Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix 460EX/460GT machine check handling

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:50:44 +1100

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 06:27 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:43 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]> 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.