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

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Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:41:23 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.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

Zach Brown wrote:
>>> 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.

there already is a per-boot UUID afaik, just a matter of printing that..
I'll look into that, but it does add extra info to the oops print

>  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.

this is there already and taken care of ;)
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