From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753558AbXDYTyz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:54:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754116AbXDYTyz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:54:55 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:60830 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753558AbXDYTyy (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:54:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:54:06 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Jones Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" , Linux Kernel Development , Pavel Emelianov Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1: Oops and Gnome desktop freezes Message-Id: <20070425125406.9253bd49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070425193511.GB3006@redhat.com> References: <1177512596.4856.17.camel@daplas> <20070425121242.52698643.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070425193511.GB3006@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:35:11 -0400 Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:12:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > EIP: 0060:[] 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.