X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Foops-tracing.txt;h=7d5b60dea551daacec4cc81006678957a38f1795;hb=d3130f0e30745b406af233897a27834eb5285f45;hp=05960f8a748e6169822b1954530150502135cde0;hpb=f1b8c63ef404367c60dc9b4f68dec33cae3c707b;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 05960f8a748..7d5b60dea55 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well. -(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save - data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of - these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply - them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and - oops+smram. +(3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt), + extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg + gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt. Full Information @@ -236,6 +234,9 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 6: 'B' if a page-release function has found a bad page reference or some unexpected page flags. + 7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the + Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is