[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] e1000e: Taint a HW lockup

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Chris Wilson (2017-12-05 18:00:00)
> When we see an e1000e HW lockup in CI, it is typically fatal with the
> hang repeating until the host is forcibly rebooted. Speed up that
> process by tainting the kernel, which CI can trivially detect (and is
> being used to detect similarly fatal CI conditions) and reboot soon
> after.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela at intel.com>

I'm not concerned on selling this to e1000e, but if it helps improving
CI robustness, then topic/core-for-CI. Or maybe we should create a new
topic, Daniel? topic/taints-for-CI?
-Chris