From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935187AbcCJIvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:51:07 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f67.google.com ([209.85.220.67]:35035 "EHLO mail-pa0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752819AbcCJIuz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:50:55 -0500 From: SeongJae Park X-Google-Original-From: SeongJae Park Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:50:49 +0900 (KST) To: David Howells cc: SeongJae Park , 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 In-Reply-To: <30258.1457597615@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Message-ID: 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> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, David Howells wrote: > 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. 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. I thought the original change which changed the name of section has made full consensus and I am just want to make the section names in `Contents` section and its real section name. I will listen to other's opinions more. Thanks, SeongJae Park > > David >