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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst index 7d80e8c307d1..f92551539e8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ name of the command ('Comm:') that triggered the event:: You'll find a 'Not tainted: ' there if the kernel was not tainted at the time of the event; if it was, then it will print 'Tainted: ' and characters -either letters or blanks. In above example it looks like this:: +either letters or blanks. In the example above it looks like this:: Tainted: P W O @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ At runtime, you can query the tainted state by reading tainted; any other number indicates the reasons why it is. The easiest way to decode that number is the script ``tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint``, which your distribution might ship as part of a package called ``linux-tools`` or -``kernel-tools``; if it doesn't you can download the script from +``kernel-tools``; if it doesn't, you can download the script from `git.kernel.org <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint>`_ and execute it with ``sh kernel-chktaint``, which would print something like this on the machine that had the statements in the logs that were quoted earlier:: @@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting 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. |