From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755277AbdKJHa7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:30:59 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:33668 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847AbdKJHa5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:30:57 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMbXSLaD+eF87oHShNcwPFEabLWtIJL4LHTxfab2hJ3Z6/DdChmjPi8x4SuHaWitKvrCkf3gGw== Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:30:53 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Byungchul Park Cc: peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lge.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] locking/lockdep: Revise Documentation/locking/crossrelease.txt Message-ID: <20171110073053.qh4nhpl26i47gbiv@gmail.com> References: <1510212036-22008-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1510212036-22008-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Byungchul Park 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