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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2007-02-20 13:58:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-20 17:10:15 -0800 |
| commit | a631694a36a3b52b786b3ae6abe54bd8d1b6eb74 (patch) | |
| tree | 781144f5cef0426184f1780d43badeb7e4884fcf /Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |
| parent | 63967fa911c2c49376d0b1e171ef98e1b2b075af (diff) | |
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[PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER
Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/oops-tracing.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 2503404ae5c2..ea55ea8bc8ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 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. + + 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 |