Automated kernel crash reporting system

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 04 March 2010 8:50:56 am sean connolly wrote:
> Hi Dan, 
> 
> Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be 
caused by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run 
before it reports, or having it only run with -CURRENTmight be useful.

That's not quite true.  Many hardware failure-type panics look the same (a 
machine check exception panic, an NMI due to a hardware error (this has a 
unique panic message), or panics in pmap_remove*() on x86 cover the vast 
majority of them).  My previous employer actually did track panics using a 
script like crashinfo, and I was able to categorize known panics by looking 
for signatures in stack backtraces or other panic messages.

> ________________________________
> From: jhell <jhell at DataIX.net>
> To: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com>
> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>; freebsd-
questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 8:06:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:09, dan.naumov@ wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I noticed the following on the FreeBSD website:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html#p-autoreport Has
> > there been any progress/work done on the automated kernel crash
> > reporting system? The current ways of enabling and gathering the
> > information required by developers for investigating panics and
> > similar issues are unintuitive and user-hostile to say the least and
> > anything to automate the process would be a very welcome addition.
> >
> >
> > - Sincerely,
> > Dan Naumov
> >
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I am assuming that the output of crashinfo_enable="YES" is not what you 
> are talking about is it ? are you aware of it ?
> 
> The info contained in the crashinfo.txt.N is pretty informative for 
> developers, maybe your talking about another way of submitting it ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> 
>   jhell
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John Baldwin