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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-11 22:34:09 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-11 22:34:09 -0400
commit01b0c014eeb0bb857a5dc572cd108be7becddfe7 (patch)
treed6f1a089081aadb09e66add27f7c5137d076ac80 /include/uapi/linux
parent3ebb0540c20d6670396ccee9ff6794c095fa9311 (diff)
parente527b22c3f63c02832ac4cb8ed0ec3a9b638bbdf (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge fourth patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - sys_membarier syscall - seq_file interface changes - a few misc fixups * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: revert "ocfs2/dlm: use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each" mm/early_ioremap: add explicit #include of asm/early_ioremap.h fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void selftests: enhance membarrier syscall test selftests: add membarrier syscall test sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) MODSIGN: fix a compilation warning in extract-cert
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/Kbuild1
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h53
2 files changed, 54 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild b/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
index 70ff1d9abf0d..f7b2db44eb4b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ header-y += mdio.h
252header-y += media.h 252header-y += media.h
253header-y += media-bus-format.h 253header-y += media-bus-format.h
254header-y += mei.h 254header-y += mei.h
255header-y += membarrier.h
255header-y += memfd.h 256header-y += memfd.h
256header-y += mempolicy.h 257header-y += mempolicy.h
257header-y += meye.h 258header-y += meye.h
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e0b108bd2624
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
1#ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H
2#define _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H
3
4/*
5 * linux/membarrier.h
6 *
7 * membarrier system call API
8 *
9 * Copyright (c) 2010, 2015 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
10 *
11 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
12 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
13 * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
14 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
15 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
16 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
17 *
18 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
19 * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
20 *
21 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
22 * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
23 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
24 * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
25 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
26 * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
27 * SOFTWARE.
28 */
29
30/**
31 * enum membarrier_cmd - membarrier system call command
32 * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY: Query the set of supported commands. It returns
33 * a bitmask of valid commands.
34 * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED: Execute a memory barrier on all running threads.
35 * Upon return from system call, the caller thread
36 * is ensured that all running threads have passed
37 * through a state where all memory accesses to
38 * user-space addresses match program order between
39 * entry to and return from the system call
40 * (non-running threads are de facto in such a
41 * state). This covers threads from all processes
42 * running on the system. This command returns 0.
43 *
44 * Command to be passed to the membarrier system call. The commands need to
45 * be a single bit each, except for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY which is assigned to
46 * the value 0.
47 */
48enum membarrier_cmd {
49 MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY = 0,
50 MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED = (1 << 0),
51};
52
53#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H */