This is a reminder that if you would like to see the code for sane panic(9) context in 9.0, then I still need at least one independent reviewer and tester for the code. Thank you.
on 25/06/2011 17:37 Andriy Gapon said the following: > > I would like to ask for testing of the following patch. > Since the patch affects panic(9) context, then obviously its testing requires > getting some sort of panic, and preferably some sort of "post-panic" activity > too: > doing something in kdb, dumping a core (via debugger command or in unattended > mode), resetting a machine finally. > > At minimum I hope that no regressions are introduced. > At maximum I hope that some things are improved like, e.g., crash dump > succeeding > where it failed before (PR amd64/139614). > > The patch is for recent head/CURRENT. It mostly affects SMP systems, but > also has > a smaller impact on UP systems. > I can try to adapt it to stable/8, if sufficient interest arises. > Please see the following message for the patch and some more details. > > -------- Original Message -------- > > I would like to present the following diff for review and discussion: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/stop_scheduler_on_panic.diff > > The idea is to stop scheduler in a panic context and to provide a special > environment for the only running thread, the one that called panic(9). > > I tried to make this diff as minimal as possible, it doesn't include changes > that > I consider to be useful improvements and [even] bug fixes, but which generated > controversy in non-public discussions. > > If there is no negative feedback within next few days, then I plan to post the > patch to current@ to solicit some testing. I will definitely wait for > positive > feedback before committing this change. I hope that I will be able to sneak > it > into the 9 release (unless there are objections to this). > > Thank you! -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
