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For testing and configuration purposes, it may be necessary for software to
intentionally generate a machine check. In this case PALE_CHECK will log the error
information, but not attempt recovery before branching to SALE_ENTRY. To allow for
this, the PAL_MC_EXPECTED procedure call is defined to indicate that PALE_CHECK
should not to attempt recovery.
11.3.1.1
Resources Required for Machine Check and Initialization Event
Recovery
While the level of recovery from machine checks is implementation dependent, for each
particular level of recovery there is a set of architecturally required resources. The
following paragraphs define the required and optional resources needed to support
firmware and software recovery of machine checks and initialization events.
• Minimal resources required to allow software recovery of machines checks when
PSR.ic=1:
• XR0 register: memory pointer to min-state save area previously registered with
PAL via the PAL_MC_REGISTER_MEM procedure. The layout of this memory
area is described in
Section 11.3.2.4, “Processor Min-state Save Area Layout”
• Bank zero registers GR 24 through GR 31. These registers are not preserved
across interruptions and may be used as scratch registers by machine check
recovery code. See
Section 3.3.7, “Banked General Registers” on page 2:42
the definition of the bank 0 registers.
• Additional resources required to allow software recovery of machine checks when
PSR.ic=0. The presence of these resources is processor implementation specific.
The PAL_PROC_GET_FEATURES procedure described on
returns
information on the existence of these optional resources.
• XIP, XPSR, XFS: interruption resources implemented to store information about
the IIP, IPSR and IFS when the machine check occurred. A model-specific
version of the
rfi
instruction must also be implemented to restore the machine
context from these resources.
• XR1-XR3: scratch registers implemented to preserve bank 0 GR 24 through GR
31.
Each of the registers described above should be accessed only by PAL in order to
support firmware and software recovery of machine checks.
11.3.2
PALE_CHECK Exit State
The state of the processor on exiting PALE_CHECK is listed below. For registers
described as being saved to the min-state save area and available for use, the actual
values in these registers are undefined unless specifically stated otherwise.
• GRs: The contents of all non-banked static registers (GR1-GR15), bank zero static
registers and bank one static registers (GR16-31) at the time of the MCA have been
saved in the min-state save area and are available for use.
• If recovery is not supported when PSR.ic=0 then GR24 - GR31 (bank 0) are
undefined and their contents have been lost. In this case, recovery is not
possible. See Section 11.3.1.1, “Resources Required for Machine Check and
Initialization Event Recovery” for details.
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