CrashKill/WorkWeek2012/Breakpad

Ted walk-through of Breakpad

• http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/wiki/GettingStartedWithBreakpad
• Working on version to spit out JSON - better data format. Breakpad work done, Socorro work blocked on Metrics (Metrics stores all the data). They were concerned about having the capacity to save this type of data - requires more disk space. What do we do with the old data - migrate it? Not on Metrics short-term plan.
• Breakpad has some code to do exploitability announces.
• How much development is going into breakpad - our side, Ted, Ben, Jim D. On Google side, nobody on full team. Chrome team uses it so they will fix stuff.
• Any other people other than Google and us using Breakpad significantly - Foul, Spotify.
• Hooking a new product up to the crash reporter
  • Client side bits are really easy
  • Need some tweaks for B2G
  • Easy to get it hooked up
  • Submitting crash reports also easy
  • More involved pieces on the Socorro side
  • What info is in the mini dump that we don't extract right now
    • We have the register state of every thread
    • Just gives you more state info about what was going on
    • On Linux there is a bunch of info we don't expose - mappings, CPU info, stuff like that
• Uploading symbols
  • Many things are automated
  • Uploading symbols for Flash is not automated - manual process
  • If we can automate that piece and have Adobe do it automatically - some bugs logged for this.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad:Symbols
  • bug 754837
  • bug 754240
  • bug 732485
  • bug 753470