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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-12 18:06:05 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-12 18:06:05 +0000
commit9945522f80f6cb34bf3d8fe101b8f55547ad8bb3 (patch)
treefc10cafaadb7f2d860ae9e98871d8af44d307d93 /share/man/man9/spl.9
parentcbf706cf11abaa4e9a17c2295bc4be136190d5f3 (diff)
General man page cleanups, mostly to remove trailing whitespace, hard
sentence breaks, and other such things.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/spl.9 b/share/man/man9/spl.9
index 798c96fd075..bdd8ad28394 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/spl.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/spl.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: spl.9,v 1.4 2000/07/07 09:08:25 ho Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: spl.9,v 1.5 2000/10/12 18:06:03 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: spl.9,v 1.1 1997/03/11 06:15:05 mikel Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Long.
@@ -78,9 +78,11 @@ at a higher priority level.
A
.Nm
function exists for each distinct priority level which can exist in
-the system. These macros and the corresponding priority levels are
+the system.
+These macros and the corresponding priority levels are
used for various defined purposes, and may be divided into two main
-types: hard and soft. Hard interrupts are generated by hardware
+types: hard and soft.
+Hard interrupts are generated by hardware
devices, while soft interrupts are generated by callouts and called
from the kernel's periodic timer interrupt service routine.
.Pp
@@ -88,29 +90,31 @@ In order of highest to lowest priority, the priority-raising macros
are:
.Bl -tag -width splsoftclockXX
.It Fn splhigh
-blocks all hard and soft interrupts. It is used for code that cannot
-tolerate any interrupts, like hardware context switching code and
-the
+blocks all hard and soft interrupts.
+It is used for code that cannot
+tolerate any interrupts, like hardware context switching code and the
.Xr ddb 4
in-kernel debugger.
.It Fn spltty
-blocks hard interrupts from serial interfaces. Code running at this
-level may not access the tty subsystem.
+blocks hard interrupts from serial interfaces.
+Code running at this level may not access the tty subsystem.
.It Fn splsched
-blocks interrupts that may access scheduler data structures. Code
-running at or above this level may not call
+blocks interrupts that may access scheduler data structures.
+Code running at or above this level may not call
.Fn sleep ,
.Fn tsleep ,
or
.Fn wakeup ,
nor may it post signals.
.It Fn splclock
-blocks the hardware clock interrupt. It is used by
+blocks the hardware clock interrupt.
+It is used by
.Fn hardclock
to update kernel and process times, and must be used by any other code
that accesses time-related data.
.It Fn splstatclock
-blocks the hardware statistics clock interrupt. It is used by
+blocks the hardware statistics clock interrupt.
+It is used by
.Fn statclock
to update kernel profiling and other statistics, and must be used by
any code that accesses that data.
@@ -136,7 +140,8 @@ blocks soft network interrupts.
blocks soft clock interrupts.
.El
.Pp
-Two macros lower the system priority level. They are:
+Two macros lower the system priority level.
+They are:
.Bl -tag -width spllowersoftclockXX
.It Fn spllowersoftclock
unblocks all interrupts but the soft clock interrupt.