Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:34:03 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_trap.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301311132480.45015-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030131133123.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 31-Jan-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > do you know of any other problems?
>
> thread_statclock() has a similar problem as others have noticed:
what others?
why doesn't anyone tell ME these things?
is there some discussion going on in a places I don't see? like IRC?
>
> int
> thread_statclock(int user)
> {
> struct thread *td = curthread;
>
> ...
> if (td->td_mailbox != NULL)
> td->td_usticks += ticks;
> }
>
> Prior to this commit, the 'ticks' variable was an argument to this
> function, now it is using the global variable instead. This is
> clearly wrong and along with the other breakages this commit has
> introduced so far demonstrate a severe lack of testing or review
> in this commit. We want to make RELENG_5 more stable as we approach
> 5.1 not less if possible. There is nothing preventing you from
> doing development work in side trees and only committing it when it
> is tested and has been properly reviewed. Please back these changes
> out and work on them locally until you have tested them and fully
> reviewed them.
>
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 31-Jan-2003 Tim J. Robbins wrote:
> >> > tjr 2003/01/31 03:22:32 PST
> >> >
> >> > Modified files:
> >> > sys/kern subr_trap.c
> >> > Log:
> >> > Use a local variable to store the number of ticks that elapsed in
> >> > kernel mode instead of (unintentionally) using the global `ticks'.
> >> > This error completely broke profiling.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we should really back out the 'upcall' change until the patch
> >> has has some more review and bugs like this have been fixed.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
> >>
> >
>
> --
>
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
>
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