[RFQ] make witness panic an option

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 16 02:32:23 UTC 2012


On 15 November 2012 09:56, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>> Do you really think that an abusable mechanism will help here rather

> It sounds like he's more worried about introducing LoRs into his wireless code. They are harmless, for him, and he can fix them by reloading the driver. They are only harmful if he loses a race.

LOR's and lock assertions. Ie, I want to find out at run time that a
lock wasnt' held at a certain position but continue soldiering on.
That's how I've been finding out all of the races in net80211/ath, as
there wasn't locking where there needed to be.



Adrian
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