Killing Giant for 13

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Nov 26 20:26:45 UTC 2019


On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:35 AM Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:21:20 -0700
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> > However, the hpt27xx driver turns out not to be Giant locked on
> > versions of FreeBSD >= 10. So it's off the list.
>
> Is that a real list that could be made publicly available, so users can
> check if any of the hardware they use will be affected?
>

I've started doing an audit. Once the audit is done, I'll post the final
list of drivers that weren't trivial to make not depend on Giant. I'll post
after thanksgiving (so about a week or two).

Warner


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