- Clarify ambiguous statement about not being able to both slock and xlock

  a single lock at the same time.
- Avoid using "own" to refer to holding either a shared or exclusive lock
  as it is only really correct for exclusive locks.
- Reword the sentence about sleep-ability to read easier.

Requested by:	truckman (1)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man9/sx.9 b/share/man/man9/sx.9
index 5dce1bea942b..0ff91c7be25a 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/sx.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/sx.9
@@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ or
 .Fn sx_try_xlock
 and
 .Fn sx_xunlock .
-A thread can attempt to upgrade a currently owned shared lock to an exclusive
+A thread can attempt to upgrade a currently held shared lock to an exclusive
 lock by calling
 .Fn sx_try_upgrade .
-A thread that owns an exclusive lock can downgrade it to a shared lock by
+A thread that has an exclusive lock can downgrade it to a shared lock by
 calling
 .Fn sx_downgrade .
 .Pp
@@ -172,10 +172,13 @@ but with an additional argument,
 that is used in generating unique variable names for the related
 structures associated with the lock and the sysinit routine.
 .Pp
-A thread may not own a shared lock and an exclusive lock simultaneously;
+A thread may not hold both a shared lock and an exclusive lock on the same
+lock simultaneously;
 attempting to do so will result in deadlock.
 .Sh CONTEXT
-It is allowed to own a shared lock or an exclusive lock while sleeping.
+A thread may hold a shared or exclusive lock on an
+.Nm
+lock while sleeping.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr condvar 9 ,
 .Xr mtx_pool 9 ,