linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT

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Message-Id: <20100322224733.9cf93a0a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:47:33 -0400
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed
 from TAINT_WARN

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:05:40 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:

> 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().

When you say they "must now implement", I assume that you mean that
they _do_ now implement, and that no additional architecture work is
needed.

> The architecture-specific changes here are untested and need to be
> reviewed by architecture maintainers.

That would be nice.
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