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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2011 17:52:13 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        mdf@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-user@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r222060 - in user/avg/xcpu/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <4DDD179D.5030901@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikmxbsCV_A-zD7XdkWyOEBzy67iZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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on 18/05/2011 23:43 mdf@FreeBSD.org said the following:
> I know it's almost required now (sync on reboot?!?!), but I would
> strongly question, from an architectural standpoint, why the scheduler
> should be running at all in panic.  Once a thread pulls the panic
> trigger, nothing else should run except ddb in that thread's context.

I agree, but as I've said in other email I would prefer to keep a
backwards-compatibility knob for some time.  Personally I don't like things like
sync-on-panic, but other people may need some transition time.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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