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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-17 18:01:07 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-29 18:03:49 -0400
commitbb20698d46bac1b2b48cfe1fcb33e54ac885946a (patch)
treeac071e121a959babfe88d6343b415aaf0ff31106 /Documentation/sysctl
parente946217e4fdaa67681bbabfa8e6b18641921f750 (diff)
Document kernel taint flags properly
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index bde799e06598..a4ccdd1981cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -363,11 +363,21 @@ tainted:
363Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which 363Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
364can be ORed together: 364can be ORed together:
365 365
366 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this 366 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
367 includes modules with no license. 367 includes modules with no license.
368 Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. 368 Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
369 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. 369 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
370 Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. 370 Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
371 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. 371 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
372 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. 372 8 - A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.
373 16 - A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.
374 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system.
375 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This
376 could be because they are running software that directly modifies
377 the hardware, or for other reasons.
378 128 - The system has died.
379 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user
380 instead of using the one provided by the hardware.
381 512 - A kernel warning has occurred.
3821024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
373 383