Intel IA-32 - Manual (Page 548)

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MACHINE-CHECK ARCHITECTURE
The basic algorithm given in Example 14-21 can be modified to provide more robust recovery
techniques. For example, software has the flexibility to attempt recovery using information
unavailable to the hardware. Specifically, the machine-check exception handler can, after
logging carefully analyze the error-reporting registers when the error-logging routine reports an
error that does not allow execution to be restarted. These recovery techniques can use external
bus related model-specific information provided with the error report to localize the source of
the error within the system and determine the appropriate recovery strategy.