linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update tiny script for number of taint flags

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Message-ID: <20251015164309.GA3901471@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:43:09 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update tiny script for number of
 taint flags

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 03:57:15PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/14/25 5:14 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:15:38PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> Account for 2 new taint flags being added by increasing the number of
> >> bits handled by the tiny show-tainted-flags example script.
> > 
> > Maybe add a comment near the array about this :\
> 
> Something like this?
> 
> 
> --- linux-next-20251014.orig/kernel/panic.c
> +++ linux-next-20251014/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
>  /*
>   * TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module
>   * is being removed anyway.
> + *
> + * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT,
> + * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and
> + * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its
> + * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of
> + * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.
>   */
>  const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
>  	TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE,		'P', 'G', true),

Yeah, that looks great

Thanks,
Jason