livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH
authorSeth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0600)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:40:48 +0000 (15:40 +0100)
commitc5f4546593e9911800f0926c1090959b58bc5c93
tree62867df3a453f6aa07bbb39f26659f0d9d430dd4
parent97bf6af1f928216fd6c5a66e8a57bfa95a659672
livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH

This adds a new taint flag to indicate when the kernel or a kernel
module has been live patched.  This will provide a clean indication in
bug reports that live patching was used.

Additionally, if the crash occurs in a live patched function, the live
patch module will appear beside the patched function in the backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
include/linux/kernel.h
kernel/panic.c