[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man9 update uvm_page_physload() description for "w...

[drochner <drochner%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/26159b0f94d7
branches:  trunk
changeset: 532203:26159b0f94d7
user:      drochner <drochner%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sun Jun 02 14:59:11 2002 +0000

description:
update uvm_page_physload() description for "waitok" and "nsegs"
obeyed now, and clarify "rlist" initialization.

diffstat:

 share/man/man9/uvm.9 |  15 +++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diffs (31 lines):

diff -r 5c8cbbbb5494 -r 26159b0f94d7 share/man/man9/uvm.9
--- a/share/man/man9/uvm.9      Sun Jun 02 14:56:47 2002 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man9/uvm.9      Sun Jun 02 14:59:11 2002 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: uvm.9,v 1.33 2002/03/29 08:56:31 manu Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: uvm.9,v 1.34 2002/06/02 14:59:11 drochner Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Matthew R. Green
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -619,11 +619,18 @@
 .Fa boundary
 is non-zero, no segment of the list may cross this power-of-two
 boundary, relative to zero.
-The
 .Fa nsegs
-and
+is the maximum number of physically contigous segments. If
+.Fa waitok
+is non-zero, the function may sleep until enough memory is available.
+(It also may give up in some situations, so a non-zero
 .Fa waitok
-arguments are currently ignored.
+does not imply that
+.Fn uvm_pglistalloc
+cannot return an error.) The allocated memory is returned in the
+.Fa rlist
+list; the caller has to provide storage only, the list is initialized by
+.Fn uvm_pglistalloc .
 .Pp
 .Fn uvm_pglistfree
 frees the list of pages pointed to by