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@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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 -- 2.28.0
