vinit dhatrak wrote: >> my questions are: >> 1. what does "Not tainted" mean? >> 2. I grep the kernel and I find the above message comes from do_ade in >> unaligned.c, If I guess correctly. >> but from the call trace I cannot find out who call it. >> who and how kernel pass the information to do_ade? >> 3. as far as i know, inode is the data structure we used to record file. >> From what information in the inode I can find out the file name the >> writeback_inodes try to write? >> appreciate your help, >> miloody >> > > I can answer your first question. Loading a proprietary or > non-GPL-compatible module will 'taint' the running kernel—meaning that > any problems or bugs experienced will be less likely to be > investigated by the maintainers. See this "Tainted Kernel" document > from Novell. > http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3582750&sliceId=1 > > In your case, it seems that your kernel is not tainted by any external code. > Also, what you see as call trace is actually just stack dump, not > exactly a backtrace. Hi I also got similar panic in my board (ben nanonote). the process is "Process ksoftirqd/0" Q: how to get the backtrace? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
