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    debug: add end-of-oops marker · 2c3b20e9
    Arjan van de Ven authored
    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: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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