Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel: set taint flag 'L' at any kind of lockup | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:19:54 +0100 |
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Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> writes: > Any lockup or stall notifies about unexpected lack of progress. > It's better to know about them for further problem investigations. > > Right now only softlockup has own taint flag. Let's generalize it. > > This patch renames TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP into TAINT_LOCKUP at sets it for:
Please search 'This patch' in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> - softlockup > - hardlockup > - RCU stalls > - stuck in workqueues > - detected task hung
This does too many things at once and wants to be split in pieces:
1) Change the TAINT flag and update documentation
2) Add the tainting to the places which are not yet covered
Thanks,
tglx
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