Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Sun Aug 27 20:43:38 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man9: locking.9
Log Message:
New sentence, new line.
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diff -u src/share/man/man9/locking.9:1.6 src/share/man/man9/locking.9:1.7
--- src/share/man/man9/locking.9:1.6 Wed Aug 23 22:27:55 2017
+++ src/share/man/man9/locking.9 Sun Aug 27 20:43:37 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: locking.9,v 1.6 2017/08/23 22:27:55 pgoyette Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: locking.9,v 1.7 2017/08/27 20:43:37 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -215,21 +215,23 @@ See
.Ss Passive reference mechanism
Passive references allow CPUs to cheaply acquire and release passive
references to a resource, which guarantee the resource will not be
-destroyed until the reference is released. Acquiring and releasing
-passive references requires no interprocessor synchronization, except
-when the resource is pending destruction.
+destroyed until the reference is released.
+Acquiring and releasing passive references requires no interprocessor
+synchronization, except when the resource is pending destruction.
.Pp
See
.Xr psref 9 .
.Ss Localcount mechanism
Localcounts are used in the kernel to implement a medium-weight reference
-counting mechanism. During normal operations, localcounts do not need
+counting mechanism.
+During normal operations, localcounts do not need
the interprocessor synchronization associated with
.Xr atomic_ops 3
atomic memory operations, and (unlike
.Xr psref 9 )
localcount references can be held across sleeps and can migrate between
-CPUs. Draining a localcount requires more expensive interprocessor
+CPUs.
+Draining a localcount requires more expensive interprocessor
synchronization than
.Xr atomic_ops 3
(similar to
