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authorAlan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>2017-06-23 00:40:09 +0000
committerAlan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>2017-06-23 00:40:09 +0000
commit09986d3bd2a01942e7542f1b84a652b4a4ca3d42 (patch)
tree56e64b7498b4224854193a0742b0e5419822f67a
parent514fd0b8d3b8a72a9b0aaf7a534fc974161d8dfa (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/kqueue.237
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/aio.420
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
index 14a8eaf22989..6630ae3db688 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 17, 2017
+.Dd June 22, 2017
.Dt KQUEUE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -351,33 +351,18 @@ case.
Takes a descriptor as the identifier, and returns whenever
there is no remaining data in the write buffer.
.It Dv EVFILT_AIO
-The sigevent portion of the AIO request is filled in, with
-.Va sigev_notify_kqueue
-containing the descriptor of the kqueue that the event should
-be attached to,
-.Va sigev_notify_kevent_flags
-containing the kevent flags which should be
-.Dv EV_ONESHOT ,
-.Dv EV_CLEAR
-or
-.Dv EV_DISPATCH ,
-.Va sigev_value
-containing the udata value, and
-.Va sigev_notify
-set to
-.Dv SIGEV_KEVENT .
-When the
-.Fn aio_*
-system call is made, the event will be registered
-with the specified kqueue, and the
-.Va ident
-argument set to the
-.Fa struct aiocb
-returned by the
-.Fn aio_*
-system call.
+Events for this filter are not registered with
+.Fn kevent
+directly but are registered via the
+.Va aio_sigevent
+member of an asychronous I/O request when it is scheduled via an asychronous I/O
+system call such as
+.Fn aio_read .
The filter returns under the same conditions as
.Fn aio_error .
+For more details on this filter see
+.Xr sigevent 3 and
+.Xr aio 4 .
.It Dv EVFILT_VNODE
Takes a file descriptor as the identifier and the events to watch for in
.Va fflags ,
diff --git a/share/man/man4/aio.4 b/share/man/man4/aio.4
index 048561d463e0..0ea728499d13 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/aio.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/aio.4
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 21, 2016
+.Dd June 22, 2017
.Dt AIO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -161,11 +161,27 @@ field which can be used to request notification when an operation completes.
For
.Dv SIGEV_KEVENT
notifications,
-the posted kevent will contain:
+the
+.Va sigevent
+.Ap
+s
+.Va sigev_notify_kqueue
+field should contain the descriptor of the kqueue that the event should be attached
+to, its
+.Va sigev_notify_kevent_flags
+field may contain
+.Dv EV_ONESHOT ,
+.Dv EV_CLEAR , and/or
+.Dv EV_DISPATCH , and its
+.Va sigev_notify
+field should be set to
+.Dv SIGEV_KEVENT .
+The posted kevent will contain:
.Bl -column ".Va filter"
.It Sy Member Ta Sy Value
.It Va ident Ta asynchronous I/O control buffer pointer
.It Va filter Ta Dv EVFILT_AIO
+.It Va flags Ta Dv EV_EOF
.It Va udata Ta
value stored in
.Va aio_sigevent.sigev_value