Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:55:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turning on debugging in GENERIC Message-ID: <3A111A29.F7A67799@newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.001113171938.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > Well, I've seen several cases of this being talked about, but unless there are > major objections (and there shouldn't be), I plan to turn on the following > options in GENERIC in -current in 2-3 days: > > options INVARIANTS > options INVARIANT_SUPPORT > options DIAGNOSTICS > options WITNESS > > Currently a kernel will not boot with WITNESS turned on (it will die during the > SCSI/ATA probes), but I have patches to fix this that have been tested on UP > and SMP x86 and work fine and I am in the process of testing on my Alpha. If > anyone has any other debugging options that they would like to see turned on in > addition, feel free to add to this list. Please forgive me if I'm making a Terrycism and talking about old issues, but isn't one of DIAGNOSTICS problem that it isn't "passive" code and, thus, can actually hide bugs? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@world.wide.bsdconspiracy.net He has been convicted of criminal possession of a clue with intent to distribute. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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