Commit a631694a authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER

Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 63967fa9
...@@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. ...@@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
6: 'B' if a page-release function has found a bad page reference or 6: 'B' if a page-release function has found a bad page reference or
some unexpected page flags. some unexpected page flags.
7: 'U' if a user specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set,
' ' otherwise.
7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the
Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise.
The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is
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