Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:35:36 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: twe and giant Message-ID: <20051106003536.GA52953@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0511051832570.372@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0511051832570.372@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:36:56PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > I was just wondering about this... I recently bumped a soon-to-be=20 > production box to 6.0 as it seems like upgrading now is easier than doing= =20 > it the week after the box goes into production (it's amazing how the=20 > release engineering team knows to schedule this way...:). >=20 > One thing I noticed in reviewing the boot messages is that twe is still= =20 > under the giant lock: >=20 > twe0: <3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002> port=20 > 0x2860-0x286f mem 0xf4000000-0xf47fffff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0 > twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE8S 1.05.00.068, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048 >=20 > I bring this up because I could have sworn that I read here or elsewhere= =20 > that this driver was revamped. I also could have sworn that at some poin= t=20 > in 5.x it was not under giant. Maybe I'm imagining things... Under later 5.x the message was not reported except under boot -v because too many people were seeing the message and panicking thinking that it was a regression compared to 4.x, since 4.x didn't say anything about giant locking (but of course under 4.x the ENTIRE KERNEL was giant locked). > Anyhow, does anyone know the status of this, and also is there a central= =20 > repository that tracks changes like this that I can watch? Yes, you can subscribe to the cvs mailing lists. Kris --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDbU/YWry0BWjoQKURAjm8AJ4qZWbpePanfMq0Vfbqk3Xjx/s1/wCfXECq r3MmbYk4dhK5lD0yzzMGmkg= =AtHI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--
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