From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 16:33:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 298E416A4CF; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:33:55 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chiang Seng Chang Message-ID: <20050308163355.GC48072@hub.freebsd.org> References: <422D04CE.10909@ctzen.com> <20050308024526.GB48072@hub.freebsd.org> <422D3D53.4020606@ctzen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <422D3D53.4020606@ctzen.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Kris Kennaway cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:33:55 -0000 On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:51:15AM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>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 > > The GIANT-LOCKED status message is not displayed in 5.2 also ? No, but most (more) of the drivers still are giant-locked. The message was added later in the 5.x development cycle as more drivers started getting out from underneath Giant and so it made sense to start pointing them out to developers as areas for future work. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe