Testers Needed!!
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 12 14:19:00 PST 2004
On Friday 12 March 2004 04:28 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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?
Ah, yes, forgot to mention. Test out gdb and make sure simple things like
attaching to a process and then detaching from it, breakpoints, etc. work ok
w/o generating a LOR warning (which means you have to have WITNESS on for
this test). Thanks for testing these.
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