Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:28:56 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: GIANT lock in 5.4 Message-ID: <4353ED68.5010500@raad.tartu.ee>
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Hello! I'm in a process of upgrading our FreeBSD 5.3 servers to 5.4. Two done, one to go. I noticed that the Giant lock is no longer mentioned in dmesg during boot. With FreeBSD 5.3, several devices (for example: ips, ahc, atkbd) had a note similar to this in dmesg: ips0: <IBM ServeRAID Adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfeb00000-0xfebfffff irq 9 at device 1.0 on pci0 ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED] With FreeBSD 5.4, the [GIANT-LOCKED] message no longer appears. Does that mean that Giant lock has been removed from all those drivers, or is the message simply not printed? --- ... You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just finished reading.
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