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# 304634 22-Aug-2016 jhb

MF11 304617: Fix various nits in the aio operation manpages.

- Avoid double use of "request" in a single sentence. Instead, describe
aio_sigevent as being used to request notification of the associated
operation's completion. This matches the language used to describe
aio_sigevent in aio(4).
- Simplify the prohibition on modifying buffers while requests are in
flight.
- Fix case mismatch.
- Drop note about not using stack variables. C programmers should be able
to figure out if a stack variable is safe based on the later warning
about the life cycle requirements of control blocks.
- Remove prohibition on modifying the I/O buffer for aio_fsync() since
it does not use an I/O buffer. For aio_mlock(), prohibit modifications
to the mapping (e.g. due to mprotect, munmap, mmap, etc.) but do not
prohibit modifications to the memory backing the buffer (stores into
the pages backing the buffer).

Approved by: re (kib)


# 304634 22-Aug-2016 jhb

MF11 304617: Fix various nits in the aio operation manpages.

- Avoid double use of "request" in a single sentence. Instead, describe
aio_sigevent as being used to request notification of the associated
operation's completion. This matches the language used to describe
aio_sigevent in aio(4).
- Simplify the prohibition on modifying buffers while requests are in
flight.
- Fix case mismatch.
- Drop note about not using stack variables. C programmers should be able
to figure out if a stack variable is safe based on the later warning
about the life cycle requirements of control blocks.
- Remove prohibition on modifying the I/O buffer for aio_fsync() since
it does not use an I/O buffer. For aio_mlock(), prohibit modifications
to the mapping (e.g. due to mprotect, munmap, mmap, etc.) but do not
prohibit modifications to the memory backing the buffer (stores into
the pages backing the buffer).

Approved by: re (kib)

# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 303460 28-Jul-2016 jhb

MFC 303164: Add more documentation regarding unsafe AIO requests.

The asynchronous I/O changes made previously result in different
behavior out of the box. Previously all AIO requests failed with
ENOSYS / SIGSYS unless aio.ko was explicitly loaded. Now, some AIO
requests complete and others ("unsafe" requests) fail with EOPNOTSUPP.

Reword the introductory paragraph in aio(4) to add a general
description of AIO before describing the vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl.

Remove the ENOSYS error description from aio_fsync(2), aio_read(2),
and aio_write(2) and replace it with a description of EOPNOTSUPP.

Remove the ENOSYS error description from aio_mlock(2).

Log a message to the system log the first time a process requests an
"unsafe" AIO request that fails with EOPNOTSUPP. This is modeled on
the log message used for processes using the legacy pty devices.

Approved by: re (gjb)


# 303324 25-Jul-2016 jhb

MFC 302899: Add documentation for the sigevent structure.

- Add a sigevent(3) manpage to give a general overview of the sigevent
structure and the available notification mechanisms.
- Document that AIO requests contain a nested sigevent structure that can
be used to request completion notification.
- Expand the sigevent details in other manuals to note details such as
the extra values stored in a queued signal's information or in a posted
kevent.

Approved by: re (gjb)


# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 259950 27-Dec-2013 pluknet

- Fix EBADF description, in following the future POSIX tc and what FreeBSD
actually implements.
- Improve grammar: use more preferred "can", not "could".

Submitted by: jilles


# 259921 26-Dec-2013 pluknet

Provide the manual page for aio_fsync(2).

Reviewed by: davidxu
MFC after: 1 week