Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

Theodore Tso
2007-12-17T21:58:44Z

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 <arjan@linux.intel.com>
>
> 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 <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> CC: Ted Ts'o <tytso@thunk.org>

Looks good to me!

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

- Ted