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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-06 07:12:34 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-06 07:12:34 +0000
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Correct typos in the function name.
mdoc(7) tweaks.
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@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@
.In vm/vm.h
.In vm/pmap.h
.Ft void
-.Fn vm_map_prefault "pmap_t pmap" "vm_offset_t addra" "vm_map_entry_t entry"
+.Fn vm_fault_prefault "pmap_t pmap" "vm_offset_t addra" "vm_map_entry_t entry"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Fn vm_map_prefault
+.Fn vm_fault_prefault
function provides a means of clustering pagefaults into a process's
address space.
It operates upon the physical map
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ It is typically called by
.Fn vm_fault
after the first page fault.
It benefits the
-.Fn exec
+.Xr execve 2
system call by eliminating repetitive calls to
.Fn vm_fault ,
which would otherwise be made to bring the process's executable pages
into physical memory.
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
This is a machine-independent function which calls the machine-dependent
-.Fn pmap_is_prefaultable
+.Xr pmap_is_prefaultable 9
helper function to determine if a page may be prefaulted into physical memory.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr execve 2 ,
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