Re: [PATCH 3/5] mce-inject: make injected mce valid only during fakedhandler call

[Andi Kleen]

Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> This has an undesired side-effect: it is possible for it to be
>>> consumed by real machine_check_poll. This may confuse a real system
>>> error and may confuse the mce test suite.
>> You can just disable the poll handler in the test suite. That's
>> what we did.
> 
> I'd like to fix this simply, rather than providing documentation like
> "you should turn off polling before you use the mce-inject."

We already fixed the documentation to include that. mce-inject is not expected
to be used by unskilled users, so relying in documentation is ok.

-Andi
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