MINOR: debug: place a magic pattern at the beginning of post_mortem
In order to ease finding of the post_mortem struct in core dumps, let's make it start with a recognizable pattern of exactly 32 chars (to preserve alignment): "POST-MORTEM STARTS HERE+7654321\0" It can then be found like this from gdb: (gdb) find 0x000000012345678, 0x0000000100000000, 'P','O','S','T','-','M','O','R','T','E','M' 0xcfd300 <post_mortem> 1 pattern found. Or easier with any other more practical tool (who as ever used "find" in gdb, given that it cannot iterate over maps and is 100% useless?).
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@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct post_mortem_component {
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struct post_mortem {
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/* platform-specific information */
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char post_mortem_magic[32]; // "POST-MORTEM STARTS HERE+7654321\0"
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struct {
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struct utsname utsname; // OS name+ver+arch+hostname
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char hw_vendor[64]; // hardware/hypervisor vendor when known
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@ -2511,6 +2512,10 @@ static void feed_post_mortem_linux()
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static int feed_post_mortem()
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{
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/* write an easily identifiable magic at the beginning of the struct */
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strncpy(post_mortem.post_mortem_magic,
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"POST-MORTEM STARTS HERE+7654321\0",
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sizeof(post_mortem.post_mortem_magic));
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/* kernel type, version and arch */
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uname(&post_mortem.platform.utsname);
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