Commit Graph

29 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Wes Peters
f4cf2141f6 Add a facility allowing processes to inform the VM subsystem they are
critical and should not be killed when pageout is looking for more
memory pages in all the wrong places.

Reviewed by:	arch@
Sponsored by:	St. Bernard Software
2003-03-31 21:09:57 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
dc3b2f9d33 Remove redundant documenation.
PR:		46253
Submitted by:	Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@wxs.nl>
2003-01-06 23:20:55 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
57bd0fc6e8 english(4) police. 2002-12-27 12:15:40 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
2faeeff4c9 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language.
Stop calling system calls "function calls".

Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".

When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8d5d039f80 Uniformly refer to a file system as "file system".
Approved by:	re
2002-12-12 17:26:04 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
7ab2cd8c38 Note that <sys/types.h> in no longer a prerequisite for <utime.h> and
<sys/mman.h>.
2002-08-24 00:39:43 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
32eef9aeb1 mdoc(7) police: Use the new .In macro for #include statements. 2001-10-01 16:09:29 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
b1250632c5 Use the ``.Rv -std'' mdoc(7) macro in appropriate cases.
Reviewed by:	ru
2001-08-09 13:32:13 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
7ebcc426ef Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a2fd3702a3 mdoc(7) police: use canonical form of .Dd macro. 2000-12-11 15:15:20 +00:00
Ben Smithurst
cb17760de7 Remove fullstops from the end of .Xr lines in SEE ALSO section. 2000-11-15 14:40:14 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
25bb73e063 Introduce ".Lb" macro to libc manpages.
More libraries manpages updates following.
2000-04-21 09:42:15 +00:00
Paul Saab
9730a5daab Add MAP_NOCORE to mmap(2), and MADV_NOCORE and MADV_CORE to madvise(2).
This
This feature allows you to specify if mmap'd data is included in
an application's corefile.

Change the type of eflags in struct vm_map_entry from u_char to
vm_eflags_t (an unsigned int).

Reviewed by:	dillon,jdp,alfred
Approved by:	jkh
2000-02-28 04:10:35 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
4f79d873c1 Add MAP_NOSYNC feature to mmap(), and MADV_NOSYNC and MADV_AUTOSYNC to
madvise().

    This feature prevents the update daemon from gratuitously flushing
    dirty pages associated with a mapped file-backed region of memory.  The
    system pager will still page the memory as necessary and the VM system
    will still be fully coherent with the filesystem.  Modifications made
    by other means to the same area of memory, for example by write(), are
    unaffected.  The feature works on a page-granularity basis.

    MAP_NOSYNC allows one to use mmap() to share memory between processes
    without incuring any significant filesystem overhead, putting it in
    the same performance category as SysV Shared memory and anonymous memory.

Reviewed by: julian, alc, dg
1999-12-12 03:19:33 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
aae2142e5f Spelling nits.
Pointed out by: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
1998-06-06 04:56:13 +00:00
Steve Price
32c2131395 Fix a bunch of spelling errors.
PR:		6856
Submitted by:	Josh Gilliam <josh@quick.net>
1998-06-04 21:06:07 +00:00
Alexander Langer
7167d5b04c Convert caddr_t --> void * for sys/mman.h functions.
mlock, mmap, mprotect, msync, munlock, and munmap are defined by
POSIX as taking void *.  The const modifier has been added to
mlock, munlock, and mprotect as the standard dictates.

minherit comes from OpenBSD and has been updated to conform with
their recent change to void *.

madvise and mincore are not defined by POSIX, but their arguments
have been modified to be consistent with the POSIX-defined functions.
mincore takes a const pointer, but madvise does not due to the
MADV_FREE case.

Discussed with:	bde
1997-12-31 01:22:01 +00:00
Alexander Langer
1948b335ba Fixed formatting of the MADV_FREE flag description.
Pointed out by:	bde
1997-12-30 05:17:33 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7e546392b5 Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$ 1997-02-22 15:12:41 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
1130b656e5 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore.  This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1997-01-14 07:20:47 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
bf67a4237e Some mdoc cleanup. Also added a RETURN VALUES and ERRORS
section.

Part of PR# 1493.
1997-01-11 22:51:27 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
e83201b43a delete doubled words, e.g.: "the the" -> "the" 1996-10-05 22:27:30 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
7bdf80e571 Correctly use .Fn instead of .Nm to reference function names
in a bunch of man pages.

Use the correct .Bx  (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.
1996-08-22 23:31:07 +00:00
John Dyson
343999a1b9 Document madvise(2) as it is in FreeBSD. 1996-07-20 04:37:26 +00:00
Peter Wemm
39d11944d4 Document the int -> size_t change to the m* syscalls 1996-03-02 17:34:28 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
8ed714cd80 Submitted by: bruce, davidg, dyson
add a BUG section for mmap with current limitation
section SYNOPSIS completed
1996-02-02 05:06:29 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
3f22919355 note in bugs section: madvise not yet implemented 1996-01-23 23:33:55 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
58f0484fa2 BSD 4.4 Lite Lib Sources 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +00:00