xref: /freebsd/share/man/man9/VOP_GETPAGES.9 (revision 40a8ac8f62b535d30349faf28cf47106b7041b83)
1.\" -*- nroff -*-
2.\"
3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Doug Rabson
4.\" Copyright 2003, Garrett A. Wollman
5.\"
6.\" All rights reserved.
7.\"
8.\" This program is free software.
9.\"
10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
12.\" are met:
13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
14.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
16.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
17.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
18.\"
19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
21.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
22.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
23.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
24.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
25.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
26.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
27.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
28.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
29.\"
30.\" $FreeBSD$
31.\"
32.Dd September 12, 2014
33.Dt VOP_GETPAGES 9
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm VOP_GETPAGES ,
37.Nm VOP_PUTPAGES
38.Nd read or write VM pages from a file
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In sys/param.h
41.In sys/vnode.h
42.In vm/vm.h
43.Ft int
44.Fn VOP_GETPAGES "struct vnode *vp" "vm_page_t *ma" "int count" "int reqpage"
45.Ft int
46.Fn VOP_PUTPAGES "struct vnode *vp" "vm_page_t *ma" "int count" "int sync" "int *rtvals"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
50method is called to read in pages of virtual memory which are backed by
51ordinary files.
52If other adjacent pages are backed by adjacent regions of the same file,
53.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
54is requested to read those pages as well, although it is not required to
55do so.
56The
57.Fn VOP_PUTPAGES
58method does the converse; that is to say, it writes out adjacent dirty
59pages of virtual memory.
60.Pp
61On entry, the vnode lock is held but neither the page queue nor VM object
62locks are held.
63Both methods return in the same state on both success and error returns.
64.Pp
65The arguments are:
66.Bl -tag -width reqpage
67.It Fa vp
68The file to access.
69.It Fa ma
70Pointer to the first element of an array of pages representing a
71contiguous region of the file to be read or written.
72.It Fa count
73The number of bytes that should be read into the pages of the array.
74.It Fa sync
75.Dv VM_PAGER_PUT_SYNC
76if the write should be synchronous.
77.It Fa rtvals
78An array of VM system result codes indicating the status of each
79page written by
80.Fn VOP_PUTPAGES .
81.It Fa reqpage
82The index in the page array of the requested page; i.e., the one page which
83the implementation of this method must handle.
84.El
85.Pp
86The status of the
87.Fn VOP_PUTPAGES
88method is returned on a page-by-page basis in the array
89.Fa rtvals[] .
90The possible status values are as follows:
91.Bl -tag -width VM_PAGER_ERROR
92.It Dv VM_PAGER_OK
93The page was successfully written.
94The implementation must call
95.Xr vm_page_undirty 9
96to mark the page as clean.
97.It Dv VM_PAGER_PEND
98The page was scheduled to be written asynchronously.
99When the write completes, the completion callback should
100call
101.Xr vm_object_pip_wakeup 9
102and
103.Xr vm_page_sunbusy 9
104to clear the busy flag and awaken any other threads waiting for this page,
105in addition to calling
106.Xr vm_page_undirty 9 .
107.It Dv VM_PAGER_BAD
108The page was entirely beyond the end of the backing file.
109This condition should not be possible if the vnode's file system
110is correctly implemented.
111.It Dv VM_PAGER_ERROR
112The page could not be written because of an error on the underlying storage
113medium or protocol.
114.It Dv VM_PAGER_FAIL
115Treated identically to
116.Dv VM_PAGER_ERROR .
117.It Dv VM_PAGER_AGAIN
118The page was not handled by this request.
119.El
120.Pp
121The
122.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
123method is expected to release any pages in
124.Fa ma
125that it does not successfully handle, by calling
126.Xr vm_page_free 9 .
127When it succeeds,
128.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
129must set the valid bits appropriately.
130.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
131must keep
132.Fa reqpage
133busy.
134It must unbusy all other successfully handled pages and put them
135on appropriate page queue(s).
136For example,
137.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
138may either activate a page (if its wanted bit is set)
139or deactivate it (otherwise), and finally call
140.Xr vm_page_xunbusy 9
141to arouse any threads currently waiting for the page to be faulted in.
142.Sh RETURN VALUES
143If it successfully reads
144.Fa ma[reqpage] ,
145.Fn VOP_GETPAGES
146returns
147.Dv VM_PAGER_OK ;
148otherwise,
149.Dv VM_PAGER_ERROR .
150By convention, the return value of
151.Fn VOP_PUTPAGES
152is
153.Fa rtvals[0] .
154.Sh SEE ALSO
155.Xr vm_object_pip_wakeup 9 ,
156.Xr vm_page_free 9 ,
157.Xr vm_page_sunbusy 9 ,
158.Xr vm_page_undirty 9 ,
159.Xr vm_page_xunbusy 9 ,
160.Xr vnode 9
161.Sh AUTHORS
162This manual page was written by
163.An Doug Rabson
164and then substantially rewritten by
165.An Garrett Wollman .
166