GIANT lock in 5.4
Toomas Aas
toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Mon Oct 17 12:11:11 PDT 2005
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:28:56PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
>
>>Hello!
...
>> 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?
>
> Do you still see it on some other drivers? If so, the former.
grep -i giant /var/run/dmesg.boot comes up blank on all my FreeBSD 5.4
machines: the two RELENG_5_4 servers I've just upgraded and my home
RELENG_5 box.
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