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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
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Subject: Re: GIANT lock in 5.4
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:28:56PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> I'm in a process of upgrading our FreeBSD 5.3 servers to 5.4. Two done,=
=20
> one to go. I noticed that the Giant lock is no longer mentioned in dmesg=
=20
> during boot. With FreeBSD 5.3, several devices (for example: ips, ahc,=20
> atkbd) had a note similar to this in dmesg:
>=20
> ips0: <IBM ServeRAID Adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 	=09
> 	0xfeb00000-0xfebfffff irq 9 at device 1.0 on pci0
> ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>=20
> With FreeBSD 5.4, the [GIANT-LOCKED] message no longer appears.
>=20
> Does that mean that Giant lock has been removed from all those drivers,=
=20
> or is the message simply not printed?

Do you still see it on some other drivers?  If so, the former.

Kris

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