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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 2013 19:34:01 +0200
From:      Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-9.1: machine reboots during snapshot creation, LORs found
Message-ID:  <20130704173401.GA3297@bali>
In-Reply-To: <20130704172528.GL91021@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20130531122611.GA6607@bali> <201305311051.03157.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130616063942.GA72803@bali> <201306171530.31208.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130704051409.GA22021@bali> <20130704052440.GG91021@kib.kiev.ua> <20130704052659.GA23398@bali> <20130704061550.GI91021@kib.kiev.ua> <20130704142919.GA1798@bali> <20130704172528.GL91021@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Thu, 04-Jul-2013 at 19:25:28 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:29:19PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > OK, patch is applied. I will reboot the machine later
> > and see what happens tomorrow in the morning. However,
> > it might take a few days since the last 2 weeks all was
> > fine.
> > 
> > BTW, should this patch be used in general or is it just
> > for debugging? My understanding is that it is something
> > which could stay in the code...
> 
> Patch is to improve debugging.

That's what I suspected.

> 
> I probably commit it after the issue is closed.  Arguments against
> the commit is that the change imposes small performance penalty
> due to save and restore of the %ebp (I doubt that this is measureable
> by any means).  Also, arguably, such change should be done for all
> functions in support.s, but bcopy() is the hot spot.

Hmm, maybe it could simply get enabled conditionally 
through some kernel compile option which is off by
default...

	-Andre



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