svn commit: r321279 - stable/10/share/man/man4
Ngie Cooper
ngie at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 20 01:12:32 UTC 2017
Author: ngie
Date: Thu Jul 20 01:12:31 2017
New Revision: 321279
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/321279
Log:
MFC r278329:
Document WITNESS_COUNT and WITNESS_NO_VNODE
Modified:
stable/10/share/man/man4/witness.4
Directory Properties:
stable/10/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/10/share/man/man4/witness.4
==============================================================================
--- stable/10/share/man/man4/witness.4 Thu Jul 20 01:11:58 2017 (r321278)
+++ stable/10/share/man/man4/witness.4 Thu Jul 20 01:12:31 2017 (r321279)
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@
.Nd lock validation facility
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd options WITNESS
+.Cd options WITNESS_COUNT
.Cd options WITNESS_KDB
+.Cd options WITNESS_NO_VNODE
.Cd options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
@@ -55,6 +57,28 @@ code also checks various other conditions such as veri
does not recurse on a non-recursive lock,
or attempt an upgrade on a shared lock held by another thread.
If any of these checks fail, then the kernel will panic.
+.Pp
+The
+.Dv WITNESS_COUNT
+kernel option controls the maximum number of
+.Xr witness 4
+entries that are tracked in the kernel.
+The maximum number of entries can be queried via the
+.Va debug.witness.count
+sysctl.
+It can also be set from the
+.Xr loader 8
+via the
+.Va debug.witness.count
+environment variable.
+.Pp
+The
+.Dv WITNESS_NO_VNODE
+kernel option tells
+.Xr witness 4
+to ignore locking issues between
+.Xr vnode 9
+objects.
.Pp
The flag that controls whether or not the kernel debugger is entered when a
lock order violation is detected can be set in a variety of ways.
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