[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Report that kernel is tainted if there were an OOPS before

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:23:26 +0400 Pavel Emelianov wrote:

> If the kernel OOPS-ed or BUG-ed then it probably should
> considered as tainted. Use die_counter introduced by many
> architectures to determine whether or not the kernel died.
> 
> This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
> calltrace seen via SysRq-P.

argh, attachment...

+ *  'D' - An OOPS has hapened.

                      happened.


You also need to update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt.

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~Randy
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