Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:27:45 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for |
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Amen Brother.
Alan Cox wrote: > > > IMO there was only one historically hard spinlock-related problem that > > needed solving, this is the 'locks up hard' problem (which is solved). The > > rest was never really an debugging obstacle, 99% of the spinlock related > > bugs manifest themselves in clear, unambiguous lockups. > > Then why are we still finding obscure lock ordering bugs in 2.2 ? Finding them > when they bite you is easy, finding the obscure ones when they dont generally > bite is much harder - thats where debugging kernels that trap and dump > lock lists for order violations are a big win - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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