Subject: kern/769: mismatch between DEBUG and DIAGNOSTIC over vfs_bufstats()
To: None <gnats-admin@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/30/1995 01:35:02
>Number: 769
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: mismatch between DEBUG and DIAGNOSTIC over vfs_bufstats()
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 30 01:35:01 1995
>Originator: Jonathan Stone
>Organization:
" representing myself"
>Release: 1995-01-29
>Environment:
pmax, NetBSD-current, pmax, no libraries
System: NetBSD Reno.Stanford.EDU 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (CURRENT) #73: Sun Jan 29 23:59:35 PST 1995 jonathan@Reno.Stanford.EDU:/greyhawk/n1/src/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/CURRENT pmax
>Description:
kern/vfs_bio.c:vfs_bufstats() is wrapped in #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC/#endif,
so it is only defined when a kernel is configured with the
DIAGNOSTIC option. Yet, as the comment above vfs_bufstat clearly
states, vfs_bufstat() may be called from within sync() if
"syncprt" has been set with sysctl. The "syncprt" sysctl,
and the conditional call to vfs_bufstat(), are present
if (and only if) DEBUG is defined.
Clearly, vfs_bufstat() should be selected by if DEBUG is defined.
>How-To-Repeat:
Build a kernel with DEBUG defined but not DIAGNOSTIC.
_vfs_bufstat will not be resolved and the kernel won't link.
>Fix:
Change the DIAGNOSTIC in vfs_bio.c:line 779 to DEBUG .
Or, if appropriate, #if defined(DEBUG) || defined(DIAGNOSTIC).
Or don't build kernels without DIAGNOSTIC. Which is a pain, if one
is trying to get performance measurements.
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