Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936726AbXLQV6o (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:58:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757907AbXLQV6d (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:58:33 -0500 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:49238 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761351AbXLQV6c (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:58:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:58:24 -0500 From: Theodore Tso To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , protasnb@gmail.com Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week Message-ID: <20071217215824.GI7070@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , protasnb@gmail.com References: <4762CF8C.90808@linux.intel.com> <20071217172331.GA23070@elte.hu> <20071217133631.5bbc5842@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071217133631.5bbc5842@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1017 Lines: 24 On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:36:31PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Subject: [patch] terminate the oops printing with a defined string/uuid > From: Arjan van de Ven > > Right now, it's hard for automated tools to determine when an oops has > ended; there's no clear marker for this. In addition, there's no good > way to find out if an oops is unique. Sometimes it's the same oops > just reported multiple times, while other times it's a different > instance of the crash with the same signature. Printing the boot UUID > as part of the end string resolves this ambiguity. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven > CC: Ted Ts'o Looks good to me! Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/