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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Document kernel taint flags properly Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:55:15 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20081017225515.GA14133@kroah.com> (raw) From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> This fills in the documentation for all of the current kernel taint flags, and fixes the number for TAINT_CRAP, which was incorrectly described. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -363,11 +363,21 @@ tainted: Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which can be ORed together: - 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this - includes modules with no license. - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. - 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. - 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. - 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. + 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this + includes modules with no license. + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. + 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. + 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. + 8 - A module was forcefully unloaded from the system by rmmod -f. + 16 - A hardware machine check error occured on the system. + 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system. + 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This + could be because they are running software that directly modifies + the hardware, or for other reasons. + 128 - The system has died. + 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user + instead of using the one provided by the hardware. + 512 - A kernel warning has occurred. +1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
next reply other threads:[~2008-10-17 22:58 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2008-10-17 22:55 Greg KH [this message] 2008-10-18 8:51 ` [PATCH] Document kernel taint flags properly Michael Kerrisk 2008-10-20 20:43 ` Greg KH 2008-10-20 21:37 ` Randy Dunlap 2008-10-20 21:40 ` Greg KH
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