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diff --git a/bsd/man/man2/mlock.2 b/bsd/man/man2/mlock.2
index be33648c5926b2dbcb9a3abb446ed8f1aea54e6b..64d8226eed08f6071961a95fa811daeb409e3b63 100644 (file)
--- a/bsd/man/man2/mlock.2
+++ b/bsd/man/man2/mlock.2
@@ -41,60 +41,67 @@
 .Nm munlock
 .Nd lock (unlock) physical pages in memory
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm munlock
 .Nd lock (unlock) physical pages in memory
 .Sh SYNOPSIS

-.Fd #include <sys/types.h>

 .Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
 .Ft int
 .Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
 .Ft int

-.Fn mlock "caddr_t addr" "size_t len"
+.Fo mlock
+.Fa "const void *addr"
+.Fa "size_t len"
+.Fc

 .Ft int
 .Ft int

-.Fn munlock "caddr_t addr" "size_t len"
+.Fo munlock
+.Fa "const void *addr"
+.Fa "size_t len"
+.Fc

 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm mlock
 system call
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm mlock
 system call

-locks into memory the physical pages associated with the virtual address
-range starting at
+locks a set of physical pages into memory.
+The pages are associated with a virtual address range
+that starts at

 .Fa addr
 .Fa addr

-for
+and extends for

 .Fa len
 bytes.
 The
 .Nm munlock
 .Fa len
 bytes.
 The
 .Nm munlock

-call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more
+call unlocks pages that were previously locked by one or more

 .Nm mlock
 calls.
 .Nm mlock
 calls.

-For both, the
+For both calls, the

 .Fa addr
 parameter should be aligned to a multiple of the page size.
 If the
 .Fa len
 .Fa addr
 parameter should be aligned to a multiple of the page size.
 If the
 .Fa len

-parameter is not a multiple of the page size, it will be rounded up
-to be so.
+parameter is not a multiple of the page size,
+it will be rounded up to be so.

 The entire range must be allocated.
 .Pp
 After an
 .Nm mlock
 call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page
 nor address-translation fault until they are unlocked.
 The entire range must be allocated.
 .Pp
 After an
 .Nm mlock
 call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page
 nor address-translation fault until they are unlocked.

-They may still cause protection-violation faults or TLB-miss faults on
-architectures with software-managed TLBs.
-The physical pages remain in memory until all locked mappings for the pages
-are removed.
-Multiple processes may have the same physical pages locked via their own
-virtual address mappings.
-A single process may likewise have pages multiply-locked via different virtual
-mappings of the same pages or via nested
+They may still cause protection-violation faults or TLB-miss faults
+on architectures with software-managed TLBs.
+The physical pages remain in memory until all locked mappings
+for the pages are removed.
+.Pp
+Multiple processes may have the same physical pages locked
+via their own virtual address mappings.
+Similarly, a single process may have pages multiply-locked
+via different virtual mappings of the same pages or via nested

 .Nm mlock
 calls on the same address range.
 Unlocking is performed explicitly by
 .Nm munlock
 or implicitly by a call to
 .Nm mlock
 calls on the same address range.
 Unlocking is performed explicitly by
 .Nm munlock
 or implicitly by a call to

-.Nm munmap
+.Nm munmap ,

 which deallocates the unmapped address range.
 Locked mappings are not inherited by the child process after a
 .Xr fork 2 .
 .Pp
 which deallocates the unmapped address range.
 Locked mappings are not inherited by the child process after a
 .Xr fork 2 .
 .Pp

-Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are
-limited in how much they can lock down.
+Because physical memory is a potentially scarce resource,
+processes are limited in how much memory they can lock down.

 A single process can
 .Nm mlock
 the minimum of
 A single process can
 .Nm mlock
 the minimum of


@@ -103,35 +110,75 @@ the per-process
 .Li RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
 resource limit.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 .Li RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
 resource limit.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES

-A return value of 0 indicates that the call
-succeeded and all pages in the range have either been locked or unlocked.
-A return value of -1 indicates an error occurred and the locked
-status of all pages in the range remains unchanged.
+A return value of 0 indicates that the call succeeded
+and all pages in the range have either been locked or unlocked,
+as requested.
+A return value of -1 indicates an error occurred
+and the locked status of all pages in the range remains unchanged.

 In this case, the global location
 .Va errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .Sh ERRORS
 In this case, the global location
 .Va errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .Sh ERRORS

-.Fn Mlock
+.Fn mlock
+and 
+.Fn munlock

 will fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 will fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er

+.\" ===========

 .It Bq Er EINVAL
 .It Bq Er EINVAL

-The address given is not page aligned or the length is negative.
+The address given is not page-aligned or the length is negative.
+.\" ===========
+.It Bq Er ENOMEM
+Part or all of the specified address range
+is not mapped to the process.
+.El
+.Pp
+.Fn mlock
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.\" ===========

 .It Bq Er EAGAIN
 Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process
 limit for locked memory.
 .It Bq Er EAGAIN
 Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process
 limit for locked memory.

+.\" ===========

 .It Bq Er ENOMEM
 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
 There was an error faulting/mapping a page.
 .El
 .It Bq Er ENOMEM
 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
 There was an error faulting/mapping a page.
 .El

-.Fn Munlock
+.Pp
+.Fn munlock

 will fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 will fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er

-.It Bq Er EINVAL
-The address given is not page aligned or the length is negative.
+.\" ===========

 .It Bq Er ENOMEM
 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
 Some portion of the indicated address range is not locked.
 .El
 .It Bq Er ENOMEM
 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
 Some portion of the indicated address range is not locked.
 .El

+.Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
+.Pp
+The include file
+.In sys/types.h
+is necessary.
+.Pp
+.Ft int
+.br
+.Fo mlock
+.Fa "caddr_t addr"
+.Fa "size_t len"
+.Fc ;
+.Pp
+.Ft int
+.br
+.Fo munlock
+.Fa "caddr_t addr"
+.Fa "size_t len"
+.Fc ;
+.Pp
+The variable type of
+.Fa addr
+has changed.

 .Sh "SEE ALSO"
 .Xr fork 2 ,
 .Xr mincore 2 ,
 .Sh "SEE ALSO"
 .Xr fork 2 ,
 .Xr mincore 2 ,


@@ -139,7 +186,8 @@ Some portion of the indicated address range is not locked.
 .Xr mmap 2 ,
 .Xr munmap 2 ,
 .Xr setrlimit 2 ,
 .Xr mmap 2 ,
 .Xr munmap 2 ,
 .Xr setrlimit 2 ,

-.Xr getpagesize 3
+.Xr getpagesize 3 ,
+.Xr compat 5

 .Sh BUGS
 Unlike The Sun implementation, multiple
 .Nm mlock
 .Sh BUGS
 Unlike The Sun implementation, multiple
 .Nm mlock