From 95b570c9cef3b12356454c7112571b7e406b4b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nur Hussein <nurhussein@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:58:39 -0700
Subject: Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)
The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and
whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set. This is useful to
know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag
in the taint state.
This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition.
These archs are:
1. s390
2. superh
3. avr32
4. parisc
The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list
in this email to alert them to the situation.
The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the
new flag.
Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein <nurhussein@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
(limited to 'include/linux')
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index cd6d02cf854d..28caa53dd1f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ extern enum system_states {
#define TAINT_USER (1<<6)
#define TAINT_DIE (1<<7)
#define TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE (1<<8)
+#define TAINT_WARN (1<<9)
extern void dump_stack(void) __cold;
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