On Thu, 04-Jul-2013 at 19:25:28 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:29:19PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > OK, patch is applied. I will reboot the machine later > > and see what happens tomorrow in the morning. However, > > it might take a few days since the last 2 weeks all was > > fine. > > > > BTW, should this patch be used in general or is it just > > for debugging? My understanding is that it is something > > which could stay in the code... > > Patch is to improve debugging.
That's what I suspected. > > I probably commit it after the issue is closed. Arguments against > the commit is that the change imposes small performance penalty > due to save and restore of the %ebp (I doubt that this is measureable > by any means). Also, arguably, such change should be done for all > functions in support.s, but bcopy() is the hot spot. Hmm, maybe it could simply get enabled conditionally through some kernel compile option which is off by default... -Andre _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"