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author | trasz <trasz@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-02-10 19:03:48 +0000 |
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committer | trasz <trasz@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-02-10 19:03:48 +0000 |
commit | c3b530a4d96d0e1010a7ba327e912233eb4365a3 (patch) | |
tree | 1f5863ebadbeb9030047b3560756911299796b3c /share/man/man9 | |
parent | bf6995c4bbbfb8aaa1158ef20eda599bb138c4cf (diff) | |
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/locking.9 b/share/man/man9/locking.9 index 7dd0809..843ca6f 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/locking.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/locking.9 @@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ Shared/exclusive locks are similar to reader/writer locks; the main difference between them is that shared/exclusive locks may be held during unbounded sleep (and may thus perform an unbounded sleep). They are inherently less efficient than mutexes, reader/writer locks -and read-mostly locks. They don't support priority propagation. +and read-mostly locks. +They don't support priority propagation. They should be considered to be closely related to .Xr sleep 9 . In fact it could in some cases be @@ -192,9 +193,9 @@ Giant is an instance of a mutex, with some special characteristics: It is recursive. .It Drivers and filesystems can request that Giant be locked around them -by not marking themselves MPSAFE. Note that infrastructure to do this -is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE drivers either became properly locked -or disappear. +by not marking themselves MPSAFE. +Note that infrastructure to do this is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE +drivers either became properly locked or disappear. .It Giant must be locked first before other locks. .It |