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authorAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-06-05 09:45:56 +0000
committerAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-06-05 09:45:56 +0000
commit4f8d576304cb0226a017b02be1ae3e8a350b5ba7 (patch)
treef3094c4cfc0e1ec137ff32544d548659d0a7fa37 /share
parenta7348702b223b3ec4b6363440580e755ccf7859d (diff)
Clarify (from art@)
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/spl.911
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/spl.9 b/share/man/man9/spl.9
index 81a92196789..03acac34fa3 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/spl.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/spl.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: spl.9,v 1.7 2000/11/09 01:23:10 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: spl.9,v 1.8 2001/06/05 09:45:55 angelos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: spl.9,v 1.1 1997/03/11 06:15:05 mikel Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Long.
@@ -109,6 +109,15 @@ Code running at or above this level may not call
or
.Fn wakeup ,
nor may it post signals.
+Note that "running" means invoked by an interrupt handler that
+operates at this level or higher.
+Kernel code that operates in the context of a process and has called
+.Fn splhigh
+for blocking purposes can use
+.Fn sleep ,
+.Fn tsleep ,
+or
+.Fn wakeup .
.It Fn splclock
blocks the hardware clock interrupt.
It is used by