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30 .Dd July 13, 2001
31 .Dt VM_PAGE_SLEEP_BUSY 9
32 .Os
33 .Sh NAME
34 .Nm vm_page_sleep_busy
35 .Nd "wait for a busy page to become unbusy"
36 .Sh SYNOPSIS
37 .In sys/param.h
38 .In vm/vm.h
39 .In vm/vm_page.h
40 .Ft int
41 .Fn vm_page_sleep_busy "vm_page_t m" "int also_m_busy" "const char *wmesg"
42 .Sh DESCRIPTION
43 The
44 .Fn vm_page_sleep_busy
45 function waits until the
46 .Dv PG_BUSY
47 flag is cleared.
48 If
49 .Fa also_m_busy
50 is non-zero, it also waits for
51 .Fa m->busy
52 to become zero.
53 .Sh RETURN VALUES
54 If
55 .Fn vm_page_sleep_busy
56 finds the page busy it returns
57 .Dv TRUE .
58 If not, it returns
59 .Dv FALSE .
60 Returning
61 .Dv TRUE
62 does not necessary mean that
63 .Fn vm_page_sleep_busy
64 slept, but only that
65 .Fn splvm
66 was called.
67 .Sh AUTHORS
68 This manual page was written by
69 .An Chad David Aq davidc@acns.ab.ca .

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