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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man9/vm_fault_prefault.9 4.html b/static/freebsd/man9/vm_fault_prefault.9 4.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f73900c --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man9/vm_fault_prefault.9 4.html @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +<table class="head"> + <tr> + <td class="head-ltitle">VM_FAULT_PREFAULT(9)</td> + <td class="head-vol">Kernel Developer's Manual</td> + <td class="head-rtitle">VM_FAULT_PREFAULT(9)</td> + </tr> +</table> +<div class="manual-text"> +<section class="Sh"> +<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1> +<p class="Pp"><code class="Nm">vm_fault_prefault</code> — + <span class="Nd">cluster page faults into a process's address + space</span></p> +</section> +<section class="Sh"> +<h1 class="Sh" id="SYNOPSIS"><a class="permalink" href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></h1> +<p class="Pp"><code class="In">#include + <<a class="In">sys/param.h</a>></code> + <br/> + <code class="In">#include <<a class="In">vm/vm.h</a>></code> + <br/> + <code class="In">#include <<a class="In">vm/pmap.h</a>></code></p> +<p class="Pp"><var class="Ft">void</var> + <br/> + <code class="Fn">vm_fault_prefault</code>(<var class="Fa" style="white-space: nowrap;">pmap_t + pmap</var>, <var class="Fa" style="white-space: nowrap;">vm_offset_t + addra</var>, <var class="Fa" style="white-space: nowrap;">vm_map_entry_t + entry</var>);</p> +</section> +<section class="Sh"> +<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1> +<p class="Pp">The + <a class="permalink" href="#vm_fault_prefault"><code class="Fn" id="vm_fault_prefault">vm_fault_prefault</code></a>() + function provides a means of clustering pagefaults into a process's address + space. It operates upon the physical map <var class="Fa">pmap</var>. The + <var class="Fa">entry</var> argument specifies the entry to be prefaulted; + the <var class="Fa">addra</var> argument specifies the beginning of the + mapping in the process's virtual address space.</p> +<p class="Pp" id="vm_fault">It is typically called by + <a class="permalink" href="#vm_fault"><code class="Fn">vm_fault</code></a>() + after the first page fault. It benefits the <a class="Xr">execve(2)</a> + system call by eliminating repetitive calls to + <code class="Fn">vm_fault</code>(), which would otherwise be made to bring + the process's executable pages into physical memory.</p> +</section> +<section class="Sh"> +<h1 class="Sh" id="IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES"><a class="permalink" href="#IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES">IMPLEMENTATION + NOTES</a></h1> +<p class="Pp">This is a machine-independent function which calls the + machine-dependent <a class="Xr">pmap_is_prefaultable(9)</a> helper function + to determine if a page may be prefaulted into physical memory.</p> +</section> +<section class="Sh"> +<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE + ALSO</a></h1> +<p class="Pp"><a class="Xr">execve(2)</a>, + <a class="Xr">pmap_is_prefaultable(9)</a></p> +</section> +<section class="Sh"> +<h1 class="Sh" id="AUTHORS"><a class="permalink" href="#AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></h1> +<p class="Pp">This manual page was written by <span class="An">Bruce M + Simpson</span> + <<a class="Mt" href="mailto:bms@spc.org">bms@spc.org</a>>.</p> +</section> +</div> +<table class="foot"> + <tr> + <td class="foot-date">July 21, 2003</td> + <td class="foot-os">FreeBSD 15.0</td> + </tr> +</table> |
