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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: michaelh@cet.co.jp, ponds!ponds!rivers
Subject: Re: Even more info on daily panics...
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> 
> IMHO, it's not good to speculate.  You need to confirm with absolute
> certainty that the patch is what actually fixed it.
> 
> You might want to do either of the following:
> 
> 1) Remove the patch and see if what happens.
> 
> 2) Put in print statements and see if the relevent section of code ever
> gets executed.  See other #ifdef DIAGNOSTICS for examples of how to do
> this.  I think vrele() had one.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Mike Hancock

 Yes!  What an excellent idea!  It simply never occurred to me (dooh.)

 I'll put a printf() in the vfs_subr.c source - so that if we would
have walked off the end of the chain (or back around), we'll get something.

 The other vrele() diagnostic hasn't been tripped; so we must not be
getting a negative usecount...

	- Dave Rivers -