Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:01:34 +0000 (UTC) | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v16] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) |
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----- Original Message ----- > On 22 April 2015 at 21:43, Mathieu Desnoyers > <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> 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
-- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com
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