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            <keyword>Synchronization, barrier</keyword>
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        <refentrytitle>barrier</refentrytitle>

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            All work-items in a work-group executing the kernel on a processor must execute this function before any are allowed to continue execution beyond the barrier.
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                <paramdef><link xlink:href="enums.html#cl_mem_fence_flags">cl_mem_fence_flags</link><parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
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        <para>
          All work-items in a work-group executing the kernel on a processor must execute
          this function before any are allowed to continue execution beyond the barrier.
          This function must be encountered by all work-items in a work-group executing the kernel.
        </para>

        <para>
          If <function>barrier</function> is inside a conditional statement, then all work-items
          must enter the conditional if any work-item enters the conditional statement and
          executes the <function>barrier</function>.
        </para>

        <para>
          If <function>barrier</function> is inside a loop, all work-items must execute the
          <function>barrier</function> for each iteration of the loop before any are allowed
          to continue execution beyond the <function>barrier</function>.
        </para>

        <para>
          The <function>barrier</function> function also queues a memory fence (reads and writes)
          to ensure correct ordering of memory operations to local or global memory.
        </para>

        <para>
          The <varname>flags</varname> argument specifies the memory address space and can be
          set to a combination of the following literal values.
        </para>

        <para>
          <constant>CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE</constant> - The <function>barrier</function> function
          will either flush any variables stored in local memory or queue a memory fence to
          ensure correct ordering of memory operations to local memory.
        </para>

        <para>
          <constant>CLK_GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE</constant> - The <function>barrier</function> function
          will queue a memory fence to ensure correct ordering of memory operations to global
          memory. This can be useful when work-items, for example, write to buffer or image
          objects and then want to read the updated data.
        </para>
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