[PATCH] taint on lockdep warning with new TAINT_LOCKDEP

This helps when writing automated tests, since they can fail the test if the kernel was tainted instead of manually scraping dmesg for interesting strings. Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov --- include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 31 +++ kernel

[PATCH] taint on lockdep warning with new TAINT_LOCKDEP

Hi Peter and Ingo, Something like this seems like it would be a useful addition. I've heard a few people mention that lockdep taints the kernel and even seen it come up in mailing list posts, but this does not appear to be the case. This patch adds a new taint flag. I'm using a similar patch on 3

kernel BUG at /src/linux-bcache/kernel/smpboot.c:134!

Hi Thomas and everyone else, I saw in a thread last year you fixed a similar (or same?) bug as the subject[1]. However I can still reproduce this issue using kernels that have your patch in them. I filed a bug with qemu[2] containing a repro (just boot a VM with multiple CPUs and init=/sbin/reboot

Re: [PATCH] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

Thanks, this is now in our development branch. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Stefan Bader wrote: > commit a664d0f05a2ec02c8f042db536d84d15d6e19e81 > bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode > > added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being > attached it is also

[tip:perf/core] ring-buffer: Add a 'dropped events' counter

Commit-ID: 884bfe89a462fcc85c8abd96171519cf2fe70929 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/884bfe89a462fcc85c8abd96171519cf2fe70929 Author: Slava Pestov AuthorDate: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:23:58 -0700 Committer: Steven Rostedt CommitDate: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:45:27 -0400 ring-buffer: Add a