Re: crash in tty code in 6.1.. fixed since?

From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:54:14 +1200
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:38:32PM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> [...]
> > Maybe related:
> > 
> > Regarding the keyboard system which is also Giant locked, we should add assert 
> > Giant statements, because I see several callers doing calls into the keyboard 
> > system without holding Giant!
> 
> I think that is a good idea.  By adding these assertions our user
> community would be able to catch more under-exercised codepath under
> their workload.

Well hopefully the developer adding the assertions would attempt to find
them all first rather than 'fishing' for a panic. :)
Received on Fri Jul 13 2007 - 06:54:16 UTC

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