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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH man-pages] Add membarrier system call man page
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:40:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151218184035.GF17386@linux-uzut.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450012663-16173-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>+.SH RETURN VALUE
>+On success, this system call returns zero.  On error, \-1 is returned,
>+and

For the zero return, would it make sense to specify that it is also the case
for MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED under UP? Its pretty obvious it should be a no-op,
but wouldn't hurt to make it explicit.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-18 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-13 13:17 [RFC PATCH man-pages] Add membarrier system call man page Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-12-15 16:14 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-12-18 18:40 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2015-12-18 19:37   ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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