On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:21:20PM +0900, Kazushi Marukawa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an update of my situation.
> 
> I have been using NetBSD 11/27 with LOCKDEBUG and Manuel's
> last patch.  It is running over 3 days without any crashes.
> However, it is running slow.  Especially, WinXP running on
> xen3-hvm is really slow.  Maybe alot of locks to run WinXP?

HVM triggers a lot of interrupts, which I think requires locks to get to
the qemu-dm process. As LOCKDEBUG makes the lock primitives much more
expensive, this may explain it.

> 
> I'm afraiding this will not crash.  Because I'm thinking
> that this slowness may hide the rare condition causing the
> crash previously.
> 
> Anyway, it's running, so I will leave it as is for a while
> to see whether it crashes or not.  If you have any idea to
> try, please let me know.  Thanks.

I'm running a LOCKDEBUG kernel now as well, and I didn't see a crash either.

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