1.\" $NetBSD: vslock.9,v 1.1 1996/06/15 20:47:29 pk Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Paul Kranenburg. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD 20.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its 22.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 23.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 26.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 27.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 28.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE 29.\" LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 30.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 31.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 32.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 33.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 34.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 35.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.Dd Jun 15, 1996 38.Dt VSLOCK 9 39.Os FreeBSD 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm vslock , 42.Nm vsunlock 43.Nd lock/unlock user space addresses in memory 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Ft void 46.Fn vslock "caddr_t addr" "u_int len" 47.Ft void 48.Fn vsunlock "caddr_t addr" "u_int len" 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Fn vslock 52and 53.Fn vsunlock 54functions respectively lock and unlock a range of 55addresses belonging to the currently running process into memory. 56The actual amount of memory locked is a multiple of the machine's page size. 57The starting page number is computed by truncating 58.Fa addr 59to the nearest preceding page boundary, and by rounding up 60.Fa addr + 61.Fa len 62to the next page boundary. 63The process context to use for this operation is taken from the 64global variable 65.Va curproc . 66.Pp 67.\" .Sh SEE ALSO 68.\" .Xr physio 9 69.Sh BUGS 70The process pointer should be passed in as an argument. 71