From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: memory parity error Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 13:51:02 GMT
In article <1993Feb17.011455.13402@ramon.bgu.ac.il> shachar@ramon.bgu.ac.il (Shachar Fleishman) writes:
>What does linux do when a memory parity error exception occures?
>couldn't find anything in the kernel source.
Linux mostly disables the NMI totally - but if a NMI comes through even
so (this can happen on some portables etc), linux just prints something
along the lines of
NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue.
and ignores the error (there's really nothing you can do about it
anyway: buy better RAM). I should re-enable NMI's just so that memory
problems would be more easily noticed, but I haven't gotten around to it
yet.
Linus