Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 23:40:27 EST


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before? On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
> > >
> > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > >
> > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked in.
>
> AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary modules.


The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
(I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
the last few months).

Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ?

Dave

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