Tony and Gerry, thanks! Regards, Joe On 06/01/13 02:29, Luck, Tony wrote: > Gerry has this right - we want to preserve the error information, but we > don't trust our kernel enough to have it write to a regular disk (perhaps > it has no access to I/O because of the error - or worse, perhaps it might > write to the wrong place or the wrong disk). > > In theory data the information in the machine check banks is preserved > across a warm reset for the reboot - but in practice we may sometimes > need a power-cycle and full cold reset. Also I've heard that on some systems > the BIOS clears the banks before the OS can see them. > > -Tony > -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Joe Jin | Software Development Senior Manager | +8610.6106.5624 ORACLE | Linux and Virtualization No. 24 Zhongguancun Software Park, Haidian District | 100193 Beijing -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
