Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1: Oops and Gnome desktop freezes

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:35:11 -0400 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:12:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>   > > EIP:    0060:[<c014c469>]    Tainted: G      D VLI
>  > 
>  > For some reason all oopses (and boy there are a lot of them) are being
>  > described as tainted.
> 
> What's "D" though ?

Pretty flattering, if it's on a scale of A-F.

>  grep -i taint broken-out/* doesn't show
> -mm adding any new flags, and I don't see it present in mainline.

report-that-kernel-is-tainted-if-there-were-an-oops-before.patch:

+  8: 'D' if a kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG
+      before, ' ' otherwise. This is useful when seeing the calltrace
+      from SysRq-P output.

I suspect that patch has gone bad and it's reporting 'D' for the very first
oops, which it shouldn't do.

But I haven't checked that theory.
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