Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:11:07 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GIANT lock in 5.4 Message-ID: <4353F74B.2090403@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <20051017185543.GA94092@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4353ED68.5010500@raad.tartu.ee> <20051017185543.GA94092@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:28:56PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > >>Hello! ... >> With FreeBSD 5.3, several devices (for example: ips, ahc, >>atkbd) had a note similar to this in dmesg: >> >>ips0: <IBM ServeRAID Adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem >> 0xfeb00000-0xfebfffff irq 9 at device 1.0 on pci0 >>ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >> >>With FreeBSD 5.4, the [GIANT-LOCKED] message no longer appears. >> >>Does that mean that Giant lock has been removed from all those drivers, >>or is the message simply not printed? > > Do you still see it on some other drivers? If so, the former. grep -i giant /var/run/dmesg.boot comes up blank on all my FreeBSD 5.4 machines: the two RELENG_5_4 servers I've just upgraded and my home RELENG_5 box. --- ... I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
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