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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel: set taint flag 'L' at any kind of lockup
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Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> writes:
> Any lockup or stall notifies about unexpected lack of progress.
> It's better to know about them for further problem investigations.
>
> Right now only softlockup has own taint flag. Let's generalize it.
>
> This patch renames TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP into TAINT_LOCKUP at sets it for:

Please search 'This patch' in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

> - softlockup
> - hardlockup
> - RCU stalls
> - stuck in workqueues
> - detected task hung

This does too many things at once and wants to be split in pieces:

  1) Change the TAINT flag and update documentation

  2) Add the tainting to the places which are not yet covered

Thanks,

        tglx