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39.Dd June 15, 1996
40.Dt VSLOCK 9
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm vslock ,
44.Nm vsunlock
45.Nd lock/unlock user space addresses in memory
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.In sys/param.h
48.In sys/proc.h
49.In vm/vm.h
50.In vm/vm_extern.h
51.Ft void
52.Fn vslock "caddr_t addr" "u_int len"
53.Ft void
54.Fn vsunlock "caddr_t addr" "u_int len"
55.Sh DESCRIPTION
56The
57.Fn vslock
58and
59.Fn vsunlock
60functions respectively lock and unlock a range of
61addresses belonging to the currently running process into memory.
62The actual amount of memory locked is a multiple of the machine's page size.
63The starting page number is computed by truncating
64.Fa addr
65to the nearest preceding page boundary, and by rounding up
66.Fa addr +
67.Fa len
68to the next page boundary.
69The process context to use for this operation is taken from the
70global variable
71.Va curproc .
72.Pp
73.\" .Sh SEE ALSO
74.\" .Xr physio 9
75.Sh BUGS
76The process pointer should be passed in as an argument.
77