From 95b570c9cef3b12356454c7112571b7e406b4b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nur Hussein Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:58:39 -0700 Subject: Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set. This is useful to know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag in the taint state. This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition. These archs are: 1. s390 2. superh 3. avr32 4. parisc The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list in this email to alert them to the situation. The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the new flag. Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index cd6d02cf854..28caa53dd1f 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ extern enum system_states { #define TAINT_USER (1<<6) #define TAINT_DIE (1<<7) #define TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE (1<<8) +#define TAINT_WARN (1<<9) extern void dump_stack(void) __cold; -- cgit v1.2.3