Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep,rtmutex,bug: Show taint flags on error

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 17 2011 - 03:49:07 EST


On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 21:52 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:36:55AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Currently lock debugging is disabled when the kernel is tainted, with
> > a few exceptions. It is already recognised that this can be useful
> > for staging modules (TAINT_CRAP), but that also goes for out-of-tree
> > modules (TAINT_OOT_MODULE) so long as core kernel developers don't
> > have to spend time debugging them. Also, there are several reasons
> > for tainting that are unlikely to introduce false locking bug reports
> > (e.g. TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND).



> > Instead of disabling lock debugging, show the taint flags in all
> > lockdep and rtmutex-debug error messages.


So this is two patches in one. I took the last part, the printing of the
taint flags thing, not the first part.

I did a small patch adding TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND to the list of
TAINTS that shouldn't disable lockdep.

As for OOT_MODULE, with staging the only reason not to merge a module is
it being the wrong license and I really can't be arsed about OOT stuff
anyway, so no.
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