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+"crash" ping
+============
+
+This ping is captured after the main Firefox process crashes, whether or not the crash report is submitted to crash-stats.mozilla.org. It includes non-identifying metadata about the crash.
+
+The environment block that is sent with this ping varies: if Firefox was running long enough to record the environment block before the crash, then the environment at the time of the crash will be recorded and ``hasCrashEnvironment`` will be true. If Firefox crashed before the environment was recorded, ``hasCrashEnvironment`` will be false and the recorded environment will be the environment at time of submission.
+
+The client ID is submitted with this ping.
+
+Structure:
+
+.. code-block:: js
+
+ {
+ version: 1,
+ type: "crash",
+ ... common ping data
+ clientId: <UUID>,
+ environment: { ... },
+ payload: {
+ crashDate: "YYYY-MM-DD",
+ sessionId: <UUID>, // may be missing for crashes that happen early
+ // in startup. Added in Firefox 48 with the
+ // intention of uplifting to Firefox 46
+ crashId: <UUID>, // Optional, ID of the associated crash
+ stackTraces: { ... }, // Optional, see below
+ metadata: { // Annotations saved while Firefox was running. See nsExceptionHandler.cpp for more information
+ ProductName: "Firefox",
+ ReleaseChannel: <channel>,
+ Version: <version number>,
+ BuildID: "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS",
+ AvailablePageFile: <size>, // Windows-only, available paging file
+ AvailablePhysicalMemory: <size>, // Windows-only, available physical memory
+ AvailableVirtualMemory: <size>, // Windows-only, available virtual memory
+ BlockedDllList: <list>, // Windows-only, see WindowsDllBlocklist.cpp for details
+ BlocklistInitFailed: 1, // Windows-only, present only if the DLL blocklist initialization failed
+ CrashTime: <time>, // Seconds since the Epoch
+ ContainsMemoryReport: 1, // Optional
+ EventLoopNestingLevel: <levels>, // Optional, present only if >0
+ IsGarbageCollecting: 1, // Optional, present only if set to 1
+ MozCrashReason: <reason>, // Optional, contains the string passed to MOZ_CRASH()
+ OOMAllocationSize: <size>, // Size of the allocation that caused an OOM
+ SecondsSinceLastCrash: <duration>, // Seconds elapsed since the last crash occurred
+ SystemMemoryUsePercentage: <percentage>, // Windows-only, percent of memory in use
+ TelemetrySessionId: <id>, // Active telemetry session ID when the crash was recorded
+ TextureUsage: <usage>, // Optional, usage of texture memory in bytes
+ TotalPageFile: <size>, // Windows-only, paging file in use
+ TotalPhysicalMemory: <size>, // Windows-only, physical memory in use
+ TotalVirtualMemory: <size>, // Windows-only, virtual memory in use
+ UptimeTS: <duration>, // Seconds since Firefox was started
+ User32BeforeBlocklist: 1, // Windows-only, present only if user32.dll was loaded before the DLL blocklist has been initialized
+ },
+ hasCrashEnvironment: bool
+ }
+ }
+
+Stack Traces
+------------
+
+The crash ping may contain a ``stackTraces`` field which has been populated
+with stack traces for all threads in the crashed process. The format of this
+field is similar to the one used by Socorro for representing a crash. The main
+differences are that redundant fields are not stored and that the module a
+frame belongs to is referenced by index in the module array rather than by its
+file name.
+
+Note that this field does not contain data from the application; only bare
+stack traces and module lists are stored.
+
+.. code-block:: js
+
+ {
+ status: <string>, // Status of the analysis, "OK" or an error message
+ crash_info: { // Basic crash information
+ type: <string>, // Type of crash, SIGSEGV, assertion, etc...
+ address: <addr>, // Crash address crash, hex format, see the notes below
+ crashing_thread: <index> // Index in the thread array below
+ },
+ main_module: <index>, // Index of Firefox' executable in the module list
+ modules: [{
+ base_addr: <addr>, // Base address of the module, hex format
+ end_addr: <addr>, // End address of the module, hex format
+ code_id: <string>, // Unique ID of this module, see the notes below
+ debug_file: <string>, // Name of the file holding the debug information
+ debug_id: <string>, // ID or hash of the debug information file
+ filename: <string>, // File name
+ version: <string>, // Library/executable version
+ },
+ ... // List of modules ordered by base memory address
+ ],
+ threads: [{ // Stack traces for every thread
+ frames: [{
+ module_index: <index>, // Index of the module this frame belongs to
+ ip: <ip>, // Program counter, hex format
+ trust: <string> // Trust of this frame, see the notes below
+ },
+ ... // List of frames, the first frame is the topmost
+ ]
+ }]
+ }
+
+Notes
+~~~~~
+
+Memory addresses and instruction pointers are always stored as strings in
+hexadecimal format (e.g. "0x4000"). They can be made of up to 16 characters for
+64-bit addresses.
+
+The crash type is both OS and CPU dependent and can be either a descriptive
+string (e.g. SIGSEGV, EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) or a raw numeric value. The
+crash address meaning depends on the type of crash. In a segmentation fault the
+crash address will be the memory address whose access caused the fault; in a
+crash triggered by an illegal instruction exception the address will be the
+instruction pointer where the invalid instruction resides.
+See `breakpad <https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/c99d374dde62654a024840accfb357b2851daea0/src/processor/minidump_processor.cc#675>`_'s
+relevant code for further information.
+
+Since it's not always possible to establish with certainty the address of the
+previous frame while walking the stack, every frame has a trust value that
+represents how it was found and thus how certain we are that it's a real frame.
+The trust levels are (from least trusted to most trusted):
+
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| Trust | Description |
++===============+===================================================+
+| context | Given as instruction pointer in a context |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| prewalked | Explicitly provided by some external stack walker |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| cfi | Derived from call frame info |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| frame_pointer | Derived from frame pointer |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| cfi_scan | Found while scanning stack using call frame info |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| scan | Scanned the stack, found this |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| none | Unknown, this is most likely not a valid frame |
++---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+
+The ``code_id`` field holds a unique ID used to distinguish between different
+versions and builds of the same module. See `breakpad <https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/24f5931c5e0120982c0cbf1896641e3ef2bdd52f/src/google_breakpad/processor/code_module.h#60>`_'s
+description for further information. This field is populated only on Windows.