Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3

2005-03-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:51:15AM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
 Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ?
 
 
 It's just a status message, under earlier versions (4.x) the ENTIRE
 KERNEL was giant locked.
 
 Kris
 
 The GIANT-LOCKED status message is not displayed in 5.2 also ?

No, but most (more) of the drivers still are giant-locked.  The
message was added later in the 5.x development cycle as more drivers
started getting out from underneath Giant and so it made sense to
start pointing them out to developers as areas for future work.

Kris

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Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3

2005-03-07 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
Hi,
Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ?
I have on the same machine running 5.2 which does not have any 
giant-locked in dmesg.

The only difference is that I changed the bios to boot 5.3 from the 
3ware raid drive. (oh, and I disabled a lot unused drivers in the 5.3 
kernel config.)

Thanks.
-chacs
5.3 messages:
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 
1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: The Regents of the University of 
California. All rights reserved.
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar  7 17:46:05 
EST 2005
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YMIR
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz 
quality 0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium III (801.82-MHz 
686-class CPU)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0x686 
Stepping = 6
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: 
Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: real memory  = 536858624 (511 MB)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: avail memory = 519880704 (495 MB)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: ACPI APIC Table: ASUS   P2B-DS  
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System 
Detected: 2 CPUs
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  1
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: npx0: [FAST]
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: npx0: math processor on motherboard
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: acpi0: ASUS P2B-DS on motherboard
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: acpi0: Overriding SCI Interrupt from IRQ 9 
to IRQ 20
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 
Hz quality 1000
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz 
port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 
0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: agp0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI 
bridge mem 0xe400-0xe7ff at device 0.0 on pci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no 
driver attached)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 4.0 on pci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: isa0: ISA bus on isab0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: atapci0: Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller 
port 0xd800-0xd80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 4.1 on pci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pci0: serial bus, USB at device 4.2 (no 
driver attached)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pci0: bridge, PCI-unknown at device 4.3 
(no driver attached)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pci0: mass storage, SCSI at device 6.0 
(no driver attached)
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: dc0: ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX port 
0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xe080-0xe08003ff irq 19at device 9.0 on pci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: miibus0: MII bus on dc0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media 
interface on miibus0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 
100baseTX-FDX, auto
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: dc0: Ethernet address: 00:20:78:1d:3a:b4
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: dc0: if_start running deferred for Giant
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: dc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: twe0: 3ware Storage Controller. Driver 
version 1.50.01.002 port 0xb400-0xb40f mem 0xdf80-0xdfff irq 17 
at device 11.0 on pci0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: twe0: 2 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.068, 
BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 
0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 
0xc8000-0xc8fff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: pmtimer0 on isa0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300
Mar  7 18:04:13 ymir kernel: vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df 
iomem 

Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3

2005-03-07 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
Hi,
Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ?

It's just a status message, under earlier versions (4.x) the ENTIRE
KERNEL was giant locked.
Kris
The GIANT-LOCKED status message is not displayed in 5.2 also ?
-chacs
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