Re: Heads up: New WITNESS output
Zhenlei Huang <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> On Jan 27, 2026, at 4:33 AM, Jonathan T. Looney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > As a heads-up, I just committed a change to the WITNESS output. It will now print more detailed information when a lock ordering was established through a chain of locks (e.g. lock1 is locked before lock2, lock2 is locked before lock3; therefore, locking lock3 before lock1 is a LOR). > > An example of the new output is in the review request (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54785 <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54785>). > > If you want to restore the old behavior, you can set the debug.witness.trace sysctl/tunable to 1. > > In the meantime, please let me know if you run into any trouble with the new functionality. > > Jonathan Hi Jonathan, That is a nice feature. I have been confused by the LOR report for many times. Thanks for your work ! Best regards, Zhenlei