From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 21 10: 5: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2011D37B404 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from jehovah ([24.201.144.31]) by VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G7IY7Q05.181; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:04:38 -0500 Message-ID: <009e01c083d4$d880d0c0$1f90c918@jehovah> From: "Bosko Milekic" To: "Jason Evans" , References: <20010121062953.V69199@canonware.com> Subject: Re: WITNESS may cause failed boot, patch available Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:06:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Evans wrote: > Peter Wemm noticed that WITNESS currently causes a kernel trap the alpha. > The bug also exists on x86, but does not necessarily cause any problems. > If you run into problems (probably during boot), there is a patch available > that should fix the WITNESS problem: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/diffs/mutex_f_3.diff This looks like a variation of Peter's mutex.diff which moves a bunch of macros to kern/kern_mutex.c from sys/mutex.h - so is it final now that we will move them there? > Jason -Bosko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message