Testers Needed!!

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:43:03PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> Ok, two patches that I need someone to test.  First off, I have some fixes to 
> allow ptrace() to be marked MP safe again w/o generating a lock order 
> reversal.  This patch is at 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.ptrace.patch
> 
> Note that you will have to do a 'make init_sysent.c' in sys/kern after 
> patching to get the updated ptrace flag before building a new kernel.

Anything special to be done for testing this one?
> 
> interrupted by an interrupt returning back to PAL on a different CPU and that 
> this violated some assumption made by PAL.  To work around this, I use the 
> new sched_pin() API to pin the interrupted thread around ithread preemption 
> in this patch.  So, this patch needs to be tested on both UP and SMP under 

Don't have SMP, can do UP.

> load (-j 256 world build loops, etc.).  I'm also curious if it does help 
> performance at all, or at least the interactive "feel".  Patch is at 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha_preempt.patch

Will let you know..

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org