2 * Copyright (C) 2010, 2015 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
4 * membarrier system call
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17 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
18 #include <linux/membarrier.h>
21 * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd,
22 * except MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY.
24 #define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK (MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED)
27 * sys_membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
28 * @cmd: Takes command values defined in enum membarrier_cmd.
29 * @flags: Currently needs to be 0. For future extensions.
31 * If this system call is not implemented, -ENOSYS is returned. If the
32 * command specified does not exist, or if the command argument is invalid,
33 * this system call returns -EINVAL. For a given command, with flags argument
34 * set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the same value
37 * All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted thread
38 * is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If we use
39 * the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing memory
40 * accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier, and
41 * smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory
42 * ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
43 * each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():
45 * The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):
47 * barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
50 * sys_membarrier() O O O
52 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags)
57 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY:
58 return MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK;
59 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED:
60 if (num_online_cpus() > 1)