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@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ Shared/exclusive locks are similar to reader/writer locks; the main difference
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between them is that shared/exclusive locks may be held during unbounded sleep
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(and may thus perform an unbounded sleep).
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They are inherently less efficient than mutexes, reader/writer locks
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and read-mostly locks. They don't support priority propagation.
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and read-mostly locks.
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They don't support priority propagation.
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They should be considered to be closely related to
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.Xr sleep 9 .
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In fact it could in some cases be
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@ -192,9 +193,9 @@ Giant is an instance of a mutex, with some special characteristics:
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It is recursive.
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.It
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Drivers and filesystems can request that Giant be locked around them
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by not marking themselves MPSAFE. Note that infrastructure to do this
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is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE drivers either became properly locked
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or disappear.
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by not marking themselves MPSAFE.
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Note that infrastructure to do this is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE
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drivers either became properly locked or disappear.
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.It
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Giant must be locked first before other locks.
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