From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030762AbXDPP2l (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:28:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030760AbXDPP2l (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:28:41 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:60927 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030762AbXDPP2j (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:28:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:30:11 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Pavel Emelianov Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Report that kernel is tainted if there were an OOPS before Message-Id: <20070416083011.9ac0a9d7.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <46234E9E.6080107@sw.ru> References: <46234E9E.6080107@sw.ru> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:23:26 +0400 Pavel Emelianov wrote: > If the kernel OOPS-ed or BUG-ed then it probably should > considered as tainted. Use die_counter introduced by many > architectures to determine whether or not the kernel died. > > This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the > calltrace seen via SysRq-P. argh, attachment... + * 'D' - An OOPS has hapened. happened. You also need to update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***