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From: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>,
	Caleb Sander <[email protected]>,
	Muhammad Rizki <[email protected]>,
	Kanna Scarlet <[email protected]>,
	io-uring Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	GNU/Weeb Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: [RFC PATCH liburing v1 2/4] man: Clarify "man 2" entry for io_uring syscalls
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:07:37 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

From: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>

io_uring_enter(), io_uring_register(), io_uring_setup() are not
declared in `<linux/io_uring.h>` and never were. Plus, these
functions don't intentionally set the `errno` variable. Reflect this
fact in the manpage.

Side note: On architectures other than x86, x86-64, and aarch64, those
functions _do_ set the `errno`, this is because the syscall is done via
libc as we don't yet have nolibc support for the mentioned archs. Users
should not rely on this behavior.

Cc: Caleb Sander <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
---
 man/io_uring_enter.2    | 9 ++++-----
 man/io_uring_register.2 | 9 ++++-----
 man/io_uring_setup.2    | 8 +++-----
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/io_uring_enter.2 b/man/io_uring_enter.2
index 6bfe9c9..05f9f72 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_enter.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_enter.2
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 io_uring_enter \- initiate and/or complete asynchronous I/O
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
-.BR "#include <linux/io_uring.h>"
+.BR "#include <liburing.h>"
 .PP
 .BI "int io_uring_enter(unsigned int " fd ", unsigned int " to_submit ,
 .BI "                   unsigned int " min_complete ", unsigned int " flags ,
@@ -1299,11 +1299,10 @@ completion queue entry (see section
 rather than through the system call itself.
 
 Errors that occur not on behalf of a submission queue entry are returned via the
-system call directly. On such an error,
-.B -1
-is returned and
+system call directly. On such an error, a negative error code is returned. The
+caller should not rely on
 .I errno
-is set appropriately.
+variable.
 .PP
 .SH ERRORS
 These are the errors returned by
diff --git a/man/io_uring_register.2 b/man/io_uring_register.2
index 6c440b9..6791375 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_register.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_register.2
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 io_uring_register \- register files or user buffers for asynchronous I/O 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
-.BR "#include <linux/io_uring.h>"
+.BR "#include <liburing.h>"
 .PP
 .BI "int io_uring_register(unsigned int " fd ", unsigned int " opcode ,
 .BI "                      void *" arg ", unsigned int " nr_args );
@@ -583,11 +583,10 @@ Available since 5.18.
 
 On success,
 .BR io_uring_register ()
-returns 0.  On error,
-.B -1
-is returned, and
+returns 0.  On error, a negative error code is returned. The caller should not
+rely on
 .I errno
-is set accordingly.
+variable.
 
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
diff --git a/man/io_uring_setup.2 b/man/io_uring_setup.2
index 0a5fa92..32a9e2e 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_setup.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_setup.2
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 io_uring_setup \- setup a context for performing asynchronous I/O
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
-.BR "#include <linux/io_uring.h>"
+.BR "#include <liburing.h>"
 .PP
 .BI "int io_uring_setup(u32 " entries ", struct io_uring_params *" p );
 .fi
@@ -566,11 +566,9 @@ or
 .BR io_uring_enter (2)
 system calls.
 
-On error,
-.B -1
-is returned and
+On error, a negative error code is returned. The caller should not rely on
 .I errno
-is set appropriately.
+variable.
 .PP
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
-- 
Ammar Faizi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-29  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-29  3:07 [RFC PATCH liburing v1 0/4] Export io_uring syscall functions Ammar Faizi
2022-08-29  3:07 ` [RFC PATCH liburing v1 1/4] syscall: Add " Ammar Faizi
2022-08-29 19:46   ` Caleb Sander
2022-08-29 19:53   ` Caleb Sander
2022-08-29  3:07 ` Ammar Faizi [this message]
2022-08-29  3:07 ` [RFC PATCH liburing v1 3/4] man: Alias `io_uring_enter2()` to `io_uring_enter()` Ammar Faizi
2022-08-29 19:56   ` Caleb Sander
2022-08-29  3:07 ` [RFC PATCH liburing v1 4/4] test/io_uring_{enter,setup,register}: Use the exported syscall functions Ammar Faizi
2022-08-29 19:58   ` Caleb Sander

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