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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] locking/lockdep: Revise Documentation/locking/crossrelease.txt

* Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> wrote:

> Event C depends on event A.
> Event A depends on event B.
> Event B depends on event C.
>
> - NOTE: Precisely speaking, a dependency is one between whether a
> - waiter for an event can be woken up and whether another waiter for
> - another event can be woken up. However from now on, we will describe
> - a dependency as if it's one between an event and another event for
> - simplicity.

Why was this explanation removed?

> -Lockdep tries to detect a deadlock by checking dependencies created by
> -lock operations, acquire and release. Waiting for a lock corresponds to
> -waiting for an event, and releasing a lock corresponds to triggering an
> -event in the previous section.
> +Lockdep tries to detect a deadlock by checking circular dependencies
> +created by lock operations, acquire and release, which are wait and
> +event respectively.

What? You changed a readable paragraph into an unreadable one.

Sorry, this text needs to be acked by someone with good English skills, and I
don't have the time right now to fix it all up. Please send minimal, obvious
typo/grammar fixes only.

Thanks,

Ingo

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