[PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER
authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:58:12 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:10:15 +0000 (17:10 -0800)
Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

index 2503404ae5c26bce481d56daecb008588e86102e..ea55ea8bc8ef0c32de234e612adf742d72214167 100644 (file)
@@ -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
      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
 debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
 occurred.  Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is