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

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire
Date 2016-03-10 09:20 +0100
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SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> 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

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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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