From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 14:19:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF9C16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D0943D1F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26645 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 22:18:59 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Mar 2004 22:18:59 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2CMIr29044291; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:18:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Wilko Bulte Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:15:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200403121543.03123.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040312212836.GA5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040312212836.GA5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403121715.52419.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testers Needed!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:19:00 -0000 On Friday 12 March 2004 04:28 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:43:03PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > Ok, two patches that I need someone to test. First off, I have some > > fixes to allow ptrace() to be marked MP safe again w/o generating a lock > > order reversal. This patch is at > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.ptrace.patch > > > > Note that you will have to do a 'make init_sysent.c' in sys/kern after > > patching to get the updated ptrace flag before building a new kernel. > > Anything special to be done for testing this one? Ah, yes, forgot to mention. Test out gdb and make sure simple things like attaching to a process and then detaching from it, breakpoints, etc. work ok w/o generating a LOR warning (which means you have to have WITNESS on for this test). Thanks for testing these. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org