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To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Well, that certainly explains the blitz of crashes I had to fix
> recently!  Since INVARIANTS and WITNESS are on by default, it would
> make sense to make ADAPTIVE_MUTEX default to catch more bugs.

Making ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES default will not catch more bugs, it will just
piss off users.

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