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

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:35 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, corbet@....net,
	minchan@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire

SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.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