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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:00:26 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_witness.c
Message-ID:  <200412271600.26989.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041227005456.GA57720@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200412262252.iBQMqPe7060613@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041227005456.GA57720@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sunday 26 December 2004 07:54 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:52:24PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> > rwatson     2004-12-26 22:52:24 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             subr_witness.c
> >   Log:
> >   Add "show alllocks" command to DDB, which dumps a list of processes
> >   and threads currently holding sleep mutexes (and spin mutexes for
> >   curthread).  This can be quite useful in looking for a lock condition
> >   summary for a system, as it avoids manually iterating through threads
> >   and processes to find all the interesting locks.
> >
> >   NB: "alllocks" is up there with "lockedvnods" for a bad argument for
> >   show.
>
> ITYM "allloks" or perhaps "alllockes" (conservation of vowels).

If you want a better name you could do 'show locks /a' instead.  That is, add 
support to 'show locks' for the /a option (see 'show ktr' for how you would 
handle this by looking at 'modif').

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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