freezing, hard locking, and debug.mpsafenet=0

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 8 12:29:06 PDT 2007


Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>> Elvar wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>> <snip>
> <snip>
>>>
>>> Could someone familiar with -CURRENT perhaps explain why this option 
>>> (debug.mpsafenet=0) is gone?
>>
>> Because it was an obsolete option that was complicating the code and 
>> holding back further development.
>>
>> If you are seeing bugs, you need to follow through with obtaining the 
>> necessary debugging (see the developers handbook), then submit a PR. 
>> Note that if you don't do this then you cannot reasonably expect 
>> anyone to fix your problems.
> 
> Kris, if a system locks up completely (does not take any input, no 
> dumps, just stop) is there anything one can do in terms of debugging?
 >
 > I would post more information if I knew how to get it.

Of course, and it's documented in the above place.  Did you read it yet?

Kris


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