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[19/39] membarrier.2: Use syscall(SYS_...); for system calls without a wrapper

Message ID 20210510175546.28445-20-alx.manpages@gmail.com
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Series man2: SYNOPSIS: Fix headers, use syscall(), and other fixes |

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Alejandro Colomar May 10, 2021, 5:55 p.m. UTC 
  Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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 man2/membarrier.2 | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man2/membarrier.2 b/man2/membarrier.2
index 851f5d59f..fec82f228 100644
--- a/man2/membarrier.2
+++ b/man2/membarrier.2
@@ -28,13 +28,20 @@  membarrier \- issue memory barriers on a set of threads
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .PP
-.B #include <linux/membarrier.h>
+.BR "#include <linux/membarrier.h>" \
+" /* Definition of " MEMBARRIER_* " constants */"
+.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" "      /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
+.B #include <unistd.h>
 .PP
-.BI "int membarrier(int " cmd ", unsigned int " flags ", int " cpu_id );
+.BI "int syscall(SYS_membarrier, int " cmd ", unsigned int " flags \
+", int " cpu_id );
 .fi
 .PP
 .IR Note :
-There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
+glibc provides no wrapper for
+.BR membarrier (),
+necessitating the use of
+.BR syscall (2).
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR membarrier ()
@@ -322,9 +329,6 @@  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