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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man9 Add a FUNCTIONS section.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/9ebd5f0f8090
branches: trunk
changeset: 753858:9ebd5f0f8090
user: jruoho <jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Mon Apr 12 21:28:55 2010 +0000
description:
Add a FUNCTIONS section.
In addition, small improvements to wording and markup.
diffstat:
share/man/man9/fstrans.9 | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diffs (116 lines):
diff -r bad7a267243b -r 9ebd5f0f8090 share/man/man9/fstrans.9
--- a/share/man/man9/fstrans.9 Mon Apr 12 21:28:23 2010 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man9/fstrans.9 Mon Apr 12 21:28:55 2010 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: fstrans.9,v 1.14 2009/06/24 22:39:40 zafer Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: fstrans.9,v 1.15 2010/04/12 21:28:55 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 2, 2007
+.Dd April 13, 2010
.Dt FSTRANS 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -77,68 +77,76 @@
.Dv "mnt_iflag" .
.Pp
File systems are always in one of these states:
+.Pp
.Bl -tag -offset indent -width FSTRANS_SUSPENDING -compact
.It Dv FSTRANS_NORMAL
-normal operations.
+Normal operations.
.It Dv FSTRANS_SUSPENDING
-preparing a suspension.
+Preparing a suspension.
.It Dv FSTRANS_SUSPENDED
-suspended.
+Suspended.
.El
+.Pp
This state is represented by
.Vt "enum fstrans_state" .
-.Bl -tag -width compact
-.It Fn fstrans_getstate "mp"
-returns the current state of the file system
-.Fa mp .
-.Pp
-.It Fn fstrans_setstate "mp" "new_state"
-changes the state of the file system
-.Fa mp
-to
-.Fa new_state .
-.El
.Pp
All file system operations use a
.Em "fstrans lock" .
This lock is recursive.
A thread already owning a lock will always get another lock.
The lock has two variants:
-.Bl -tag -offset indent -width FSTRANS_SHARED -compact
+.Bl -tag -offset indent -width FSTRANS_SHARED
.It Dv FSTRANS_SHARED
-this lock will be granted if the file system is in state
+A lock that will be granted if the file system is in state
.Dv FSTRANS_NORMAL .
.It Dv FSTRANS_LAZY
-this lock will be granted if the file system is in state
+A lock that will be granted if the file system is in state
.Dv FSTRANS_NORMAL
or
.Dv FSTRANS_SUSPENDING .
It needs special care because operations using this variant will not block
while the file system prepares suspension.
.El
+.Pp
The lock variant is represented by
.Vt "enum fstrans_lock_type" .
+.Sh FUNCTIONS
+The following functions comprise the
+.Tn API
+provided by
+.Nm .
.Bl -tag -width compact
+.It Fn fstrans_getstate "mp"
+Returns the current state of the file system
+.Fa mp .
+.It Fn fstrans_setstate "mp" "new_state"
+Changes the state of the file system
+.Fa mp
+to
+.Fa new_state .
.It Fn fstrans_start "mp" "lock_type"
-sets a lock of type
+Sets a lock of type
.Fa lock_type
on the file system
.Fa mp .
.It Fn fstrans_start_nowait "mp" "lock_type"
-will not wait for a state change of the file system when attempting to
+Like
+.Fn fstrans_start ,
+but will not wait for a state change of the file system when attempting to
acquire the lock.
The thread may still sleep while attempting to acquire the lock.
.It Fn fstrans_done "mp"
-releases a lock on the file system
+Releases a lock on the file system
.Fa mp .
.It Fn fstrans_is_owner "mp"
-returns
+Returns
.Dv true
if this thread is currently suspending the file system
.Fa mp .
.It Fn fscow_establish "mp" "func" "cookie"
Establish a copy-on-write callback for the file system
.Fa mp .
+The function
.Fa func
will be called for every buffer written through this file system.
.It Fn fscow_disestablish "mp" "func" "cookie"
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