svn commit: r296559 - stable/10/share/man/man9

Konstantin Belousov kib at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 9 10:09:53 UTC 2016


Author: kib
Date: Wed Mar  9 10:09:51 2016
New Revision: 296559
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/296559

Log:
  MFC r295998:
  Remove references to Giant in the description of vrele(9).  Add notes
  about vnode lock and sleeping.
  
  MFC r296001:
  Fix year.

Modified:
  stable/10/share/man/man9/vrele.9
Directory Properties:
  stable/10/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/10/share/man/man9/vrele.9
==============================================================================
--- stable/10/share/man/man9/vrele.9	Wed Mar  9 10:01:28 2016	(r296558)
+++ stable/10/share/man/man9/vrele.9	Wed Mar  9 10:09:51 2016	(r296559)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 20, 2010
+.Dd February 24, 2016
 .Dt VRELE 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -81,9 +81,11 @@ If the
 .Va v_usecount
 field of the non-doomed vnode reaches zero, then it will be inactivated
 and placed on the free list.
-Since the functions might need to call VOPs for the vnode, the
-.Va Giant
-mutex should be conditionally locked around the call.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn vrele
+function may lock the vnode.
+All three functions may sleep.
 .Pp
 The hold count for the vnode is always greater or equal to the usecount.
 Non-forced unmount fails when mount point owns a vnode that has non-zero


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