Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:45:36 +0000 |
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SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> - - Locking functions. > >> + - Acquiring functions. > ... > > It's specifically talking about locking functions that the kernel provides - > > or are we calling the spin acquires and R/W spin acquires now? "Locking" is > > the key that people referring to the document are going to use. > > AFAIU, the next line of the quoted text says the section is talking about > variants on "ACQUIRE" operations and "RELEASE" operations for each locking > constructs.
Whilst that's true, most people think of them as locks. You could change the name of the section to:
Locking/Acquiring functions
or:
Lock acquisition functions
perhaps.
David
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