freebsd-nq/share/man/man9/vm_page_sleep_busy.9
Alfred Perlstein 6484c361f7 Document some of the kernel vm_page API as well as the pbuf API.
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.Dd July 13, 2001
.Dt VM_PAGE_SLEEP_BUSY 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vm_page_sleep_busy
.Nd "wait for a busy page to become unbusy"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In vm/vm.h
.In vm/vm_page.h
.Ft int
.Fn vm_page_sleep_busy "vm_page_t m" "int also_m_busy" "const char *wmesg"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn vm_page_sleep_busy
function waits until the
.Dv PG_BUSY
flag is cleared.
If
.Fa also_m_busy
is non-zero, it also waits for
.Fa m->busy
to become zero.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If
.Fn vm_page_sleep_busy
finds the page busy it returns
.Dv TRUE .
If not, it returns
.Dv FALSE .
Returning
.Dv TRUE
does not necessary mean that
.Fn vm_page_sleep_busy
slept, but only that
.Fn splvm
was called.
.Sh AUTHORS
This man page was written by
.An Chad David Aq davidc@acns.ab.ca .