urcu-bp: Update fork() handling

[urcu.git] / urcu-bp.h

diff --git a/urcu-bp.h b/urcu-bp.h
index cca664bc906c7fbbedd94dabeb7a1a7195610811..d92fbd1755047cc8cb446f9ec568d6b332f29a16 100644 (file)
--- a/urcu-bp.h
+++ b/urcu-bp.h
@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ extern void rcu_read_unlock(void);
 
 extern void synchronize_rcu(void);
 
+/*
+ * rcu_bp_before_fork, rcu_bp_after_fork_parent and rcu_bp_after_fork_child
+ * should be called around fork() system calls when the child process is not
+ * expected to immediately perform an exec(). For pthread users, see
+ * pthread_atfork(3).
+ */
+extern void rcu_bp_before_fork(void);
+extern void rcu_bp_after_fork_parent(void);
+extern void rcu_bp_after_fork_child(void);
+
 /*
  * In the bulletproof version, the following functions are no-ops.
  */