freebsd-dev/share/man/man9/vm_page_insert.9
Alfred Perlstein 6484c361f7 Document some of the kernel vm_page API as well as the pbuf API.
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.Dd July 17, 2001
.Dt VM_PAGE_INSERT 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vm_page_insert ,
.Nm vm_page_remove
.Nd "add and remove pages from an object"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In vm/vm.h
.In vm/vm_page.h
.Ft void
.Fn vm_page_insert "vm_page_t m" "vm_object_t object" "vm_pindex_t pindex"
.Ft void
.Fn vm_page_remove "vm_page_t m"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn vm_page_insert
function adds a page to the given object at the given index.
The page is added to both the VM page hash table and to the
object's list of pages, but the page tables are not updated.
In the case of a user page, it will be faulted in when it is
accessed.
If the page is a kernel page the caller is expected to
handle adding the page to the kernels pmap.
.Pp
If
.Dv PG_WRITEABLE
is set in the page's flags
.Dv OBJ_WRITEABLE
and
.Dv OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY
are set in the object's flags.
.Pp
The
.Fn vm_page_remove
function removes the given page from it's object, and from the
VM page hash table.
The page must be busy prior to this call or the system will panic.
The pmap entry for the page is not removed by this function.
.Pp
The arguments to
.Fn vm_page_insert
are:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fa object
.It m
The page to add to the object.
.It object
The object the page should be added to.
.It pindex
The index into the object the page should be at.
.El
.Pp
The arguments to
.Fn vm_page_remove
are:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fa m"
.It m
The page to remove.
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
This man page was written by
.An Chad David Aq davidc@acns.ab.ca .