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authorpjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org>2004-02-11 10:06:18 +0000
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Added first part of GEOM kernel API manuals pages.
Documented function and macros are: - DECLARE_GEOM_CLASS(), - g_attach(), - g_detach(), - g_new_bio(), - g_clone_bio(), - g_destroy_bio(), - g_new_consumer(), - g_destroy_consumer(), - g_read_data(), - g_write_data(), - g_post_event(), - g_waitfor_event(), - g_cancel_event(), - g_new_geomf(), - g_destroy_geom(), - g_new_providerf(), - g_destroy_provider(), - g_error_provider(), - g_provider_by_name(), - g_wither_geom(). and more to come. I want to thanks following people for help with those documents: Slawek Zak <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> Simon L. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> Pieter de Boer <g.p.de.boer@st.hanze.nl> and of course Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Reviewed by: phk, scottl Approved by: phk, scottl (mentor)
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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd January 16, 2004
+.Dt g_wither_geom 9
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm g_wither_geom
+.Nd "destroy geom and releated providers and consumers when you get a chance"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In geom/geom.h
+.Ft void
+.Fn g_wither_geom "struct g_geom *gp" "int error"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn g_wither_geom
+function tells GEOM that geom
+.Fa gp
+is to be destroyed.
+GEOM sets an error for every provider related to the given geom (in
+orphan process) and waits for a chance to destroy the geom.
+If access count of any possessed consumer goes to 0, consumer will be
+detached and destroyed automatically.
+If last consumer attached to any possesed provider will be detached,
+provider will be destroyed.
+If there are no more providers nor consumers, the geom will be
+destroyed.
+.Pp
+This is an automatic
+.Dq garbage collect
+to avoid duplicated code in all classes.
+Before it is called, field
+.Va softc
+should be disposed off and set to
+.Dv NULL .
+Note that the
+.Fn g_wither_geom
+function gives no guarantee that geom will be immediately destroyed, mostly
+because access counts of corresponding consumers and providers may not be 0.
+That is why calling this function for every geom from given class is not enough
+to be sure that class can be unloaded.
+.Sh RESTRICTIONS/CONDITIONS
+The argument
+.Fa error
+must be nonzero.
+.Pp
+The topology lock has to be held.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr DECLARE_GEOM_CLASS 9 ,
+.Xr geom 4 ,
+.Xr g_attach 9 ,
+.Xr g_bio 9 ,
+.Xr g_consumer 9 ,
+.Xr g_data 9 ,
+.Xr g_event 9 ,
+.Xr g_geom 9 ,
+.Xr g_provider 9 ,
+.Xr g_provider_by_name 9
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+This manual page was written by
+.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org .
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