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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:56:56 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_witness.c
Message-ID:  <200410111356.56415.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200410090816.i998Gbs5076009@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200410090816.i998Gbs5076009@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Saturday 09 October 2004 04:16 am, Brian Feldman wrote:
> green       2004-10-09 08:16:37 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             subr_witness.c
>   Log:
>   Don't "implicitly order all sleep locks before spin locks" in witness
>   when the spin lock in question isn't -- it's the critical_enter() that
>   KDB set.  No more panic in DDB for console -> syscons -> tty -> knote
>   operations.

Thanks for breaking witness.  A better choice would be to fix kdb_printf() 
instead of just papering over the problem.  Having KDB block on a lock will 
have all sorts of bad results and all this does is hide the warning.

Please revert.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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