From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 14 2:59: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6D237B479; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 02:58:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p25-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.90]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id TAA09522; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:58:57 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A111A29.F7A67799@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:55:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turning on debugging in GENERIC References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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