# MPI_Win_fence

Perform an MPI fence synchronization on a MPI window

## Synopsis

    int MPI_Win_fence(int assert, MPI_Win win)

## Input Parameters

assert
  program assertion (integer)
win
  window object (handle)

## Notes

The `assert` argument is used to indicate special conditions for the fence that an implementation may use to optimize the `MPI_Win_fence` operation. The value zero is always correct. Other assertion values may be or'ed together. Assertions that are valid for `MPI_Win_fence` are:

MPI_MODE_NOSTORE
  the local window was not updated by local stores (or local get or receive calls) since last synchronization.
MPI_MODE_NOPUT
  the local window will not be updated by put or accumulate calls after the fence call, until the ensuing (fence) synchronization.
MPI_MODE_NOPRECEDE
  the fence does not complete any sequence of locally issued RMA calls. If this assertion is given by any process in the window group, then it must be given by all processes in the group.
MPI_MODE_NOSUCCEED
  the fence does not start any sequence of locally issued RMA calls. If the assertion is given by any process in the window group, then it must be given by all processes in the group.

## Thread and Interrupt Safety

This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as `malloc` or other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.

## Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for `MPI_WTIME` and `MPI_WTICK`) have an additional argument `ierr` at the end of the argument list. `ierr` is an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the `call` statement.

All MPI objects (e.g., `MPI_Datatype`, `MPI_Comm`) are of type `INTEGER` in Fortran.

## Errors

All MPI routines (except `MPI_Wtime` and `MPI_Wtick`) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with `MPI_Comm_set_errhandler` (for communicators), `MPI_File_set_errhandler` (for files), and `MPI_Win_set_errhandler` (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine `MPI_Errhandler_set` may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler `MPI_ERRORS_RETURN` may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible.

MPI_SUCCESS
  No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

MPI_ERR_OTHER
  Other error; use `MPI_Error_string` to get more information about this error code.

MPI_ERR_WIN
  Invalid MPI window object