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| author |   jmatthew <jmatthew@openbsd.org> | 2017-09-05 03:49:56 +0000 |
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| committer | jmatthew <jmatthew@openbsd.org> | 2017-09-05 03:49:56 +0000 |
| commit | 84eb796f31be5cb26d74c92cc2583b24360b30b0 (patch) | |
| tree | b1f20ed5e5f9236f42cfcf5d398f9c0282ce3a4c | |
| parent | New POSIX xlocale implementation written from scratch. (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-84eb796f31be5cb26d74c92cc2583b24360b30b0.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-84eb796f31be5cb26d74c92cc2583b24360b30b0.zip | |
bring mi_switch() manpage up to date
ok mpi@ guenther@
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/mi_switch.9 | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/mi_switch.9 b/share/man/man9/mi_switch.9 index b04179fa79d..b8ecea18e9e 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/mi_switch.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/mi_switch.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mi_switch.9,v 1.6 2017/07/06 15:42:04 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mi_switch.9,v 1.7 2017/09/05 03:49:56 jmatthew Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: ctxsw.9,v 1.9 1999/03/06 22:09:29 mycroft Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 6 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 5 2017 $ .Dt MI_SWITCH 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -54,11 +54,12 @@ The three major uses of can be enumerated as follows: .Bl -enum -offset indent .It -From within -.Xr tsleep 9 -when the current process -voluntarily relinquishes the CPU to wait for some resource to become -available. +From within functions like +.Xr tsleep 9 , +when the current process sleeps to wait for some resource to become +available, or from within functions like +.Fn yield , +when it relinquishes the CPU to allow other processes to make progress. .It After handling a trap .Pq e.g., a system call or device interrupt @@ -85,8 +86,6 @@ Exceeding the soft limit results in a signal to be posted to the process, while exceeding the hard limit will cause a .Dv SIGKILL . -For a process which accumulated longer than 10 minutes of -CPU time, its nice level is raised to 4. After these administrative tasks are done, .Fn mi_switch chooses the next process to run and hands over control to the machine @@ -105,8 +104,7 @@ Note that .Fn mi_switch and thus .Fn cpu_switchto -should be called at -.Xr splhigh 9 . +must be called while holding the scheduler lock. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr spl 9 , .Xr tsleep 9 , |