From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751823AbXBPBJb (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:09:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751827AbXBPBJa (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:09:30 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:49585 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751823AbXBPBJa (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:09:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:04:14 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: lkml Cc: akpm , tytso@mit.edu Subject: [PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER Message-Id: <20070215170414.56e6193b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Randy Dunlap Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.20-git9.orig/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ linux-2.6.20-git9/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ characters, each representing a particul 6: 'B' if a page-release function has found a bad page reference or some unexpected page flags. + 7: 'U' if a user specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, + ' ' otherwise. + 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