Tainted: G - What does this kernel message mean?

moxfan

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Aug 28, 2013
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Getting this warning / error twice each second, sending the kern.log and messages files in /var/log on the Proxmox node into over-drive. Is it signalling a potential hardware failure?

Code:
/var/log/kern.log
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Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: WARNING: at kernel/time.c:638 nsec_to_clock_t+0x45/0x50() (Tainted: G        WC ---------------  T)
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: Hardware name: System Product Name
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: Modules linked in: vzethdev vznetdev pio_nfs pio_direct pfmt_raw pfmt_ploop1 ploop simfs vzrst vzcpt nfs fscache vzmon ip6t_REJECT ip6table_mangle ip6table_filter ip6_tables nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp xt_state xt_length xt_hl xt_tcpmss xt_TCPMSS iptable_mangle iptable_filter xt_multiport xt_limit ipt_LOG xt_DSCP xt_dscp ipt_REJECT xt_owner ipt_REDIRECT xt_recent vzdquota vzdev vhost_net tun macvtap macvlan kvm_intel kvm vzevent ib_iser rdma_cm ib_addr iw_cm ib_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi fuse nfsd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd sunrpc ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_conntrack ip_tables dummy ipv6 snd_pcsp i915 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer drm_kms_helper snd drm i2c_i801 parport_pc soundcore i2c_algo_bit iTCO_wdt serio_raw i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support parport shpchp video output ext3 mbcache jbd btrfs(T) lzo_compress lzo_decompress zlib_deflate sg ahci r8169 mii xhci_hcd [last unloaded: ploop]
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: Pid: 273145, comm: ftdc veid: 100 Tainted: G        WC ---------------  T 2.6.32-23-pve #1
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8106f667>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xe0
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8106f6da>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff810775b5>] ? nsec_to_clock_t+0x45/0x50
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8105e78b>] ? cpu_cgroup_proc_stat+0x2cb/0x3a0
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff810fca17>] ? fairsched_show_stat+0x37/0x60
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff81214b17>] ? show_stat+0x97/0x650
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff811c4600>] ? single_release+0x0/0x40
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8120ae00>] ? proc_reg_open+0x0/0x160
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8119b657>] ? __dentry_open.isra.10+0x137/0x350
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8119b964>] ? nameidata_to_filp+0x44/0x60
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff811c4de6>] ? seq_read+0x116/0x370
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8120b5eb>] ? proc_reg_read+0x7b/0xc0
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8119ef8e>] ? vfs_read+0x9e/0x190
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8119f0ca>] ? sys_read+0x4a/0x90
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: [<ffffffff8100b182>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Jul 21 00:26:14 prox1 kernel: ---[ end trace 4f12ca60f156dcd7 ]---
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