Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Thu Nov 24 2005 - 02:50:09 EST


On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> > > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before? On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
> > > >
> > > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > > >
> > > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked in.
> >
> > AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary modules.
>
> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
> the last few months).
>
> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ?

Please, please do: it's insane as is. But I've CC'ed Keith,
we sometimes find the kernel does things so to suit ksymoops.

Hugh
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