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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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