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Date:      Sun, 8 May 2011 23:45:13 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic when removing a SCSI device entry
Message-ID:  <20110508204513.GC48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20110508203634.GE5364@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 10:36:34PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Kostik Belousov wrote:
>=20
> > > I could perhaps setup a serial console, so to get at least DDB
> > > functioning if you'd like to see more details.  ...
>=20
> > Serial console is fine, I do want to see a backtrace.
> > There is also "show cdev" command in ddb, that might provide some
> > useful information.
>=20
> OK, I'm setting up a DDB kernel right now, and attached an old laptop
> as the console terminal.  I also applied your suggested patch.
Great.

>=20
> > INVARIANTS may be also useful, since the kernel might catch the
> > corruption earlier.
>=20
> As INVARIANTS has a performance impact, I'd like to avoid that by now.
> Let's see first whether an analysis is possible without that.  If not,
> would it suffice to just compile kern_conf.c with INVARIANTS?

No, it is not enough to compile only kern_conf.c with INVARIANTS.
Performance impact is not that huge, and definitely pays it cost
for such problems.

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