On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Yury Tarasievich wrote: > I need to port some driver from linux to freebsd and, somehow, I can't > find documentation on kernel locks and mutexes. There are no man pages, > links from handbook are broken, and search on freebsd site gives nothing > (besides the handbook itself).
On 5.0-CURRENT, the following man pages may be of use to you: SMPng primitives (prefered for new code): mutex(9) Kernel synchronization primitives mtx_pool(9) Mutex pool routines condvar(9) Kernel condition variable sx(9) Kernel shared/exclusive lock sema(9) Kernel counting semaphores msleep(9) Wait for events Old-style BSD locking primitives: lockmgr(9) Lockmgr family of functions I believe these man pages may also be accessible via the FreeBSD web page. Also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/locking.html A chapter from the Developer's Handbook on kernel locking. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
