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Date:      Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:48:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD SMP list <FreeBSD-smp@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Allocating mutexes dynamically and WITNESS
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010109094832.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010109161915.C51397@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On 09-Jan-01 Greg Lehey wrote:
> I'm about to add a lock mutex to Vinum RAID-[45] plexes.  Each plex
> gets its own mutex, since it only applies to a specific plex.  That's
> fine in the normal case: I just add a MUTEX_DECLARE to the plex struct
> definition and all is fine and dandy.  But if I do this with WITNESS
> defined, it tries to initialize it.  Any thoughts about how to DTRT
> here?

Don't use MUTEX_DECLARE().  Just do a normal struct mtx foo and mtx_init(&foo);
MUTEX_DECLARE doesn't work in structures, it only works for standalone mutexes,
and hopefully won't be needed by any more mutexes than already use it.

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