From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945975AbXBPQdz (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:33:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945987AbXBPQdz (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:33:55 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:31712 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945975AbXBPQdy (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:33:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:30:29 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Theodore Tso Cc: lkml , akpm Subject: Re: [PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER Message-Id: <20070216083029.ab6908e4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070216145033.GA25957@thunk.org> References: <20070215170414.56e6193b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070216145033.GA25957@thunk.org> 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 On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:50:33 -0500 Theodore Tso wrote: > I suggest you change this to read "if a user or user application". > > Otherwise, > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" From: Randy Dunlap Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- 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 or user application 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