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Subject[PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.20-git9.orig/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ linux-2.6.20-git9/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ characters, each representing a particul
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.
+
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
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