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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