Testers Needed!!

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:15:52PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.

I'm by no standard a gdb specialist but I played with it with a WITNESS
equipped kernel and it did not complain about LOR. On a UP DS10 btw.

Gonna try the other patch next.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org