> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:59:36 +0100
> From: Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]>
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 10:55:51PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > You missed atomic_cas.
> 
> Fixed.

ok kettenis@

> Index: share/man/man9/membar_sync.9
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /data/mirror/openbsd/cvs/src/share/man/man9/membar_sync.9,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 membar_sync.9
> --- share/man/man9/membar_sync.9      14 Feb 2014 05:11:55 -0000      1.3
> +++ share/man/man9/membar_sync.9      13 Mar 2022 21:57:35 -0000
> @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@
>  .Nm membar_exit ,
>  .Nm membar_producer ,
>  .Nm membar_consumer ,
> -.Nm membar_sync
> +.Nm membar_sync ,
> +.Nm membar_enter_after_atomic ,
> +.Nm membar_exit_before_atomic
>  .Nd memory access barrier operations
>  .Sh SYNOPSIS
>  .In sys/atomic.h
> @@ -49,6 +51,10 @@
>  .Fn membar_consumer "void"
>  .Ft void
>  .Fn membar_sync "void"
> +.Ft void
> +.Fn membar_enter_after_atomic "void"
> +.Ft void
> +.Fn membar_exit_before_atomic "void"
>  .Sh DESCRIPTION
>  The membar set of functions provide an interface for issuing memory barrier
>  access operations with respect to multiple processors in the system.
> @@ -79,14 +85,38 @@ after the memory barrier complete.
>  All loads and stores preceding the memory barrier will complete and
>  reach global visibility before any loads and stores after the memory
>  barrier complete and reach global visibility.
> +.It Fn membar_enter_after_atomic
> +An atomic operation preceding
> +.Fn membar_enter_after_atomic
> +will reach global visibility before all loads and stores following it.
> +The atomic operation is used to protect the start of a critical section.
> +.It Fn membar_exit_before_atomic
> +All loads and stores preceding
> +.Fn membar_exit_before_atomic
> +will reach global visibility before atomic operation that follows it.
> +The atomic operation is used to protect the end of a critical section.
>  .El
> +.Pp
> +The atomic operations that can be used with
> +.Fn membar_enter_after_atomic
> +and
> +.Fn membar_exit_before_atomic
> +are the atomic_add, atomic_sub, atomic_inc, atomic_dec, and atomic_cas
> +set of functions.
> +For other cases use
> +.Fn membar_enter
> +or
> +.Fn membar_exit .
>  .Sh CONTEXT
>  .Fn membar_enter ,
>  .Fn membar_exit ,
>  .Fn membar_producer ,
>  .Fn membar_consumer ,
> -.Fn membar_sync
> -can all be called during autoconf, from process context, or from interrupt 
> context.
> +.Fn membar_sync ,
> +.Fn membar_enter_after_atomic ,
> +.Fn membar_exit_before_atomic
> +can all be called during autoconf, from process context, or from
> +interrupt context.
>  .Sh HISTORY
>  The membar functions first appeared in
>  .Nx 5.0
> 

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