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Re: missing KERNEL_LOCK ?



On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:38:30AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:32:29PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> 
> >> That looks plausibly correct.
> >> 
> >> Two thoughts:
> >> 
> >>   Have you run with LOCKDEBUG?  We have found that netbsd-6 can run
> >>   with LOCKDEBUG and stay up, only about a 2x speed penalty.
> >
> > No, I've not tried this. Indeed LOCKDEBUG causes more serialization so it
> > could hide this kind of problem.
> 
> Perhaps, but the system not crashing with LOCKDEBUG is an important
> property to maintain.  So I personally would not commit this without a
> LOCKDEBUG run.

AFAIK LOCKDEBUG doens't covers KERNEL_LOCK, but I can test it anyway.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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