[PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Mon Mar 22 06:10:43 EST 2010


Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> writes:

> WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
> are then worked-around.  These bugs do not affect the stability of the
> kernel and should not set the usual TAINT_WARN flag.  To allow for
> this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint
> flag as argument.
>
> Architectures that implement warnings using trap instructions instead
> of calls to warn_slowpath_*() must now implement __WARN_TAINT(taint)
> instead of __WARN().

I guess this should enforce that at least some taint flag is set?
(e.g. with a BUILD_BUG_ON)

-Andi

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