diff --git a/kharma/decs.hpp b/kharma/decs.hpp
index 27bd5641..edaa296f 100644
--- a/kharma/decs.hpp
+++ b/kharma/decs.hpp
@@ -149,10 +149,14 @@ inline int MPINumRanks()
 {
     return parthenon::Globals::nranks;
 }
-inline int MPIMyRank()
+inline int MPIRank()
 {
     return parthenon::Globals::my_rank;
 }
+inline int MPIBarrier()
+{
+    return MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+}
 
 // A few generic "NDArray" overloads for readability.
 // TODO torn on futures of these: they're explicitly per-block