From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:36:42 +0000 (+0100) Subject: panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc1~434^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=commitdiff_plain;h=92946bc72f2e74c3281b7fc12be9704d455fb3ed panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') This taint flag will initially be used when warning about invalid ACPI DMAR tables. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 069fab3..6fe9001 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. + 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform + firmware (BIOS or similar). + 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 diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 7f07074..7f2f7b3 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ extern enum system_states { #define TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE 8 #define TAINT_WARN 9 #define TAINT_CRAP 10 +#define TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND 11 extern void dump_stack(void) __cold; diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 8b821bc..dbe13db 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = { { TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, 'A', ' ' }, { TAINT_WARN, 'W', ' ' }, { TAINT_CRAP, 'C', ' ' }, + { TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 'I', ' ' }, }; /** @@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = { * 'A' - ACPI table overridden. * 'W' - Taint on warning. * 'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded. + * 'I' - Working around severe firmware bug. * * The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted(). */