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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man9 Improve wording and macro usage.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/0a9975929c4f
branches: trunk
changeset: 337785:0a9975929c4f
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Mon Apr 27 10:37:20 2015 +0000
description:
Improve wording and macro usage.
diffstat:
share/man/man9/pci_msi.9 | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diffs (152 lines):
diff -r bc7e9acccefe -r 0a9975929c4f share/man/man9/pci_msi.9
--- a/share/man/man9/pci_msi.9 Mon Apr 27 10:32:22 2015 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man9/pci_msi.9 Mon Apr 27 10:37:20 2015 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pci_msi.9,v 1.1 2015/04/27 07:03:57 knakahara Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pci_msi.9,v 1.2 2015/04/27 10:37:20 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd April 8, 2015
-.Dt PCI_MSI 9 (DRAFT)
+.Dt PCI_MSI 9
.Os
-.Sh NAME (DRAFT)
+.Sh NAME
.Nm pci_msi ,
-.Nm pci_msix,
+.Nm pci_msix ,
.Nm pci_msi_count ,
.Nm pci_msi_alloc ,
.Nm pci_msi_alloc_exact ,
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
.Nm pci_intx_release
.Nd PCI MSI{,-X} manipulation functions
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.In NOTYET
.Ft int
.Fn pci_msi_count "struct pci_attach_args *pa"
.Ft int
@@ -90,12 +89,11 @@
.Ft void
.Fn pci_intx_release "pci_intr_handle_t *pih"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-XXX This decument describes draft APIs. These APIs may change later.
-.Pp
The
.Nm
functions exist to allow device drivers to use MSI/MSI-X.
-When the system use MSI/MSI-X, it must define a __HAVE_PCI_MSI_MSIX
+When the system uses MSI/MSI-X, it must define the
+.Dv __HAVE_PCI_MSI_MSIX
build option.
.Pp
Each driver has an
@@ -113,28 +111,29 @@
it should pass the
.Ft struct pci_attach_args *
and
-.Ft count
+.Fa count
.Fn pci_msi_alloc
or
.Fn pci_msi_alloc_exact
-functions, which returns zero on success, and nonzero on failure.
-When the functions successed, set the pointer to allocated handle
-array to
+functions, which return zero on success, and nonzero on failure.
+When the functions are successful, they return the pointer to the
+allocated handle array in
.Ft pihs
whose size is
.Ft count
-or less. The difference between
+or less.
+The difference between
.Fn pci_msi_alloc
and
.Fn pci_msi_alloc_exact
-is
-.Ft count
+is whether
+.Fa count
can be decremented or not.
.Fn pci_msi_alloc
can decrement
-.Ft count ,
-and
-which is similar to FreeBSD's
+.Fa count ,
+and which is similar to
+.Fx Ap s
.Fn pci_alloc_msi .
In contrast,
.Fn pci_msi_alloc_exact
@@ -148,7 +147,7 @@
.Fn pci_msi_string
should be at least
.Dv PCI_INTRSTR_LEN
-bytes.
+bytes long.
.Pp
Subsequently, when the driver is prepared to receive MSIs, it
should call
@@ -168,43 +167,43 @@
.Fn pci_msi_disestablish
to disable the interrupt handler
when the driver is no longer interested in MSIs from the device.
-After that, the driver should also
+After that, the driver should also call
.Fn pci_msi_release
to free resources about MSI.
.Pp
If a driver wishes to establish an MSI-X handler for the device,
-it is alomost the same as MSI.
+it is almost the same as MSI.
The only differences is
.Fn pci_msix_alloc_map .
-This function can assign each handles to MSI-X table entries.
-e.g. If the driver want assign each handler to
+This function can assign separate handlers for each MSI-X table
+entry.
+I.e., if the driver wants to assign the handlers in the following way:
.Bd -literal
msix_handler0 => MSI-X table index: 4
msix_handler1 => MSI-X table index: 5
msix_handler2 => MSI-X table index: 0
.Ed
-, the driver should set
+the driver should set
+.Fa table_indexes
+this way:
.Bd -literal
table_indexes[0] = 4;
table_indexes[1] = 5;
table_indexes[2] = 0;
.Ed
-to
-.Ft table_indexes .
.Pp
-If the driver want to fallback to INTx, the driver should use
+If the driver wants to fall back to INTx, the driver should use
.Fn pci_intx_alloc
and
.Fn pci_intx_release
instead of
.Fn pci_intr_map
to resolve contradiction of the interrupt handler ownership.
-i.e.
+I.e.,
.Fn pci_intr_map
-does not have the ownership (the function just calcurates value),
+does not have the ownership (the function just calculates value),
in contrast,
.Fn pci_msi_alloc
and
.Fn pci_msix_alloc
-has the owneship (the functions allocate memory for interrupt
-handlers).
+have (the functions allocate memory for interrupt handlers).
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