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authorngie <ngie@FreeBSD.org>2015-02-06 20:46:46 +0000
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Document WITNESS_COUNT and WITNESS_NO_VNODE
Reviewed by: bcr, kib Differential Revision: D1789 MFC after: 3 days Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
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.Nd lock validation facility
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd options WITNESS
+.Cd options WITNESS_COUNT
.Cd options WITNESS_KDB
+.Cd options WITNESS_NO_VNODE
.Cd options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
@@ -56,6 +58,28 @@ does not recurse on a non-recursive lock,
or attempt an upgrade on a shared lock held by another thread.
If any of these checks fail, then the kernel will panic.
.Pp
+The
+.Dv WITNESS_COUNT
+kernel option controls the maximum number of
+.Xr witness 4
+entries that are tracked in the kernel.
+The maximum number of entries can be queried via the
+.Va debug.witness.count
+sysctl.
+It can also be set from the
+.Xr loader 8
+via the
+.Va debug.witness.count
+environment variable.
+.Pp
+The
+.Dv WITNESS_NO_VNODE
+kernel option tells
+.Xr witness 4
+to ignore locking issues between
+.Xr vnode 9
+objects.
+.Pp
The flag that controls whether or not the kernel debugger is entered when a
lock order violation is detected can be set in a variety of ways.
By default, the flag is off, but if the
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