linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded.

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Message-Id: <20090622075346.e9489feb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:53:46 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>,
	Jeffrey B Arnold <jbarnold@...lice.com>,
	"Waseem S. Daher" <wdaher@...lice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update
 has been loaded.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > But without ksplice patches you cannot ksplice, right? That is, there is
> > a non trivial patch to the kernel to make this happen afaik. If distros
> > ship that, then they can add this taint flag as well. No need to burden
> > mainline with any of that until it ksplice proper makes it in.
> 
> No, Ksplice can patch completely unmodified upstream and distribution 
> kernels.
> 

Have the ksplice people considered using /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and
TAINT_USER?


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