Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 04:40, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:35:15PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>  > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:24, Con Kolivas wrote:
>  > > Chen, Kenneth W writes:
>  > > > Has people seen this BUG_ON before?  On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
>  > > >
>  > > > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
>  > > >
>  > > > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
>  > >
>  > >                        ^^^^^^^^^^
>  > >
>  > > Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked
>  > > in.
>  >
>  > AFAIK "G" means all loaded modules are GPL, P is for proprietary
>  > modules.
>
> The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
> (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
>  the last few months).
>
> Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
> the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ?

I don't understand the reasons for making the tainted string all the same 
length anyway. Why not just remove all the extra spaces?

Unless you know what you're looking for, I can assure you that:

Tainted: G    B SOMEOTHERTEXT

Is not intuitively readable (which text does B belong to?).

Tainted:    B SOMEOTHERTEXT

Is better, but still not very good. Why not drop the spaces?

3rd party parsing purposes?

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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