Re: [PATCH 4/4] man/man2/futex.2: Add a pointer to Linux' memory-barrier

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Sebastian,

At 2025-08-29T18:02:00+0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> diff --git a/man/man2/futex.2 b/man/man2/futex.2
> index 027e91b826bf1..fe4a239c3812c 100644
> --- a/man/man2/futex.2
> +++ b/man/man2/futex.2
> @@ -84,16 +84,14 @@ on the same futex word.
>  .\"     would be sufficient? Or perhaps for this manual, "serialized" would
>  .\"     be sufficient, with a footnote regarding "totally ordered" and a
>  .\"     pointer to the memory-barrier documentation?
> +Please see
> +.IR https://docs.kernel.org/\:next/\:core-api/\:wrappers/\:memory-barriers.html
> +for the definition of atomic operations and memory ordering.
>  Thus, the futex word is used to connect the synchronization in user space
>  with the implementation of blocking by the kernel.
>  Analogously to an atomic

(not a gating/blocking suggestion)

As with my previous comment, you might make the new text a hyperlink.

+See the
+.UR https://docs.kernel.org/\:next/\:core-api/\:wrappers/\:memory-barriers.html
+Linux kernel's guide to atomic operations and memory ordering
+.UE .

Regards,
Branden

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