Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:56:26 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Testers Needed!! Message-ID: <20040312225626.GA5976@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200403121715.52419.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200403121543.03123.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040312212836.GA5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200403121715.52419.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:15:52PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > 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. I'm by no standard a gdb specialist but I played with it with a WITNESS equipped kernel and it did not complain about LOR. On a UP DS10 btw. Gonna try the other patch next. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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