From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760948Ab2BJXOh (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:14:37 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:35084 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755257Ab2BJWmU (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:42:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120210222949.565921192@clark.kroah.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.51-15.1 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:10 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ben Hutchings , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar Subject: [patch 51/86] lockdep, bug: Exclude TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND from disabling lockdep In-Reply-To: <20120210223514.GA24190@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra commit df754e6af2f237a6c020c0daff55a1a609338e31 upstream. It's unlikely that TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND causes false lockdep messages, so do not disable lockdep in that case. We still want to keep lockdep disabled in the TAINT_OOT_MODULE case: - bin-only modules can cause various instabilities in their and in unrelated kernel code - they are impossible to debug for kernel developers - they also typically do not have the copyright license permission to link to the GPL-ed lockdep code. Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xopopjjens57r0i13qnyh2yo@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/panic.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -240,8 +240,16 @@ void add_taint(unsigned flag) * Also we want to keep up lockdep for staging development and * post-warning case. */ - if (flag != TAINT_CRAP && flag != TAINT_WARN && __debug_locks_off()) - printk(KERN_WARNING "Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n"); + switch (flag) { + case TAINT_CRAP: + case TAINT_WARN: + case TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND: + break; + + default: + if (__debug_locks_off()) + printk(KERN_WARNING "Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n"); + } set_bit(flag, &tainted_mask); }