Commit b48ccb09 authored Apr 23, 2009 by Ingo Molnar

locking: clarify kernel-taint warning message



Andi Kleen reported this message triggering on non-lockdep kernels:

   Disabling lockdep due to kernel taint

Clarify the message to say 'lock debugging' - debug_locks_off()
turns off all things lock debugging, not just lockdep.

[ Impact: change kernel warning message text ]

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 0300e7f1

kernel/panic.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ void add_taint(unsigned flag)
		* post-warning case.
		*/
		if (flag != TAINT_CRAP && flag != TAINT_WARN && __debug_locks_off())
		printk(KERN_WARNING "Disabling lockdep due to kernel taint\n");
		printk(KERN_WARNING "Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n");

		set_bit(flag, &tainted_mask);
		}