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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:05:12 -0800
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r244105 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <C2392E5C-932F-44C3-A784-917FABC9D5ED@felyko.com>
In-Reply-To: <201212121042.51362.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201212110123.qBB1NpOV060501@svn.freebsd.org> <201212121042.51362.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On 12 Dec 2012, at 07:42, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Monday, December 10, 2012 8:23:51 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Author: alfred
>> Date: Tue Dec 11 01:23:50 2012
>> New Revision: 244105
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244105
>>=20
>> Log:
>>  Switch the hardwired WITNESS panics to kassert_panic.
>>=20
>>  This is an ongoing effort to provide runtime debug information
>>  useful in the field that does not panic existing installations.
>>=20
>>  This gives us the flexibility needed when shipping images to a
>>  potentially large audience with WITNESS enabled without worrying
>>  about formerly non-fatal LORs hurting a release.
>>=20
>>  Sponsored by: iXsystems
>=20
> Witness doesn't panic on LORs.  These are all bigger violations for =
things=20
> like doing sx_sunlock() on a exclusively locked sx lock.  That is not =
safe and=20
> is merely going to result in data corruption and other unpleasantness. =
 This=20
> sounds like a very bad idea.  Did you talk about this anywhere (I have =
not=20
> caught up on various lists yet, so apologies if this has been =
discussed.)


Eww. This is indeed pretty bad. I would like to see this commit =
reverted.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo




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