From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1: Oops and Gnome desktop freezes
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:54:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070425125406.9253bd49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070425193511.GB3006@redhat.com>
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:35:11 -0400 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:12:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > EIP: 0060:[<c014c469>] Tainted: G D VLI
> >
> > For some reason all oopses (and boy there are a lot of them) are being
> > described as tainted.
>
> What's "D" though ?
Pretty flattering, if it's on a scale of A-F.
> grep -i taint broken-out/* doesn't show
> -mm adding any new flags, and I don't see it present in mainline.
report-that-kernel-is-tainted-if-there-were-an-oops-before.patch:
+ 8: 'D' if a kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG
+ before, ' ' otherwise. This is useful when seeing the calltrace
+ from SysRq-P output.
I suspect that patch has gone bad and it's reporting 'D' for the very first
oops, which it shouldn't do.
But I haven't checked that theory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-25 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-25 14:49 2.6.21-rc7-mm1: Oops and Gnome desktop freezes Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-25 19:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-25 19:35 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-25 19:42 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-25 19:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-25 20:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-25 23:29 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-26 3:34 ` Dan Kruchinin
2007-04-26 9:23 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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