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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200
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man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS. - Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_ systems. - STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards. That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17 is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux', 'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs. - In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds. - In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I found are deprecated by the relevant standards. - A few other related changes... Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man2/membarrier.2 b/man2/membarrier.2
index 390c774b9f..1df4249b5e 100644
--- a/man2/membarrier.2
+++ b/man2/membarrier.2
@@ -280,27 +280,18 @@ system call is not implemented by this kernel.
.B EPERM
The current process was not registered prior to using private expedited
commands.
-.SH VERSIONS
-The
-.BR membarrier ()
-system call was added in Linux 4.3.
+.SH STANDARDS
+Linux.
+.SH HISTORY
+Linux 4.3.
.PP
-Before Linux 5.10, the prototype for
-.BR membarrier ()
-was:
+Before Linux 5.10, the prototype was:
.PP
.in +4n
.EX
.BI "int membarrier(int " cmd ", int " flags );
.EE
.in
-.SH STANDARDS
-.BR membarrier ()
-is Linux-specific.
-.\" .SH SEE ALSO
-.\" FIXME See if the following syscalls make it into Linux 4.15 or later
-.\" .BR cpu_opv (2),
-.\" .BR rseq (2)
.SH NOTES
A memory barrier instruction is part of the instruction set of
architectures with weakly ordered memory models.
@@ -463,3 +454,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
}
.EE
.in
+.\" .SH SEE ALSO
+.\" FIXME See if the following syscalls make it into Linux 4.15 or later
+.\" .BR cpu_opv (2),
+.\" .BR rseq (2)