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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:44:50 -0500
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include mutex.h
Message-ID:  <3A367222.1EDB3221@cup.hp.com>
References:  <XFMail.001212083933.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/i386/include     mutex.h
> >   Log:
> >   Fix the assembly mutex macros to call the appropriate witness functions if
> >   the witness code is compiled in.  Without this, the witness code doesn't
> >   notice that sched_lock is released by fork_trampoline() and thus gets all
> >   confused about spin lock order later on.
> 
> Similar work needs to be done on the alpha and ia64 as well.  Right now
> fork_trampoline() is the only case this kicks in, but the light weight context
> switches will rely on this even more.

I'll take a look at ia64. I'm already in the process of getting the port
back into shape (sort of)...

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
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