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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:16:07 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-CURRENT yesterday: GIANT-LOCKED, lock order reversal
Message-ID:  <407D71D7.7000803@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <86ekqtcemd.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
References:  <86ekqtcemd.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>

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Chris Shenton wrote:
> Built world and new kernel from yesterday's CVSup and noticed a bunch
> of [GIANT-LOCKED] in the bootup.  Then, after it came up, it spewed
> errors about lock order reversal. I'm not clueful enough to understand
> what it's trying to tell me :-(

The GIANT-LOCKED messages are normal and flag drivers that have not been
converted to use their own locks.  The Lock Order Reversals are a bug
that is known and will hopefully be fixed soon.

Btw, I think that the GIANT-LOCKED and FAST interrupt messages will go
behind bootverbose before 5.3.

Scott



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