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authortrasz <trasz@FreeBSD.org>2010-02-10 19:03:48 +0000
committertrasz <trasz@FreeBSD.org>2010-02-10 19:03:48 +0000
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Submitted by: brueffer
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
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
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