On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:27:27AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
>
> Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an
> unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
This made my brain itch a little until I got to the bottom of the
patch and saw the new definition of add_taint. Perhaps instead of
false/true, we have LOCKDEP_LIVES/LOCKDEP_DIES or similar defines
to make it clearer what's actually happening without having to
go read the function ?
> + * If something bad has gone wrong, you'll want @lockdebug_ok = false, but
> for
> + * some notewortht-but-not-corrupting cases, it can be set to true.
> + */
'noteworthy'
Dave
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