Disable sys_membarrier
sys_membarrier underwent changes between its original implementation and
its upcoming inclusion into the Linux kernel. Disable it to ensure we
do not use the ABI incorrectly.
Should the prior user-space code be built against a kernel header that
defines SYS_membarrier, and executed against that kernel, the following
scenarios may happen:
- -1 will be returned with EINVAL errno if the 2nd argument (flags) is
non-zero (the previous ABI expected a single argument),
- (MEMBARRIER_EXPEDITED | MEMBARRIER_QUERY) defined as
(1 << 0) | (1 << 16) will return -1 with EINVAL errno, because valid
commands are now one-hot.
Therefore, should an incompatible user-space code try to use
sys_membarrier, it will simply think that the system does not have
membarrier support due to the negative return value upon query.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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