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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 23e6dde7eea6..7f60dfe642ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise. + 8: 'D' if the kernel has died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG. + 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 |