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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:54:14 +1200
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        attilio@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: crash in tty code in 6.1.. fixed since?
Message-ID:  <20070713085414.GC11395@heff.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <46973A08.3030607@delphij.net>
References:  <46970DF7.3000803@elischer.org> <46972B28.1010409@FreeBSD.org> <200707131021.59966.hselasky@c2i.net> <46973A08.3030607@delphij.net>

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:38:32PM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> [...]
> > Maybe related:
> > 
> > Regarding the keyboard system which is also Giant locked, we should add assert 
> > Giant statements, because I see several callers doing calls into the keyboard 
> > system without holding Giant!
> 
> I think that is a good idea.  By adding these assertions our user
> community would be able to catch more under-exercised codepath under
> their workload.

Well hopefully the developer adding the assertions would attempt to find
them all first rather than 'fishing' for a panic. :)



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