On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:11:07PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > 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.
The message was surpressed, then. It did generate a lot of confusion from users who didn't realise that "Giant locked" was the state of the *entire kernel* in 4.x and thought that this was a regression in 5.x. Kris
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