freebsd-skq/share/man/man9/pmap_release.9
Bruce M Simpson 8019c643f1 Add manual page documentation for the machine-independent PMAP subsystem.
Include documentation of alc's new pmap_extract_and_hold() function.

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Approved by:	jake (mentor)
2003-09-25 19:14:40 +00:00

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.Dd July 21, 2003
.Dt PMAP_RELEASE 9
.Sh NAME
.Nm pmap_release
.Nd release resources held by a physical map
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In vm/vm.h
.In vm/pmap.h
.Ft void
.Fn pmap_release "pmap_t pmap"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn pmap_release
function releases any resources held by the physical map
.Fa pmap .
This function is
called when a pmap initialized by the corresponding function,
.Fn pmap_pinit
is being released.
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
This function should only be called if
.Fa pmap
no longer contains any valid mappings.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pmap 9 ,
.Xr pmap_pinit 9
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An Bruce M Simpson Aq bms@spc.org .