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27.Dd September 9, 2019
28.Dt VM_PAGE_WIRE 9
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm vm_page_wire ,
32.Nm vm_page_unwire ,
33.Nm vm_page_unwire_noq
34.Nd "wire and unwire pages"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In vm/vm.h
38.In vm/vm_page.h
39.Ft void
40.Fn vm_page_wire "vm_page_t m"
41.Ft bool
42.Fn vm_page_wire_mapped "vm_page_t m"
43.Ft void
44.Fn vm_page_unwire "vm_page_t m" "int queue"
45.Ft bool
46.Fn vm_page_unwire_noq "vm_page_t m"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn vm_page_wire
50and
51.Fn vm_page_wire_mapped
52functions wire the page, which prevents it from being reclaimed by the page
53daemon or when its containing object is destroyed.
54Both functions require that the page belong to an object.
55The
56.Fn vm_page_wire_mapped
57function is for use by the
58.Xr pmap 9
59layer following a lookup.
60This function may fail if mappings of the page are concurrently
61being destroyed, in which case it will return false.
62.Pp
63The
64.Fn vm_page_unwire
65and
66.Fn vm_page_unwire_noq
67functions release a wiring of a page.
68The
69.Fn vm_page_unwire
70function takes a queue index and will insert the page into the
71corresponding page queue upon releasing its last wiring.
72If the page does not belong to an object and no other references
73to the page exist,
74.Fn vm_page_unwire
75will free the page.
76.Fn vm_page_unwire_noq
77releases the wiring and returns true if it was the last wiring
78of the page.
79.Sh AUTHORS
80This manual page was written by
81.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
82