From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 00:35:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECBC16A41F for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:35:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D30D43D45 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:35:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF4D1A3C2B; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:35:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07A4351352; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:35:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:35:36 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Charles Sprickman Message-ID: <20051106003536.GA52953@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: twe and giant X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:35:38 -0000 --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--