linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] taint on lockdep warning with new TAINT

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Message-Id: <20150130154403.fd0dce1675598e9755f7404b@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:44:03 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Slava Pestov <sp@...era.io>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Slava Pestov <sp@...erainc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] taint on lockdep warning with new TAINT_LOCKDEP

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:50:26 -0800 Slava Pestov <sp@...era.io> wrote:

> This helps when writing automated tests, since they can fail the
> test if the kernel was tainted instead of manually scraping dmesg
> for interesting strings.

Seems sane.  It wouldn't hurt to mention this in
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt
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