Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:37:30 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 8/9] Documentation: Fix invalid rcu assumptions |
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:07:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, David Howells wrote: > > > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > > > -197 * we use RCU protection here > > > +196 * caller must be holding the RCU readlocke > > > > You mean "readlock" I suspect. > > Or maybe he's talking about ye olde readlocke, used widely for OS research > throughout the middle ages. You still find that spelling in some really > old CS literature.
Interestingly enough, they also tended to split it into two words and capitalize it, as can be seen by searching for "Read Locke" at
http://faculty.uml.edu/enelson/modern07.htm
Thanx, Paul
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