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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:05:58 -0400
From:      Jeff Wheelhouse <freebsd-hackers@wheelhouse.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: lockmgr on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64
Message-ID:  <E263BAA0-6B65-429B-A332-6AF374D4B91E@wheelhouse.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809251553.48978.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:53 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> You can use KTR instead of printf perhaps and then use 'show ktr'  
> from DDB.
> This won't have the same impact on timing as printf().  I would  
> include PIDs
> in any KTR traces you do so it's easier to parse the interleaved  
> entries from
> multiple CPUs.

OK, while I am educating myself about how KTR works, what would you  
like to see?  Just mp->mnt_vnodecovered?

>  Also, if you have a good test case, it might be worth
> grabbing a box w/o gmirror that can generate a crashdump and  
> reproduce it
> there.

Not an option for us right now; spare 8-core boxes are hard to come  
by.  We're looking for a USB hard drive or something we can dump to.

Thanks,
Jeff




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