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Re: missing KERNEL_LOCK ?



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.

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