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Commit bb20698d46bac1b2b48cfe1fcb33e54ac885946a

Authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Exists in master and in 7 other branches imx_3.0.35_4.1.0, imx_3.10.17_1.0.1_ga, imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga

Document kernel taint flags properly 

This fills in the documentation for all of the current kernel taint
flags, and fixes the number for TAINT_CRAP, which was incorrectly
described.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
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363 363 Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
364 364 can be ORed together:
365 365  
366   - 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
367   - includes modules with no license.
368   - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
369   - 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
370   - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
371   - 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
372   - 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
  366 + 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
  367 + includes modules with no license.
  368 + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
  369 + 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
  370 + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
  371 + 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
  372 + 8 - A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.
  373 + 16 - A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.
  374 + 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system.
  375 + 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This
  376 + could be because they are running software that directly modifies
  377 + the hardware, or for other reasons.
  378 + 128 - The system has died.
  379 + 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user
  380 + instead of using the one provided by the hardware.
  381 + 512 - A kernel warning has occurred.
  382 +1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.