Re: Causes of a Machine Check Exception
Re: Causes of a Machine Check Exception
- Subject: Re: Causes of a Machine Check Exception
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:53:21 -0700
Naturally, it looks like I jumped the gun. I only had one more recursive
call that had to be changed. Looks like it's working now.
Still, it would be nice to know if there is anything besides a stack
overflow that would cause an MCE from code.
Thanks again,
...Duane
--- At Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:24:20 -0700, Duane Murphy wrote:
>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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