Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:51:11 -0500 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Document kernel taint flags properly |
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Greg,
Small corrections below.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > 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.
s/forcefully/forcibly/
> + 16 - A hardware machine check error occured on the system.
occurred
> + 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.
Cheers,
Michael
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