From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754502AbcCJINo (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:13:44 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56055 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752444AbcCJINi (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:13:38 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1457570939-7740-2-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com> References: <1457570939-7740-2-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com> <1457570939-7740-1-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com> To: SeongJae Park Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, corbet@lwn.net, minchan@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <30257.1457597615.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:35 +0000 Message-ID: <30258.1457597615@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org SeongJae Park wrote: > - - Locking functions. > + - Acquiring functions. Actually, this should be 'locking' functions. If you look at the text: ACQUIRING FUNCTIONS ------------------- The Linux kernel has a number of locking constructs: (*) spin locks (*) R/W spin locks (*) mutexes (*) semaphores (*) R/W semaphores 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. David