On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:13:26AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman writes: > > > You should never not run with WITNESS_SKIPSPIN if you use > > modules. Any spin mutexes not listed statically in the witness > > code will cause your machine to immediately panic. > > If this is true (and I'm not disputing it), shouldn't it be > noted in GENERIC and/or NOTES? For that matter, what's the penalty > for not automatically including it as part of WITNESS? Sometimes you don't want to use it, e.g. if you actually want to trace spinlock operations with witness. Kris
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