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Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS

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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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson  -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Pavel Emelianov 2007-07-17 04:03:42 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the
Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise.
8: 'D' if the kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG.
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