From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:50:49 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:47:41 +1100 Message-ID: <25093.1132876061@ocs3.ocs.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Jones , Alistair John Strachan , Con Kolivas , Kenneth W , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- 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