Re: needs a tester with an SMP 7.0 box

From: Daniel Eischen <eischen_at_vigrid.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 05:13:22 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> 
>>> Xin LI wrote:
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>>>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>>>> I'm not sure why, but a fresh RELENG_7_0 with your patch, plus DDB
>>>>>> enabled does not trigger the problem :-/
>>>>>>
>>>>>  what happens without the patch?
>>>> 
>>>> No, I mean that it used to crash with previous kernel which is built
>>>> only a couple of days ago, no more than a week.  You want me to test the
>>>> case without patch?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> We need to detirmine
>>> 1/ whether there is a problem in 7.0 in the first place. if not, we are 
>>> done.
>>> 
>>> 2/ whether the patch fixes it if there is a problem.
>> 
>> I think it's safe to say that it _is_ a potential problem in both
>> -current, 7.0 and 6.x.  I committed it to -current without trying
>> to duplicate the problem.
>
> yes but 7.0 is in countdown where -current isn't

So?  It's a problem, and moreso libkse is not the default in 7.0,
so what is the harm in playing it safe and MFC'ing it now so as
to not hold up 7.0 any longer?

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DE
Received on Fri Feb 01 2008 - 09:23:56 UTC

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