Re: APIC error interrupt

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:03:42 +0100 (BST)

> checksum warning 3 times every hour, then it is likely that your
> machine will have an undetected error once every 80 hours or so...
>
> And can such an undetected error cause a lockup?

Maybe. We might lose an IRQ, we might take a wrong IRQ, we might also lose
cache coherency missing a TLB flush. Most would probably be bad but Im not
sure we'd take a hang from it.

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