From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] taint: add module firmware crash taint support
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 19:19:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b48a2894-f67c-03d1-502a-9e7e7d4435ff@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200509164653.GK11244@42.do-not-panic.com>
On 5/9/20 9:46 AM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 11:18:29AM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote:
>> We are still missing the documentation bits for this
>> new flag, though.
>
> Ah yeah sorry about that.
>
>> How about having a blurb similar to:
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>> index 71e9184a9079..5c6a9e2478b0 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>> @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Bit Log Number Reason that got the kernel tainted
>> 15 _/K 32768 kernel has been live patched
>> 16 _/X 65536 auxiliary taint, defined for and used by distros
>> 17 _/T 131072 kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin
>> + 18 _/Q 262144 driver firmware crash annotation
>> === === ====== ========================================================
>>
>> Note: The character ``_`` is representing a blank in this table to make reading
>> @@ -162,3 +163,7 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
>> produce extremely unusual kernel structure layouts (even performance
>> pathological ones), which is important to know when debugging. Set at
>> build time.
>> +
>> + 18) ``Q`` Device drivers might annotate the kernel with this taint, in cases
>> + their firmware might have crashed leaving the driver in a crippled and
>> + potentially useless state.
>
> Sure, I'll modify it a bit to add the use case to help with support
> issues, ie, to help rule out firmware issues.
Please also update tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint.
> I'm starting to think that to make this even more usesul later we may
> want to add a uevent to add_taint() so that userspace can decide to look
> into this, ignore it, or report something to the user, say on their
> desktop.
thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-10 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-09 4:35 [PATCH 00/15] net: taint when the device driver firmware crashes Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 01/15] taint: add module firmware crash taint support Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 15:18 ` Rafael Aquini
2020-05-09 16:46 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-10 2:19 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 02/15] ethernet/839: use new module_firmware_crashed() Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 03/15] bnx2x: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 04/15] bnxt: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 05/15] bna: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 06/15] liquidio: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 07/15] cxgb4: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 08/15] ehea: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 09/15] qed: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 6:32 ` [EXT] " Igor Russkikh
2020-05-09 16:42 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-12 16:23 ` Igor Russkikh
2020-05-12 17:34 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-14 14:53 ` Igor Russkikh
2020-05-15 20:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-15 20:37 ` Igor Russkikh
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 10/15] soc: qcom: ipa: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 11/15] wimax/i2400m: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 12/15] ath10k: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 13/15] ath6kl: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 14/15] brcm80211: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 4:35 ` [PATCH 15/15] mwl8k: " Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-09 18:35 ` [PATCH 00/15] net: taint when the device driver firmware crashes Jakub Kicinski
2020-05-11 14:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-10 1:01 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-05-10 1:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-10 2:15 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-05-11 14:13 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-11 19:21 ` Steven Rostedt
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