From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Subject: [RFC PATCH manpages 3/3] Update membarrier manpage for 4.14, 4.15
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:13:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171115191316.828-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171115191316.828-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Add documentation for those new membarrier commands:
New in 4.14:
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.
New in 4.15:
MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED
MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SHARED_EXPEDITED
MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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---
man2/membarrier.2 | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/membarrier.2 b/man2/membarrier.2
index bbf611e10..6720d20f3 100644
--- a/man2/membarrier.2
+++ b/man2/membarrier.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Copyright 2015 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
+.\" Copyright 2015-2017 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
.\"
.\" %%%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 +87,60 @@ 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_SHARED_EXPEDITED
+Execute a memory barrier on all running threads part of a process which
+previously registered with
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SHARED_EXPEDITED .
+Upon return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that all
+running threads 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 processes which registered with
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SHARED_EXPEDITED .
+Given that registration is about the intent to receive the barriers, it
+is valid to invoke
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED
+from a non-registered process.
+.TP
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SHARED_EXPEDITED
+Register the process intent to receive
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED
+memory barriers.
+.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
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
+In addition to provide memory ordering guarantees described in
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED ,
+ensure the caller thread, upon return from system call, that all its
+running threads siblings have executed a core serializing instruction.
+(architectures are required to guarantee that non-running threads issue
+core serializing instructions before they resume user-space execution).
+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 sync
+core command prior to using it.
+.TP
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
+Register the process intent to use
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE .
.PP
The
.I flags
@@ -117,9 +171,16 @@ 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_SHARED_EXPEDITED ,
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SHARED_EXPEDITED ,
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED ,
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED ,
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE ,
+and
+.B MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
+operations return zero.
On error, \-1 is returned,
and
.I errno
@@ -138,22 +199,27 @@ 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 architecture does not implement the
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
+and
+.BR MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
+commands, 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 +228,10 @@ 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.
--
2.11.0
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2017-11-15 19:13 [RFC PATCH manpages 0/3] rseq, cpu_opv, membarrier man pages updates Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-11-15 19:13 ` [RFC PATCH manpages 1/3] Add cpu_opv system call manpage Mathieu Desnoyers
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