From c50f154e6bb4368f6046480ee700390d746f1e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:17:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] membarrier.2: Update membarrier manpage for 4.14 Add documentation for those new membarrier() commands: MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED Adapt the MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED return value documentation to reflect that it now returns -EINVAL when issued on a system configured for nohz_full. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: "Paul E. McKenney" CC: Peter Zijlstra CC: Paul Turner CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: Andrew Hunter CC: Andy Lutomirski CC: Andi Kleen CC: Dave Watson CC: Chris Lameter CC: Ingo Molnar CC: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Ben Maurer CC: Steven Rostedt CC: Josh Triplett CC: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton CC: Russell King CC: Catalin Marinas CC: Will Deacon CC: Michael Kerrisk CC: Boqun Feng CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/membarrier.2 | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/membarrier.2 b/man2/membarrier.2 index bbf611e10..d049f6e6d 100644 --- a/man2/membarrier.2 +++ b/man2/membarrier.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright 2015 Mathieu Desnoyers +.\" Copyright 2015-2017 Mathieu Desnoyers .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.TH MEMBARRIER 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MEMBARRIER 2 2017-11-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME membarrier \- issue memory barriers on a set of threads .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -87,6 +87,24 @@ order between entry to and return from the .BR membarrier () system call. All threads on the system are targeted by this command. +.TP +.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED +Execute a memory barrier on each running thread belonging to the same +process as the current thread. Upon return from system call, the caller +thread is ensured that all its running threads siblings have passed +through a state where all memory accesses to user-space addresses match +program order between entry to and return from the system call +(non-running threads are de facto in such a state). This only covers +threads from the same process as the caller thread. The "expedited" +commands complete faster than the non-expedited ones, they never block, +but have the downside of causing extra overhead. A process needs to +register its intent to use the private expedited command prior to using +it. +.TP +.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED +Register the process intent to use +.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED . +.TP .PP The .I flags @@ -117,9 +135,12 @@ The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered): .SH RETURN VALUE On success, the .B MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY -operation returns a bit mask of supported commands and the -.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED -operation returns zero. +operation returns a bit mask of supported commands, and the +.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED , +.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED , +and +.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED , +operations return zero. On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno @@ -138,22 +159,22 @@ set to 0, error handling is required only for the first call to .TP .B EINVAL .I cmd -is invalid or +is invalid, or .I flags -is non-zero. +is non-zero, or the +.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED +command is disabled because the +.I nohz_full +CPU parameter has been set. .TP .B ENOSYS The .BR membarrier () system call is not implemented by this kernel. .TP -.BR ENOSYS " (since Linux 4.11)" -.\" 907565337ebf998a68cb5c5b2174ce5e5da065eb -The -.BR membarrier () -system call is disabled because the -.I nohz_full -CPU parameter has been set. +.B EPERM +The current process was not registered prior to using private expedited +commands. .SH VERSIONS The .BR membarrier () @@ -162,6 +183,10 @@ system call was added in Linux 4.3. .SH CONFORMING TO .BR membarrier () is Linux-specific. +.in +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR cpu_opv (2) , +.BR rseq (2) .SH NOTES A memory barrier instruction is part of the instruction set of architectures with weakly-ordered memory models.