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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-17 15:01:07 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-29 15:03:49 -0700
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Document kernel taint flags properly
This fills in the documentation for all of the current kernel taint flags, and fixes the number for TAINT_CRAP, which was incorrectly described. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index bde799e06598..a4ccdd1981cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -363,11 +363,21 @@ tainted:
Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
can be ORed together:
- 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
- includes modules with no license.
- Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
- 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
- Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
- 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
- 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
+ 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
+ includes modules with no license.
+ Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
+ 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
+ Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
+ 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
+ 8 - A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.
+ 16 - A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.
+ 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system.
+ 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This
+ could be because they are running software that directly modifies
+ the hardware, or for other reasons.
+ 128 - The system has died.
+ 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user
+ instead of using the one provided by the hardware.
+ 512 - A kernel warning has occurred.
+1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.