From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754701AbcCJJpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:45:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57333 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754586AbcCJJpj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:45:39 -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: References: <1457570939-7740-2-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com> <1457570939-7740-1-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com> <30258.1457597615@warthog.procyon.org.uk> 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: <3598.1457603136.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:45:36 +0000 Message-ID: <3599.1457603136@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org SeongJae Park 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