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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-12-31 08:31:57 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-12-31 08:31:57 +0100
commita9de18eb761f7c1c860964b2e5addc1a35c7e861 (patch)
tree886e75fdfd09690cd262ca69cb7f5d1d42b48602 /Documentation/sysctl
parentb2aaf8f74cdc84a9182f6cabf198b7763bcb9d40 (diff)
parent6a94cb73064c952255336cc57731904174b2c58f (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h kernel/fork.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt23
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index e1ff0d920a5c..a4ccdd1981cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -363,10 +363,21 @@ tainted:
Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
can be ORed together:
- 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
- includes modules with no license.
- Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
- 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
- Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
- 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
+ 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
+ includes modules with no license.
+ Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
+ 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
+ Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
+ 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
+ 8 - A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.
+ 16 - A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.
+ 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system.
+ 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This
+ could be because they are running software that directly modifies
+ the hardware, or for other reasons.
+ 128 - The system has died.
+ 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user
+ instead of using the one provided by the hardware.
+ 512 - A kernel warning has occurred.
+1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.