From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755364AbdKJHlZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:41:25 -0500 Received: from LGEAMRELO11.lge.com ([156.147.23.51]:50439 "EHLO lgeamrelo11.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750835AbdKJHlX (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:41:23 -0500 X-Original-SENDERIP: 156.147.1.151 X-Original-MAILFROM: byungchul.park@lge.com X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.222.184 X-Original-MAILFROM: byungchul.park@lge.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] locking/lockdep: Revise Documentation/locking/crossrelease.txt To: Ingo Molnar 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 References: <1510212036-22008-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <20171110073053.qh4nhpl26i47gbiv@gmail.com> From: Byungchul Park Message-ID: <2f2de6c8-ef4b-070d-a81d-eed677bcce35@lge.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:41:18 +0900 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171110073053.qh4nhpl26i47gbiv@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/10/2017 4:30 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * 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. I will send one including minimal fixes at the next spin. -- Thanks, Byungchul