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[PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire

From SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire
Date 2016-03-10 01:50 +0100
Message-ID <raWXE-7BC-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Terms `lock` and `unlock` have changed to `acquire` / `release` by
commit 2e4f5382d12a441b5cccfdde00308df15c2ce300 ("locking/doc: Rename
LOCK/UNLOCK to ACQUIRE/RELEASE").  However, the commit missed to change
the table of content.  This commit changes the missed parts.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 3729cbe..6b453f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ Contents:
 
  (*) Implicit kernel memory barriers.
 
-     - Locking functions.
+     - Acquiring functions.
      - Interrupt disabling functions.
      - Sleep and wake-up functions.
      - Miscellaneous functions.
 
- (*) Inter-CPU locking barrier effects.
+ (*) Inter-CPU acquiring barrier effects.
 
-     - Locks vs memory accesses.
-     - Locks vs I/O accesses.
+     - Acquires vs memory accesses.
+     - Acquires vs I/O accesses.
 
  (*) Where are memory barriers needed?
 
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ This is a variation on the mandatory write barrier that causes writes to weakly
 ordered I/O regions to be partially ordered.  Its effects may go beyond the
 CPU->Hardware interface and actually affect the hardware at some level.
 
-See the subsection "Locks vs I/O accesses" for more information.
+See the subsection "Acquires vs I/O accesses" for more information.
 
 
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[PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 01:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-03-10 09:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming:  s/lock/acquire SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 10:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-03-10 10:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 15:50 +0100

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