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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 7f60dfe642c..e3155995ddd 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -253,6 +253,21 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 8: 'D' if the kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG. + 9: 'A' if the ACPI table has been overridden. + + 10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel. + (Though some warnings may set more specific taint flags.) + + 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. + + 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform + firmware (BIOS or similar). + + 13: 'O' if an externally-built ("out-of-tree") module has been loaded. + + 14: 'E' if an unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting + module signature. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is |