Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:33:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r250912 - head/share/man/man9 Message-ID: <201305221633.r4MGXT9e069713@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste Date: Wed May 22 16:33:28 2013 New Revision: 250912 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250912 Log: Remove reference to removed !MPSAFE filesystem support Modified: head/share/man/man9/locking.9 Modified: head/share/man/man9/locking.9 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man9/locking.9 Wed May 22 16:32:18 2013 (r250911) +++ head/share/man/man9/locking.9 Wed May 22 16:33:28 2013 (r250912) @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 25, 2012 +.Dd May 22, 2013 .Dt LOCKING 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Giant is an instance of a mutex, with so .It It is recursive. .It -Drivers and filesystems can request that Giant be locked around them +Drivers can request that Giant be locked around them by not marking themselves MPSAFE. Note that infrastructure to do this is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE drivers either became properly locked or disappear.
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