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+.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Poul-Henning Kamp
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd February 8, 2003
+.Dt LIBGEOM 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm geom_stats_open ,
+.Nm geom_stats_close ,
+.Nm geom_stats_resync ,
+.Nm geom_stats_snapshot_get ,
+.Nm geom_stats_snapshot_free ,
+.Nm geom_stats_snapshot_timestamp ,
+.Nm geom_stats_snapshot_reset ,
+.Nm geom_stats_snapshot_next
+.Nd userland API library for kernel GEOM subsystem
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libgeom
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In libgeom.h
+.Ss "Statistics functions"
+.Ft void
+.Fn geom_stats_close void
+.Ft int
+.Fn geom_stats_open void
+.Ft void
+.Fn geom_stats_resync void
+.Ft void *
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_get void
+.Ft void
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_free "void *arg"
+.Ft void
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_timestamp "void *arg" "struct timespec *tp"
+.Ft void
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_reset "void *arg"
+.Ft struct g_stat *
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_next "void *arg"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Libgeom
+is the library which contains the official and publicized API for
+interacting with the GEOM subsystem in the kernel.
+.Ss "Statistics functions"
+GEOM collects statistics data for all consumers and providers, but does
+not perform any normalization or presentation on the raw data, this is
+left as an excercize for user-land presentation utilities.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn geom_stats_open
+and 
+.Fn geom_stats_close
+functions opens and closes the necessary pathways to access the raw 
+statistics information in the kernel.  These functions are likely to
+open one or more files and cache the filedescriptors locally.
+.Fn geom_stats_open
+returns zero on success, and sets errno if not.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn geom_stats_resync
+function will check if more statistics collection points have been
+added in the kernel since
+.Fn geom_stats_open
+or the previous call to
+.Fn geom_stats_resync .
+.Pp
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_get
+will aquire a snapshot of the raw data from the kernel and while a
+reasonable effort is made to make this snapshot as atomic and consistent
+as possible, no guarantee is given that it will actually be so.
+The snapshot must be freed again using the
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_free
+function.
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_get
+returns NULL on failure.
+.Pp
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_timestamp
+provides access to the timestamp aquired in the snapshot.
+.Pp
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_reset
+and
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_next
+provides an iterator over the statistics slots in the snapshot.
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_reset
+forces the internal pointer in the snapshot back to before the first item.
+.Fn geom_stats_snapshot_next
+returns the next item and NULL if there are no more items in the snapshot.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq phk@FreeBSD.org
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm geom
+library appeard in
+.Fx 5.1 .