NAME

SYNOPSIS

struct sf_buf *
sf_buf_alloc(struct vm_page *m, int flags);

void
sf_buf_free(struct sf_buf *sf);

vm_offset_t
sf_buf_kva(struct sf_buf *sf);

struct vm_page *
sf_buf_page(struct sf_buf *sf);

DESCRIPTION

Call sf_buf_alloc() to allocate a struct sf_buf for a physical memory page. sf_buf_alloc() is not responsible for arranging for the page to be present in physical memory; the caller should already have arranged for the page to be wired, i.e., by calling vm_page_wire(9). Several flags may be passed to sf_buf_alloc():

SFB_CATCH

Cause sf_buf_alloc() to abort and return NULL if a signal is received waiting for a struct sf_buf to become available.

SFB_NOWAIT

Cause sf_buf_alloc() to return NULL rather than sleeping if a struct sf_buf is not immediately available.

SFB_CPUPRIVATE

Cause sf_buf_alloc() to only arrange that the temporary mapping be valid on the current CPU, avoiding unnecessary TLB shootdowns for mappings that will only be accessed on a single CPU at a time. The caller must ensure that accesses to the virtual address occur only on the CPU from which sf_buf_alloc() was invoked, perhaps by using sched_pin().

Call sf_buf_kva() to return a kernel mapped address for the page.

Call sf_buf_page() to return a pointer to the page originally passed into sf_buf_alloc().

Call sf_buf_free() to release the struct sf_buf reference. The caller is responsible for releasing any wiring they have previously acquired on the physical page; sf_buf_free() releases only the temporary kernel address space mapping, not the page itself.

Uses of this interface include managing mappings of borrowed pages from user memory, such as in zero-copy socket I/O, or pages of memory from the buffer cache referenced by mbuf external storage for sendfile(2).

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