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Commit bb20698d authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Document kernel taint flags properly 



This fills in the documentation for all of the current kernel taint
flags, and fixes the number for TAINT_CRAP, which was incorrectly
described.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent e946217e

Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt

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   2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.

       Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.

   4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.

 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.

   8 - A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.

  16 - A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.

  32 - A bad page was discovered on the system.

  64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted".  This

       could be because they are running software that directly modifies

       the hardware, or for other reasons.

 128 - The system has died.

 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user

        instead of using the one provided by the hardware.

 512 - A kernel warning has occurred.

1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.