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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:02:12 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
Cc:        mdf@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r212964 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <4C98E514.7090107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C98E324.8090803@feral.com>
References:  <201009211507.o8LF7iVv097676@svn.freebsd.org> <4C98D200.4040909@freebsd.org> <AANLkTim%2BZYppETzFOYrGjhsEXr9hVPi8L0Mvaa6RkhMq@mail.gmail.com> <201009211250.40704.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C98E324.8090803@feral.com>

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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
>> Err, I don't think _mtx_lock_sleep() is guarded in that fashion?  I
>> have an
>> old patch to do that but have never committed it.  If we want that we
>> should
>> probably change rwlocks and sxlocks to have also not block when
>> panicstr is
>> set.
> 
> Seems to me you are backing into interesting territory here- getting a
> bit more like Solaris.
> 
> If you *do* do this, then you really *do* need to stop all other CPUs
> when you panic, or else it's likely you'll double panic more often than
> not.

May be it is not so bad idea to get more coherent memory snapshot?

-- 
Alexander Motin



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