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29.Dd January 19, 2014
30.Dt LOCK 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm lockinit ,
34.Nm lockcount ,
35.Nm lockmgr ,
36.Nm lockstatus ,
37.Nm lockmgr_printinfo ,
38.Nm lockowned
39.Nd "lockmgr family of functions"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.In sys/types.h
42.In sys/lock.h
43.Ft void
44.Fn lockinit "struct lock *lkp" "const char *wmesg" "int timo" "int flags"
45.Ft void
46.Fn lockuninit "struct lock *lkp"
47.Ft int
48.Fn lockcount "struct lock *lkp"
49.Ft int
50.Fn lockcountnb "struct lock *lkp"
51.Ft int
52.Fn lockmgr "struct lock *lkp" "u_int flags"
53.Ft int
54.Fn lockstatus "struct lock *lkp" "struct thread *td"
55.Ft void
56.Fn lockmgr_printinfo "struct lock *lkp"
57.Ft int
58.Fn lockowned "struct lock *lkp"
59.Sh DESCRIPTION
60The
61.Fn lockinit
62function is used to initialize a lock.
63It must be called before any operation can be performed on a lock.
64Its arguments are:
65.Bl -tag -width ".Fa wmesg"
66.It Fa lkp
67A pointer to the lock to initialize.
68.It Fa wmesg
69The lock message.
70This is used for both debugging output and
71.Xr tsleep 9 .
72.It Fa timo
73The timeout value passed to
74.Xr tsleep 9 .
75.It Fa flags
76The flags the lock is to be initialized with.
77.Bl -tag -width ".Dv LK_CANRECURSE"
78.It Dv LK_NOWAIT
79Do not sleep while acquiring the lock.
80.It Dv LK_SLEEPFAIL
81Fail after a sleep.
82.It Dv LK_CANRECURSE
83Allow recursive exclusive locks.
84.It Dv LK_TIMELOCK
85Use
86.Fa timo
87during a sleep; otherwise, 0 is used.
88.El
89.El
90.Pp
91The
92.Fn lockuninit
93function destroys a lock that was previously initialized using
94.Fn lockinit .
95.Pp
96The
97.Fn lockcount
98function returns a count of the number of exclusive locks and shared locks
99held against the lock
100.Fa lkp .
101.Pp
102The
103.Fn lockcountnb
104function is a non-blocking counter-part of
105.Fn lockcount .
106which, can be safely used in assertion statements e.g. a
107.Xr KASSERT 9 .
108.Pp
109The
110.Fn lockmgr
111function handles general locking functionality within the kernel, including
112support for shared and exclusive locks, and recursion.
113.Fn lockmgr
114is also able to upgrade and downgrade locks.
115.Pp
116Its arguments are:
117.Bl -tag -width ".Fa flags"
118.It Fa lkp
119A pointer to the lock to manipulate.
120.It Fa flags
121Flags indicating what action is to be taken.
122.Bl -tag -width ".Dv LK_EXCLUPGRADE"
123.It Dv LK_SHARED
124Acquire a shared lock.
125If an exclusive lock is currently held, it will be downgraded.
126.It Dv LK_EXCLUSIVE
127Acquire an exclusive lock.
128If an exclusive lock is already held, and
129.Dv LK_CANRECURSE
130is not set, the system will
131.Xr panic 9 .
132.It Dv LK_DOWNGRADE
133Downgrade exclusive lock to a shared lock.
134Downgrading a shared lock is not permitted.
135If an exclusive lock has been recursed, all references will be downgraded.
136.It Dv LK_EXCLUPGRADE
137Upgrade a shared lock to an exclusive lock.
138Fails with
139.Er EBUSY
140if there is someone ahead of you in line waiting for an upgrade.
141If this call fails, the shared lock is lost.
142Attempts to upgrade an exclusive lock will cause a
143.Xr panic 9 .
144.It Dv LK_UPGRADE
145Upgrade a shared lock to an exclusive lock.
146If this call fails, the shared lock is lost.
147Attempts to upgrade an exclusive lock will cause a
148.Xr panic 9 .
149.It Dv LK_RELEASE
150Release the lock.
151Releasing a lock that is not held can cause a
152.Xr panic 9 .
153.It Dv LK_SLEEPFAIL
154Fail if operation has slept.
155.It Dv LK_NOWAIT
156Do not allow the call to sleep.
157This can be used to test the lock.
158.It Dv LK_CANRECURSE
159Allow recursion on an exclusive lock.
160For every lock there must be a release.
161.El
162.El
163.Pp
164The
165.Fn lockstatus
166function returns the status of the lock in relation to the
167.Vt thread
168passed to it.
169Note that if
170.Fa td
171is
172.Dv NULL
173and an exclusive lock is held,
174.Dv LK_EXCLUSIVE
175will be returned.
176.Pp
177The
178.Fn lockmgr_printinfo
179function prints debugging information about the lock.
180It is used primarily by
181.Xr VOP_PRINT 9
182functions.
183.Pp
184The
185.Fn lockowned
186function is used to determine whether the calling thread owns a lock.
187.Sh RETURN VALUES
188The
189.Fn lockcount
190function returns an integer greater than or equal to zero.
191.Pp
192The
193.Fn lockmgr
194function returns 0 on success and non-zero on failure.
195.Pp
196The
197.Fn lockstatus
198function returns:
199.Bl -tag -width ".Dv LK_EXCLUSIVE"
200.It Dv LK_EXCLUSIVE
201An exclusive lock is held by the thread
202.Fa td .
203.It Dv LK_EXCLOTHER
204An exclusive lock is held by someone other than the thread
205.Fa td .
206.It Dv LK_SHARED
207A shared lock is held.
208.It Li 0
209The lock is not held by anyone.
210.El
211.Pp
212The
213.Fn lockowned
214function returns a non-zero return value if the caller owns the lock shared or exclusive.
215.Sh FILES
216The lock manager itself is implemented within the file
217.Pa /sys/kern/kern_lock.c .
218Data structures and function prototypes for the lock manager are in
219.Pa /sys/sys/lock.h .
220.Sh ERRORS
221.Fn lockmgr
222fails if:
223.Bl -tag -width Er
224.It Bq Er EBUSY
225.Dv LK_NOWAIT
226was set, and a sleep would have been required.
227.It Bq Er ENOLCK
228.Dv LK_SLEEPFAIL
229was set and
230.Fn lockmgr
231did sleep.
232.It Bq Er EINTR
233.Dv PCATCH
234was set in the lock priority, and a signal was delivered during a sleep.
235Note the
236.Er ERESTART
237error below.
238.It Bq Er ERESTART
239.Dv PCATCH
240was set in the lock priority, a signal was delivered during a sleep,
241and the system call is to be restarted.
242.It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK
243a non-zero timeout was given, and the timeout expired.
244.El
245.Sh LOCKS
246Upgrade attempts that fail result in the loss of the lock that
247is currently held.
248Also, it is invalid to upgrade an
249exclusive lock, and a
250.Xr panic 9
251will be the result of trying.
252.Sh SEE ALSO
253.Xr locking 9 ,
254.Xr panic 9 ,
255.Xr tsleep 9 ,
256.Xr VOP_PRINT 9
257.Sh HISTORY
258The lock manager appeared in
259.Dx 1.0 .
260.Pp
261The lock manager API first appeared in
262.Bx 4.4 lite2 .
263.Sh AUTHORS
264This man page was written by
265.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
266