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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst index 71e9184a9079..92a8a07f5c43 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ either letters or blanks. In above example it looks like this:: Tainted: P W O -The meaning of those characters is explained in the table below. In tis case +The meaning of those characters is explained in the table below. In this case the kernel got tainted earlier because a proprietary Module (``P``) was loaded, a warning occurred (``W``), and an externally-built module was loaded (``O``). To decode other letters use the table below. @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ this on the machine that had the statements in the logs that were quoted earlier * Proprietary module was loaded (#0) * Kernel issued warning (#9) * Externally-built ('out-of-tree') module was loaded (#12) - See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in the the Linux kernel or + See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in the Linux kernel or https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html for a more details explanation of the various taint flags. Raw taint value as int/string: 4609/'P W O ' @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Bit Log Number Reason that got the kernel tainted === === ====== ======================================================== 0 G/P 1 proprietary module was loaded 1 _/F 2 module was force loaded - 2 _/S 4 SMP kernel oops on an officially SMP incapable processor + 2 _/S 4 kernel running on an out of specification system 3 _/R 8 module was force unloaded 4 _/M 16 processor reported a Machine Check Exception (MCE) 5 _/B 32 bad page referenced or some unexpected page flags @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Bit Log Number Reason that got the kernel tainted 15 _/K 32768 kernel has been live patched 16 _/X 65536 auxiliary taint, defined for and used by distros 17 _/T 131072 kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin + 18 _/N 262144 an in-kernel test has been run === === ====== ======================================================== Note: The character ``_`` is representing a blank in this table to make reading @@ -116,10 +117,29 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting 1) ``F`` if any module was force loaded by ``insmod -f``, ``' '`` if all modules were loaded normally. - 2) ``S`` if the oops occurred on an SMP kernel running on hardware that - hasn't been certified as safe to run multiprocessor. - Currently this occurs only on various Athlons that are not - SMP capable. + 2) ``S`` if the kernel is running on a processor or system that is out of + specification: hardware has been put into an unsupported configuration, + therefore proper execution cannot be guaranteed. + Kernel will be tainted if, for example: + + - on x86: PAE is forced through forcepae on intel CPUs (such as Pentium M) + which do not report PAE but may have a functional implementation, an SMP + kernel is running on non officially capable SMP Athlon CPUs, MSRs are + being poked at from userspace. + - on arm: kernel running on certain CPUs (such as Keystone 2) without + having certain kernel features enabled. + - on arm64: there are mismatched hardware features between CPUs, the + bootloader has booted CPUs in different modes. + - certain drivers are being used on non supported architectures (such as + scsi/snic on something else than x86_64, scsi/ips on non + x86/x86_64/itanium, have broken firmware settings for the + irqchip/irq-gic on arm64 ...). + - x86/x86_64: Microcode late loading is dangerous and will result in + tainting the kernel. It requires that all CPUs rendezvous to make sure + the update happens when the system is as quiescent as possible. However, + a higher priority MCE/SMI/NMI can move control flow away from that + rendezvous and interrupt the update, which can be detrimental to the + machine. 3) ``R`` if a module was force unloaded by ``rmmod -f``, ``' '`` if all modules were unloaded normally. @@ -130,7 +150,7 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting 5) ``B`` If a page-release function has found a bad page reference or some unexpected page flags. This indicates a hardware problem or a kernel bug; there should be other information in the log indicating why this tainting - occured. + occurred. 6) ``U`` if a user or user application specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, ``' '`` otherwise. |