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Re: apparently missing locking in if_bnx.c



On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:13:47PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> 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?

Dropping into the kernel debugger has been hosed on amd64 for a while,
a problem with cnmagic, isn't it?

Or did that get fixed, and did I miss the memo -- again?

Thor


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