man: be more explicit about thread safety of sd_journal

Triggered by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1609349

This adds two generic paragaphs we include via xinclude. One is the
"strict" version, which contains wording saying that we are thread
agnostic and what that means. And the other is the "safe" version, for
the cases we provide fully safety.

Let's then change most man pages to use either of these generic
paragraphs. With one exception: man/sd_journal_get_catalog.xml contains
both kinds of function, we hence use manual wording.
This commit is contained in:
Lennart Poettering 2018-08-03 16:43:30 +02:00
parent af560fc1da
commit 64a7ef8bc0
18 changed files with 68 additions and 55 deletions

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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
It is used to track library state and link objects together. No
global state is used by libudev, everything is always linked to
a udev context. Furthermore, multiple different udev contexts can
be used in parallel by multiple threads. However, a single context
must not be accessed by multiple threads in parallel. The caller
is responsible for providing suitable locking if they intend to use
it from multiple threads.</para>
a udev context.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<para>To introspect a local device on a system, a udev device
object can be created via

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<refsect1>
<title>Thread safety</title>
<para>Functions that operate on the <structname>sd_journal</structname> object are thread
agnostic — given <structname>sd_journal</structname> pointer may only be used from one thread at
a time, but multiple threads may use multiple such objects safely. Other functions —
those that are used to send entries to the journal, like
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
and similar, or those that are used to retrieve global information like
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
and
<para>Functions that operate on <structname>sd_journal</structname> objects are thread agnostic — given
<structname>sd_journal</structname> pointer may only be used from one specific thread at all times (and it has to
be the very same one during the entire lifetime of the object), but multiple, independent threads may use multiple,
independent objects safely. Other functions — those that are used to send entries to the journal, like
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> and similar,
or those that are used to retrieve global information like
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> and
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
— are thread-safe and may be called from multiple threads in parallel.</para>
— are fully thread-safe and may be called from multiple threads in parallel.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict" />
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>Function <function>sd_journal_get_catalog()</function> is thread-agnostic and only a
single thread may operate on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object. Function
<function>sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id()</function> is thread-safe.</para>
<para>Function <function>sd_journal_get_catalog()</function> is thread-agnostic and only
a single specific thread may operate on a given object during its entire lifetime. It's safe to allocate multiple
independent objects and use each from a specific thread in parallel. However, it's not safe to allocate such an
object in one thread, and operate or free it from any other, even if locking is used to ensure these threads don't
operate on it at the very same time.</para>
<para>Function <function>sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id()</function> is are thread-safe and may be called in
parallel from multiple threads.</para>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict" />
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict" />
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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success or a negative errno-style error code.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>The <function>sd_journal_get_fd()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_get_events()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_reliable_fd()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_process()</function> and
<function>sd_journal_wait()</function> interfaces are available as
a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
<constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>

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<function>sd_journal_get_monotonic_usec()</function>.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
-->
<refentry id="sd_journal_open">
<refentry id="sd_journal_open"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_journal_open</title>
@ -184,15 +185,9 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<para>The <function>sd_journal_open()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_open_directory()</function> and
<function>sd_journal_close()</function> interfaces are available
as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
<constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Thread safety</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-safe and may be called in parallel from multiple threads.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="safe"/>
<para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is "async signal safe" in the meaning of <citerefentry
project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal-safety</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>Function <function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> is thread-safe and may be called
from multiple threads.</para>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="safe"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>

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man/threads-aware.xml Normal file
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<!--
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
-->
<refsect1>
<para id="strict">All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single specific thread may operate on a
given object during its entire lifetime. It's safe to allocate multiple independent objects and use each from a
specific thread in parallel. However, it's not safe to allocate such an object in one thread, and operate or free it
from any other, even if locking is used to ensure these threads don't operate on it at the very same time.</para>
<para id="safe">All functions listed here are thread-safe and may be called in parallel from multiple threads.</para>
</refsect1>