From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Con Kolivas Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:50:01 +1100 References: <25093.1132876061@ocs3.ocs.com.au> In-Reply-To: <25093.1132876061@ocs3.ocs.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511251050.02833.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Keith Owens Cc: Hugh Dickins , Dave Jones , Alistair John Strachan , Kenneth W , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47, Keith Owens wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT), > > Hugh Dickins wrote: > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > >> > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote: > >> > > Chen, Kenneth W writes: > >> > > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before? On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64. > >> > > > > >> > > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3 > >> > > > > >> > > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3 > >> > > > >> > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > >> > > > >> > > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules > >> > > linked in. > >> > > >> > AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary > >> > modules. > >> > >> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people. > >> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over > >> the last few months). > >> > >> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of > >> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ? > > > >Please, please do: it's insane as is. But I've CC'ed Keith, > >we sometimes find the kernel does things so to suit ksymoops. > > 'G' is not one of mine, I find it annoying as well. Would anyone object to changing it so that tainted only means Proprietary taint and use a different keyword for GPL tainting such as "Corrupted"? Con -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org