Home Office (+33) 1 3047 4127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Nov 3 12:46:51 2003
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