lock order reversal status page

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Mon May 3 19:40:03 UTC 2004


On Mon, 3 May 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:

> Jon Noack <noackjr at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
> > Bjoern Zeeb put together a lock order reversal page so that people can
> > check the status of LORs:
> > http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html
> >
> > I think it would be great if we could get it put up on the FreeBSD.org
> > site.  We could then put a link to it in the source to cut down on list
> > noise.  I assume the best place to put it would be under the FAQ
> > section.  Do you agree that this is a good idea?  If so, what do we (I)
> > need to do to get this done?
>
> What is your opinion of a good way to put it in the "lock order reversal"
> output without making it either lost in the noise or confuse people as to
> its intent?

< SCNR >
put it in in bold <b>http://..../</b>
< /SCNR >

I do not like the idea to have an URL in the kernel sources but maybe
the only way one may see this is s.th. like:

--- dmesg excerpt ---
lock order reversal
------------------------------------------------------------
please first read this before submitting PR or posting:
http://..../
------------------------------------------------------------
 1st 0xc5a585ac vm object (vm object) @ sys/vm/swap_pager.c:1313
 2nd 0xc095d800 swap_pager swhash (swap_pager swhash) @ sys/vm/swap_pager.c:1803
 3rd 0xc1040948 vm object (vm object) @ sys/vm/uma_core.c:886
Stack backtrace:
...
--- trap 0x1, eip = 0, esp = 0xd747cd7c, ebp = 0 ---
--- /dmesg excerpt ---


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