Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491 | Date | Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:50:01 +1100 |
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47, Keith Owens wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT), > > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > >> > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote: > >> > > Chen, Kenneth W writes: > >> > > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before? On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64. > >> > > > > >> > > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3 > >> > > > > >> > > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3 > >> > > > >> > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > >> > > > >> > > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules > >> > > linked in. > >> > > >> > AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary > >> > modules. > >> > >> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people. > >> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over > >> the last few months). > >> > >> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of > >> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ? > > > >Please, please do: it's insane as is. But I've CC'ed Keith, > >we sometimes find the kernel does things so to suit ksymoops. > > 'G' is not one of mine, I find it annoying as well.
Would anyone object to changing it so that tainted only means Proprietary taint and use a different keyword for GPL tainting such as "Corrupted"?
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