On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:31:42PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 9/23/2014 1:20 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:04:21PM +0000, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> >> Author: bdrewery
> >> Date: Tue Sep 23 17:04:21 2014
> >> New Revision: 272032
> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/272032
> >>
> >> Log:
> >> DEBUG_LOCKS no longer modifies 'struct vnode', nor does fstat(1) use it.
> >> fstat(1) now uses libprocstat(9). There is no userland impact to using
> >> this.
> >
> > DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS does modify KBI of VFS, by adding struct stack to
> > lockmgr, and lockmgr is embedded into each struct vnode.
> >
> > VFS modules, in particular, filesystems, compiled for mismatched
> > kernel WRT DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS, would cause strange breakage.
>
> Well, perhaps the comment needs to be updated to state that
> DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS modifies VFS KBI so any VFS modules will need to recompiled.
>
> I did see the stack was moved to lockmgr, but given the use of
> libprocstat, and lockmgr being a kernel struct, I don't think it's worth
> mentioning userland here.
>
> Sound good?
I agree, I do not think that userland is affected.
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