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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:43:45 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kasserts behind invariants
Message-ID:  <52AB8DA1.3000007@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <1386971425.37172.9.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>
References:  <1386971425.37172.9.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>

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On 12/13/13 1:50 PM, Sean Bruno wrote:
> I guess this may have been argued before, but I don't see why we would
> want to hide specific things like:  sys/kern/subr_lock.c
>
> /* Check for double-init and zero object. */
> KASSERT(!lock_initalized(lock), ("lock \"%s\" %p already initialized",
>          name, lock));
>
> If I hadn't completely missed the fact that I had INVARIANTS activated,
> I'd never have found out why this vendor driver was being so completely
> stupid and crashing my machine.
>
> If I find things like this that I want old KASSERT behavior on (panic if
> true) and I don't want to run INVARIANTS, is that possible?

I don't understand the question, do you want to move it from INVARIANTS 
to under just a plain if(condition)?

-Alfred




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