The PII and the like have two ways of handling failures the chip detects. THe
default behaviour is a shutdown cycle, a reboot. The optional behaviour is
to take a machine check exception (ie an 'oh shit' trap). That lets you
find out what exploded and will report stuff like cache parity errors
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