cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Oct 26 09:40:32 PDT 2004


In message <200410261219.03262.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Saturday 23 October 2004 04:21 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> phk         2004-10-23 20:21:05 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/kern             vfs_mount.c
>>   Log:
>>   Drop Giant around the call to g_waitidle().
>>   This is necessary to allow any geom events which need it to pick up
>> Giant.
>
>tsleep() already automatically drops Giant for you, so this is not required 
>for geom events to run.

Duh!  I was wondering why it hadn't deadlocked...

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