Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

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.

Hugh

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