FreeBSD-9.1: machine reboots during snapshot creation, LORs found

Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com
Thu Jul 4 17:34:04 UTC 2013


On Thu, 04-Jul-2013 at 19:25:28 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:29:19PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > OK, patch is applied. I will reboot the machine later
> > and see what happens tomorrow in the morning. However,
> > it might take a few days since the last 2 weeks all was
> > fine.
> > 
> > BTW, should this patch be used in general or is it just
> > for debugging? My understanding is that it is something
> > which could stay in the code...
> 
> Patch is to improve debugging.

That's what I suspected.

> 
> I probably commit it after the issue is closed.  Arguments against
> the commit is that the change imposes small performance penalty
> due to save and restore of the %ebp (I doubt that this is measureable
> by any means).  Also, arguably, such change should be done for all
> functions in support.s, but bcopy() is the hot spot.

Hmm, maybe it could simply get enabled conditionally 
through some kernel compile option which is off by
default...

	-Andre


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