From: Randy Dunlap Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~update-doc-oops-tracingtxt-for-taint_user Documentation/oops-tracing.txt --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~update-doc-oops-tracingtxt-for-taint_user +++ a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ characters, each representing a particul 6: 'B' if a page-release function has found a bad page reference or some unexpected page flags. + 7: 'U' if a user specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, + ' ' otherwise. + 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 _