Rwlock

WITNESS(4) - Device Drivers Manual

Options, Sysctl, Mutex, Ddb, Rwlock, Witness

WITNESS(4) - Device Drivers Manual # WITNESS(4) - Device Drivers Manual NAME # witness - lock validation facility DESCRIPTION # The witness module keeps track of the locks acquired and released by each thread. It also keeps track of the order in which locks are acquired with respect to each other. Each time a lock is acquired, witness uses these two lists to verify that a lock is not being acquired in the wrong order. ...