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Now, vm_page_busy_sleep() expects the page's object to be locked. vm_object_unwire() does some unusual lazy locking of the object chain, and keeps objects locked until a busy page is encountered or the loop terminates. When a busy page is encountered, rather than unlocking all but the "bottom-level" object, we must instead skip the object to which `tm` belongs.

Now, vm_page_busy_sleep() expects the page's object to be locked. vm_object_unwire() does some unusual lazy locking of the object chain, and keeps objects locked until a busy page is encountered or the loop terminates. When a busy page is encountered, rather than unlocking all but the "bottom-level" object, we must instead skip the object to which `tm` belongs. To provide a concrete example, suppose we are asked to unwire pages in the range [0, 1] from object O, with backing object BO with offset 0. Suppose no page is resident at 0 in O, but an xbusy page is resident at 1 in O. BO must contain a page at 0. vm_object_unwire() will lock both O and BO to unwire the page at 0. It would then encounter the busy page at 1 in O, and it must unlock BO, not O, before sleeping on the page's busy state.

Now, vm_page_busy_sleep() expects the page's object to be locked. vm_object_unwire() does some unusual lazy locking of the object chain, and keeps objects locked until a busy page is encountered or the loop terminates. When a busy page is encountered, rather than unlocking all but the "bottom-level" object, we must instead skip the object to which `tm` belongs. To provide a concrete example, suppose we are asked to unwire pages in the range [0, 1] from object O, with backing object BO with offset 0. Suppose no page is resident at 0 in O, but an xbusy page is resident at 1 in O. BO must contain a page at 0. vm_object_unwire() will lock both O and BO to unwire the page at 0. It would then encounter the busy page at 1 in O, and it must unlock BO, not O, before sleeping on the page's busy state.