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2011-11-07module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-treeBen Hutchings
Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very little review. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
2010-05-19panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I')Ben Hutchings
This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI DMAR tables. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-05-19panic: Allow warnings to set different taint flagsBen Hutchings
WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that are then worked-around. These bugs do not affect the stability of the kernel and should not set the flag for TAINT_WARN. To allow for this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint number as argument. Architectures that implement warnings using trap instructions instead of calls to warn_slowpath_*() now implement __WARN_TAINT(taint) instead of __WARN(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-11-09docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txtNick Bowler
If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be. Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-04-29Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)Nur Hussein
The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set. This is useful to know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag in the taint state. This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition. These archs are: 1. s390 2. superh 3. avr32 4. parisc The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list in this email to alert them to the situation. The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the new flag. Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein <nurhussein@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPSPavel Emelianov
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode infoRandy Dunlap
Add info that the Code: bytes line contains <xy> or (wxyz) in some architecture oops reports and what that means. Add a script by Andi Kleen that reads the Code: line from an Oops report file and generates assembly code from the hex bytes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08doc: fix oops-tracing duplicateMichal Piotrowski
Remove duplicate 'U' entry -- fix mis-merge. Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20[PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USERRandy Dunlap
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>
2006-01-11[PATCH] doc: refer to kdump in oops-tracing.txtAkinobu Mita
Kdump has been merged and supported on several architectures. It is better to encourage to use kdump rather than non standard kernel crash dump patches. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-15[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGADave Jones
Something I've found handy countless times when users do this.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photosDiego Calleja
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ksymoops related docs updateJesper Juhl
Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)Randy Dunlap
Update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: - add descriptions of 3 more "Tainted" flags; - fix some typos; Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!