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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ?

It's just a status message, under earlier versions (4.x) the ENTIRE
KERNEL was giant locked.

Kris