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authorDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>2019-05-20 19:43:52 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-05-20 10:54:08 -0600
commitc5145a82b4cd03d30c94eb012f4baeb7407b2490 (patch)
tree67ceef20deba11e409dd5d5cb5eaf935403d969a
parent311d5e298b4b480112cd41594b127dddfa45d31f (diff)
io_uring_register.2: fix multiple formatting issues
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--man/io_uring_register.247
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/man/io_uring_register.2 b/man/io_uring_register.2
index 1822fd3..7c156dc 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_register.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_register.2
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ io_uring_register \- register files or user buffers for asynchronous I/O
.BR "#include <linux/io_uring.h>"
.PP
.BI "int io_uring_register(unsigned int " fd ", unsigned int " opcode ,
-.BI " void *" arg ", unsigned int " nr_args)
+.BI " void *" arg ", unsigned int " nr_args );
.fi
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The
system call registers user buffers or files for use in an
.BR io_uring (7)
instance referenced by
-.I fd.
+.IR fd .
Registering files or user buffers allows the kernel to take long term
references to internal data structures or create long term mappings of
application memory, greatly reducing per-I/O overhead.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ is the file descriptor returned by a call to
can be one of:
.TP
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
.I arg
points to a
.I struct iovec
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ array of
.I nr_args
entries. The buffers associated with the iovecs will be locked in
memory and charged against the user's
-.B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit. See
+.B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
+resource limit. See
.BR getrlimit (2)
for more information. Additionally, there is a size limit of 1GiB per
buffer. Currently, the buffers must be anonymous, non-file-backed
@@ -91,14 +92,14 @@ with the new buffers.
An application need not unregister buffers explicitly before shutting
down the io_uring instance.
.TP
-.BR IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS
This operation takes no argument, and
.I arg
must be passed as NULL. All previously registered buffers associated
with the io_uring instance will be released.
.TP
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES
Register files for I/O.
.I arg
contains a pointer to an array of
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ To make use of the registered files, the
flag must be set in the
.I flags
member of the
-.I struct io_uring_sqe,
+.IR "struct io_uring_sqe" ,
and the
.I fd
member is set to the index of the file in the file descriptor array.
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ Files are automatically unregistered when the io_uring instance is
torn down. An application need only unregister if it wishes to
register a new set of fds.
.TP
-.BR IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
This operation requires no argument, and
.I arg
must be passed as NULL. All previously registered files associated
@@ -141,9 +142,9 @@ One or more fds in the
array are invalid.
.TP
.B EBUSY
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
or
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES
was specified, but there were already buffers or files registered.
.TP
.B EFAULT
@@ -152,24 +153,24 @@ buffer is outside of the process' accessible address space, or
is greater than 1GiB.
.TP
.B EINVAL
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
or
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES
was specified, but
.I nr_args
is 0.
.TP
.B EINVAL
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS
was specified, but
.I nr_args
exceeds
-.BR UIO_MAXIOV
+.B UIO_MAXIOV
.TP
.B EINVAL
-.BR IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS
or
-.BR IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
was specified, and
.I nr_args
is non-zero or
@@ -177,13 +178,13 @@ is non-zero or
is non-NULL.
.TP
.B EMFILE
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES
was specified and
.I nr_args
exceeds the maximum allowed number of files in a fixed file set.
.TP
.B EMFILE
-.BR IORING_REGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES
was specified and adding
.I nr_args
file references would exceed the maximum allowed number of files the user
@@ -197,17 +198,15 @@ capability. Note that this is a per user limit, not per process.
.B ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel resources are available, or the caller had a
non-zero
-.BR RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
+.B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
soft resource limit, but tried to lock more memory than the limit
permitted. This limit is not enforced if the process is privileged
-(
-.BR CAP_IPC_LOCK
-).
+.RB ( CAP_IPC_LOCK ).
.TP
.B ENXIO
-.BR IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS
+.B IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS
or
-.BR IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
+.B IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
was specified, but there were no buffers or files registered.
.TP
.B ENXIO