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Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: Stop scheduler on panic
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on 21/11/2011 18:58 Attilio Rao said the following:
> I would be very in favor about having a 'thread trampoline for KDB',
> thus that it can use locks.

I keep hearing the suggestion to add this trampoline, but I admit that I do not
understand its technical meaning in this context.  And also how it helps with
the locking.  So I will appreciate an explanation!  Thanks!

-- 
Andriy Gapon