Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:43:04AM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 03:41:07PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > > >    
> > > >    SPLDEBUG is single-purpose.  It also has some bugs, which I am happy
> > > > to describe.  But let's keep it until we come up with something better.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > now you've told me all of:  it's single purpose, MD, and doesn't work.
> > > > 
> > > > please revert SPLDEBUG.  it does not belong in sys/kern.
> > > 
> > > Have a little patience.  I am incorporating all of the suggestions that
> > > I have heard so far into a patch.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is there any progress on this?  IIIRC, general agreement was that
> > subr_spldebug.c does not belong to sys/kern.
> 
> Can you respond?

I plan to commit my final patches in this area for posterity, and then
to remove the feature just as soon as DTrace is capable of providing
it.  I don't think that there are FBT probes on all of the relevant
assembly-language routines, yet.

Dave

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