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Re: apparently missing locking in if_bnx.c



On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 07:15:48AM -0500, Beverly Schwartz wrote:
> I understand that lockdebug changes timing and can impact performance
> and that my bug may "disappear" because of that.  What I found really
> difficult was that for my bug, lockdebug consistently caused a freeze
> up.  Not a panic.  Not a crash.  An indiscriminate freeze.  And it
> happened quickly and consistently.  That sent me down a completely
> wrong path of inquiry, taking me further from "my" bug.

Can you drop into the kernel debugger, or is it too frozen even for
that?

Dave

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