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authorPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>2007-07-17 07:03:42 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 13:23:02 -0400
commitbcdcd8e725b923ad7c0de809680d5d5658a7bf8c (patch)
treef8fe86531df3bd96c0d8fd2d7a8fb1a6639261db /include/linux
parent74489a91dd43aecd638709d34a2f58b91cfda5cf (diff)
Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 7a4852505914..1eb9cde550c4 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ extern enum system_states {
210#define TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK (1<<4) 210#define TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK (1<<4)
211#define TAINT_BAD_PAGE (1<<5) 211#define TAINT_BAD_PAGE (1<<5)
212#define TAINT_USER (1<<6) 212#define TAINT_USER (1<<6)
213#define TAINT_DIE (1<<7)
213 214
214extern void dump_stack(void); 215extern void dump_stack(void);
215 216