From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document kernel taint flags properly Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:51:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20081017225515.GA14133@kroah.com> Reply-To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081017225515.GA14133-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Greg KH Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Greg, Small corrections below. On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > This fills in the documentation for all of the current kernel taint > flags, and fixes the number for TAINT_CRAP, which was incorrectly > described. > > Cc: Michael Kerrisk > Cc: Randy Dunlap > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > --- > Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt > +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt > @@ -363,11 +363,21 @@ tainted: > Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which > can be ORed together: > > - 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this > - includes modules with no license. > - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. > - 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. > - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. > - 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. > - 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. > + 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this > + includes modules with no license. > + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. > + 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. > + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. > + 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. > + 8 - A module was forcefully unloaded from the system by rmmod -f. s/forcefully/forcibly/ > + 16 - A hardware machine check error occured on the system. occurred > + 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system. > + 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This > + could be because they are running software that directly modifies > + the hardware, or for other reasons. > + 128 - The system has died. > + 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user > + instead of using the one provided by the hardware. > + 512 - A kernel warning has occurred. > +1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html