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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:05:02 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Interpreting MCA error output
Message-ID:  <4E9D797E.6000703@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111018113302.GA14363@icarus.home.lan>
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on 18/10/2011 14:33 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> Why?  Most MCEs on FreeBSD will panic the machine.

Incorrect.  Correctable MCEs should not panic a machine.  Uncorrectable should.

>  I would need to go
> through the MCA code to see what all gets handled elegantly,

Please do.

> but I
> imagine there isn't much.

Please defer your imagination.

> Also, isn't devd for device removal/insertions?

Not only.  It might have started like that, but now it is almost a generic
mechanism for kernel to userland notifications (e.g. ACPI events).

> This would be using
> devd for something it isn't intended for.  I guess I have "moral
> objections" to it.  What you're really wanting is Solaris's fmd(1m)
> daemon, which I believe is also tied heavily into Solaris's smf(5)
> architecture.
> 
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1462/fmd-1m.html


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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