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| author | Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2007-07-17 04:03:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -0700 |
| commit | bcdcd8e725b923ad7c0de809680d5d5658a7bf8c (patch) | |
| tree | f8fe86531df3bd96c0d8fd2d7a8fb1a6639261db /include/linux | |
| parent | 74489a91dd43aecd638709d34a2f58b91cfda5cf (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 7a485250591..1eb9cde550c 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ extern enum system_states { #define TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK (1<<4) #define TAINT_BAD_PAGE (1<<5) #define TAINT_USER (1<<6) +#define TAINT_DIE (1<<7) extern void dump_stack(void); |