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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-03 18:29:24 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-03 18:29:24 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks and double whitespaces.
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ bits.
These bits are generally set and cleared in groups based on the device
block size of the device backing the page.
Complete page's worth are often
-referred to using the VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL bitmask (i.e. 0xFF if the hardware page
+referred to using the VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL bitmask (i.e., 0xFF if the hardware page
size is 4096).
.Pp
VM buffers also keep track of a byte-granular dirty range and valid range.
@@ -111,9 +111,10 @@ This
can create confusion within file system devices that use delayed-writes because
you wind up with pages marked clean that are actually still dirty.
If not
-treated carefully, these pages could be thrown away! Indeed, a number of
+treated carefully, these pages could be thrown away!
+Indeed, a number of
serious bugs related to this hack were not fixed until the 2.2.8/3.0 release.
-The kernel uses an instantiated VM buffer (i.e. struct buf) to place-mark pages
+The kernel uses an instantiated VM buffer (i.e., struct buf) to place-mark pages
in this special state.
The buffer is typically flagged B_DELWRI.
When a
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