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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2007-12-20 15:01:17 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-12-20 15:01:17 +0100
commit2c3b20e91fe3a083c5d9bc79437c485866ea251c (patch)
tree6d2b9e00efc89452863e71a8712398aeee3eccdd /kernel
parent67e2be02328b9a61a9c799fbdd4ec94d7da0c323 (diff)
downloadlinux-2c3b20e91fe3a083c5d9bc79437c485866ea251c.tar.bz2
debug: add end-of-oops marker
Right now it's nearly impossible for parsers that collect kernel crashes from logs or emails (such as www.kerneloops.org) to detect the end-of-oops condition. In addition, it's not currently possible to detect whether or not 2 oopses that look alike are actually the same oops reported twice, or are truly two unique oopses. This patch adds an end-of-oops marker, and makes the end marker include a very simple 64-bit random ID to be able to detect duplicate reports. Normally, this ID is calculated as a late_initcall() (in the hope that at that time there is enough entropy to get a unique enough ID); however for early oopses the oops_exit() function needs to generate the ID on the fly. We do this all at the _end_ of an oops printout, so this does not impact our ability to get the most important portions of a crash out to the console first. [ Sidenote: the already existing oopses-since-bootup counter we print during crashes serves as the differentiator between multiple oopses that trigger during the same bootup. ] Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Artificially injected very early crashes as well, as expected they result in this constant ID after multiple bootups: ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- because the random pools are still all zero. But it all still works fine and causes no additional problems (which is the main goal of instrumentation code). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 6f6e03e91595..da4d6bac270e 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
int panic_on_oops;
int tainted;
@@ -266,12 +267,29 @@ void oops_enter(void)
}
/*
+ * 64-bit random ID for oopses:
+ */
+static u64 oops_id;
+
+static int init_oops_id(void)
+{
+ if (!oops_id)
+ get_random_bytes(&oops_id, sizeof(oops_id));
+
+ return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(init_oops_id);
+
+/*
* Called when the architecture exits its oops handler, after printing
* everything.
*/
void oops_exit(void)
{
do_oops_enter_exit();
+ init_oops_id();
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "---[ end trace %016llx ]---\n",
+ (unsigned long long)oops_id);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR