From 95b570c9cef3b12356454c7112571b7e406b4b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nur Hussein Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:58:39 -0700 Subject: Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set. This is useful to know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag in the taint state. This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition. These archs are: 1. s390 2. superh 3. avr32 4. parisc The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list in this email to alert them to the situation. The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the new flag. Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 7f60dfe642ca..b152e81da592 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 8: 'D' if the kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG. + 9: 'A' if the ACPI table has been overridden. + + 10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is -- cgit v1.2.3