Re: [PATCH v16] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Wed Apr 22 2015 - 17:01:35 EST


----- Original Message -----
> On 22 April 2015 at 21:43, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 11:06 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >> > [ Not in this patch: tests (Pranith Kumar has a patch for this), man
> >> > page.
> >> > ]
> >>
> >> Actually, we had discussed that for new syscalls, the changelog _would_
> >> be the manpage -- at least included in it.
> >
> > Do you want the formatted content, or just the text ? Putting
> > manpage formatting in the changelog seems a bit odd.
>
>
> Plain text works for me. Just divide it up into the usuual man-pages
> sections (see man-pages(7), and I'll take care of the rest).

OK. Should I do the writeup as a man(2) from the POV of a glibc
user ? It's a bit different when we get to return values and
error codes if we document kernel<->glibc or glibc<->user.

Moreover, how can we get this into glibc ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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