Re: [PATCH] sched/core: add taint on "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"

From	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] sched/core: add taint on "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"
Date	2016-07-29 15:10 +0200
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> writes:
> > Seeing this, it occurs to me that we should probably add a taint here:
> 
> Taint has traditionally meant "the user did something unsupported, take
> the bug report with a grain of salt".  Such as force removing a module.

We have changed the meaning of taint quite some time ago. It also denotes
e.g. that there was a bug, warning etc. So it's not necessarily 'user did
something wrong'.

It's very helpful to see that there was already a warnon/bug before the
backtrace you get from the reporter.

Thanks,

	tglx

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Re: [PATCH] sched/core: add taint on "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> - 2016-07-29 03:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] sched/core: add taint on "BUG: sleeping function called  from invalid context" Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> - 2016-07-29 08:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] sched/core: add taint on "BUG: sleeping function called  from invalid context" Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-07-29 15:10 +0200

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