GIANT lock in 5.4

[Toomas Aas]

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?

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