linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/24] membarrier.2: Note that glibc does not provide a wrapper

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Message-ID: <5aad6df9-3531-1b16-4d2d-97fb5cf423c2@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:44:55 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@...il.com>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/24] membarrier.2: Note that glibc does not provide a
 wrapper

On 9/10/20 11:13 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Notes: I copied .nf and .fi from futex.2, but they made no visual difference.
> What do they actually do?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@...il.com>

Thanks, Alex. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man2/membarrier.2 | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/membarrier.2 b/man2/membarrier.2
> index 8825de71e..f65c6be5c 100644
> --- a/man2/membarrier.2
> +++ b/man2/membarrier.2
> @@ -26,9 +26,15 @@
>  .SH NAME
>  membarrier \- issue memory barriers on a set of threads
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
> +.nf
> +.PP
>  .B #include <linux/membarrier.h>
>  .PP
>  .BI "int membarrier(int " cmd ", int " flags ");"
> +.fi
> +.PP
> +.IR Note :
> +There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  The
>  .BR membarrier ()
> @@ -270,6 +276,9 @@ Examples where
>  .BR membarrier ()
>  can be useful include implementations
>  of Read-Copy-Update libraries and garbage collectors.
> +.PP
> +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> +.BR syscall (2).
>  .SH EXAMPLES
>  Assuming a multithreaded application where "fast_path()" is executed
>  very frequently, and where "slow_path()" is executed infrequently, the
> 


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