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exception more readable. In practice they prevented all logging during a machine check exception on at least some systems. Specifically, when an uncorrected ECC error is detected in a DIMM on a Nehalem/Westmere class machine, all CPUs receive a machine check exception, but only CPUs on the same package as the memory controller for the erroring DIMM log an error. The CPUs on the other package would complete the scan of their machine check banks and panic before the first set of CPUs could log an error. The end result was a clearer display during the panic (no interleaved messages), but a crashdump without any useful info about the error that occurred. To handle this case, make all CPUs spin in the machine check handler once they have completed their scan of their machine check banks until at least one machine check error is logged. I tried using a DELAY() instead so that the CPUs would not potentially hang forever, but that was not reliable in testing. While here, don't clear MCIP from MSR_MCG_STATUS before invoking panic. Only clear it if the machine check handler does not panic and returns to the interrupted thread. |
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