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Causes of a Machine Check Exception



Howdy kernel folk,
I'm working on a kext and have managed to code myself into causing a
Machine Check Exception. Fun. :-)

Stack traces are meaningless so I am trying to work out the possible
causes of an MCE from my code.

I'm pretty certain at one cause of an MCE is stack overflow. That's the
first place I am looking. I have some code that is likely accidentally
being called endlessly recursively (oops :-). (I fully understand the
recursive problem, it's just a matter of finding the offending callers.)

What are the other potential causes of an MCE?

(Note: this is _not_ a hardware problem. My code is clearly causing the
problem.)

Thanks for the tips,
 ...Duane

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