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29.Dd August 25, 2011
30.Dt SELRECORD 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm seldrain ,
34.Nm selrecord ,
35.Nm selwakeup
36.Nd "record and wakeup select requests"
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/selinfo.h
40.Ft void
41.Fn seldrain "struct selinfo *sip"
42.Ft void
43.Fn selrecord "struct thread *td" "struct selinfo *sip"
44.Ft void
45.Fn selwakeup "struct selinfo *sip"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47.Fn seldrain ,
48.Fn selrecord
49and
50.Fn selwakeup
51are the three central functions used by
52.Xr select 2 ,
53.Xr poll 2
54and the objects that are being selected on.
55They handle the task of recording which threads are waiting on which objects
56and the waking of the proper threads when an event of interest occurs on an
57object.
58.Pp
59.Fn selrecord
60records that the calling thread is interested in events related to a given
61object.
62If another thread is already waiting on the object a collision will be flagged
63in
64.Fa sip
65which will be later dealt with by
66.Fn selwakeup .
67.Pp
68.Fn selrecord
69acquires and releases
70.Va sellock .
71.Pp
72.Fn selwakeup
73is called by the underlying object handling code in order to notify any waiting
74threads that an event of interest has occurred.
75If a collision has occurred,
76.Fn selwakeup
77will increment
78.Va nselcoll ,
79and broadcast on the global cv in order to wake all waiting threads so that
80they can handle it.
81If the thread waiting on the object is not currently sleeping or the wait
82channel is not
83.Va selwait ,
84.Fn selwakeup
85will clear the
86.Dv TDF_SELECT
87flag which should be noted by
88.Xr select 2
89and
90.Xr poll 2
91when they wake up.
92.Pp
93.Fn seldrain
94will flush the waiters queue on a specified object before its
95destruction.
96The object handling code must ensure that
97.Fa *sip
98cannot be used once
99.Fn seldrain
100has been called.
101.Pp
102The contents of
103.Fa *sip
104must be zeroed, such as by softc initialization, before any call to
105.Fn selrecord
106or
107.Fn selwakeup ,
108otherwise a panic may occur.
109.Fn selwakeup
110acquires and releases
111.Va sellock
112and may acquire and release
113.Va sched_lock .
114.Fn seldrain
115could usually be just a wrapper for
116.Fn selwakeup ,
117but consumers should not generally rely on this feature.
118.Sh SEE ALSO
119.Xr poll 2 ,
120.Xr select 2
121.Sh AUTHORS
122.An -nosplit
123This manual page was written by
124.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@FreeBSD.org
125and
126.An Alfred Perlstein Aq Mt alfred@FreeBSD.org .
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