linux-kernel - Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

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Message-ID: <4766BF12.6050505@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:25:22 -0800
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, protasnb@...il.com
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week


>> Report counts may be too high due to duplicate recognition of the very
>> same report.¹
> 
> this is true however it's .. a hard issue. It's really hard to
> distinguish a duplicate report from
> two reports of the same bug.

Can we hack some data in to oops output to help?  Say a giant per-boot
anonymous random number (yeah, I know, harder than it sounds) and then
an incrementing oops counter.  That'd also let you discover that the
latter oopses in a chain of oopses might be fall-out from the head of
the chain.

- z
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