Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-15T18:23:14Z

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and warning
>> reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas;
>
> A few comments:
>
> 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.

>
> Reports against 2.6.X-rcY-mmZ are listed in the same category as reports
> against 2.6.X-rcY. To distinguish -mm reports from vanilla reports, one
> has to look into the details of each bug entry.¹

finding what exact kernel version an oops is from is... surprisingly hard.
And to be honest, bugs against -mm are still very interesting, since they'll be
the next mainline after all

>
> A general weakness is that it is ultimately impossible to know whether a
> report was against an unpatched kernel, unless one drills down to the
> individual mailinglist threads.

for the same reason patched kernels are relevant. And if someone has a super weirdo kernel,
well, as long as we get enough bug data it'll be way down in the noise.

> Reports about tainted kernels have arguably less value. It would be
> good to hide such reports until a report of the same oops in an
> untainted kernel was found.
That's half of what is done right now; they're not hidden though, just very clearly marked.