NetBSD/lib/libc/sys/swapctl.2

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.Dd June 20, 1997
.Dt SWAPCTL 2
.Os NetBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm swapctl
.Nd modify swap configuration
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <unistd.h>
.Fd #include <vm/vm_swap.h>
.Ft int
.Fn swapctl "int cmd" "const void *arg" "int misc"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
function is used to add and delete swap devices, and modify their
configuration.
.Pp
The
.Fa cmd
parameter specifies the operation to be performed.  The
.Fa arg
and
.Fa misc
parameters have different meanings, depending on the
.Fa cmd
parameter.
.Bl -item -offset indent
.It
If
.Fa cmd
is
.Dv SWAP_NSWAP ,
the current number of swap devices in the system is returned.  The
.Fa arg
and
.Fa misc
parameters are ignored.
.It
If
.Fa cmd
is
.Dv SWAP_STATS ,
the current statistics for swap devices are returned in the
.Fa arg
parameter.  No more than
.Fa misc
swap devices are returned.  The
.Fa arg
parameter should point to an array of at least
.Fa misc
struct swapent structures:
.Bd -literal
struct swapent {
	dev_t	se_dev;
	int	se_flags;
	int	se_nblks;
	int	se_inuse;
	int	se_priority;
};
.Ed
.It
If
.Fa cmd
is
.Dv SWAP_ON ,
the
.Fa arg
parameter is used as a pathname of a file to enable swapping to.
The
.Fa misc
parameter is used to set the priority of this swap device.
.It
If
.Fa cmd
is
.Dv SWAP_OFF ,
the
.Fa arg
parameter is used as the pathname of a file to disable swapping from.
The
.Fa misc
parameter is ignored.
.It
If
.Fa cmd
is
.Dv SWAP_CTL ,
the
.Fa arg
and
.Fa misc
parameters have the same function as for the
.Dv SWAP_ON
case, except that they change the priority of a currently enabled swap device.
.El
.Pp
When swapping is enabled on a block device, the first portion of the disk is
left unused to prevent any disklable present from being overwritten.  This
space is allocated from the swap device when the
.Dv SWAP_ON
command is used.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If the
.Fa cmd
parameter is
.Dv SWAP_NSWAP
or
.Dv SWAP_STATS ,
.Fn swapctl
returns the number of swap devices, if successful.  The
.Dv SWAP_NSWAP
command is always successful.  Otherwise it returns 0 on success and -1
on failure, setting the global variable
.Va errno
to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn swapctl
succeeds unless:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 
.Dv NAME_MAX
characters, or an entire path name exceeded 
.Dv PATH_MAX
characters.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The named device does not exist.  For the
.Dv SWAP_CTL
command, the named device is not currently enabled for swapping.
.It Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
.It Bq Er EPERM
The caller is not the super-user.
.It Bq Er EBUSY
The device specified by
.Fa arg
has already been made available for swapping.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The device configured by
.Fa arg
has no associated size, or the
.Fa cmd
was unknown.
.It Bq Er ENXIO
The major device number of 
.Fa arg
is out of range (this indicates no device driver exists
for the associated hardware).
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while opening the swap device.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
.Fa arg
points outside the process' allocated address space.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr swapctl 8 ,
.Xr config 8
.Sh BUGS
The
.Dv SWAP_OFF
command is currently unimplemented by the
.Nx
kernel.
.Sh AUTHOR
The current swap system was designed and implemented by Matthew Green
<mrg@eterna.com.au>, with help from Paul Kranenburg <pk@NetBSD.ORG>
and Leo Weppelman <leo@NetBSD.ORG>, and insights from Jason R. Thorpe
<thorpej@NetBSD.ORG>.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn swapctl
function call appeared in
.Nx 1.3 .