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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man9 Various fixes and improvements.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/b4a0c55a20a9
branches: trunk
changeset: 341213:b4a0c55a20a9
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Mon Oct 26 09:06:52 2015 +0000
description:
Various fixes and improvements.
Guess what the end of a sentence could be.
diffstat:
share/man/man9/kernhist.9 | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diffs (93 lines):
diff -r c3a9830c0142 -r b4a0c55a20a9 share/man/man9/kernhist.9
--- a/share/man/man9/kernhist.9 Mon Oct 26 09:02:49 2015 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man9/kernhist.9 Mon Oct 26 09:06:52 2015 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: kernhist.9,v 1.1 2015/10/26 07:07:36 mrg Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: kernhist.9,v 1.2 2015/10/26 09:06:52 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Matthew R. Green
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-facility provides a very low-level tracing facility, that can be called
+facility provides a very low-level tracing facility that can be called
extremely early in the kernel initialisation.
It provides a simple restricted
.Xr printf 3
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@
will not work in
.Xr vmstat 1 ,
but will when called from
-.Xr ddb 9 .
+.Xr ddb 4 .
.Pp
A kernel history is a fixed-size buffer of an either statically or dynamically
-allocated buffer, that is used and read in a cycled basis.
+allocated buffer that is used and read in a cycled basis.
It includes the time an entry was made, the CPU that the entry was recorded
from, the
.Xr printf 3
@@ -89,13 +89,15 @@
These macros provide access to most kernel history functionality:
.Bl -tag -width 4n
.It Fn KERNHIST_DECL name
-Declares an extern struct kern_history
+Declare an extern struct kern_history
.Fa name .
.It Fn KERNHIST_DEFINE name
-Defines a struct kern_history
+Define a struct kern_history
.Fa name .
.It Fn KERNHIST_INIT name num_entries
-Dynamically initialise a kernel history called name with
+Dynamically initialise a kernel history called name with
+.Ar num_entries
+entries.
.It Fn KERNHIST_INITIALIZER name buffer
Initialise a statically defined kernel history called
.Fa name
@@ -109,7 +111,7 @@
.Fa buffer
for history entries.
.It Fn KERNHIST_FUNC fname
-Declares necessary variables for
+Declare necessary variables for
.Nm
to be used this function.
Callable only once per function.
@@ -118,7 +120,8 @@
.Fa name ,
log the format and arguments in the history as a unique event.
.It Fn KERNHIST_CALLED name
-Declares a function as being called. Either this or
+Declare a function as being called.
+Either this or
.Fn KERNHIST_CALLARGS
must be used near the function entry point.
.It Fn KERNHIST_CALLARGS name fmt arg0 arg1 arg2 arg3
@@ -128,7 +131,7 @@
.Dq called!
log message in addition to normal arguments.
.It Fn KERNHIST_DUMP name
-Calls
+Call
.Fn kernhist_dump
on the named kernel history.
.It Fn kernhist_dump history
@@ -152,12 +155,12 @@
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vmstat 1 ,
-.Xr usb 9 ,
+.Xr usb 4 ,
.Xr uvm 9
.\" .Sh EXAMPLES
.\"
.\" add example here of code usage
-.\"
+.\"
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
was originally written by
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