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Date:   Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:30:53 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] locking/lockdep: Revise
 Documentation/locking/crossrelease.txt


* Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com> wrote:

>     Event C depends on event A.
>     Event A depends on event B.
>     Event B depends on event C.
>  
> -   NOTE: Precisely speaking, a dependency is one between whether a
> -   waiter for an event can be woken up and whether another waiter for
> -   another event can be woken up. However from now on, we will describe
> -   a dependency as if it's one between an event and another event for
> -   simplicity.

Why was this explanation removed?

> -Lockdep tries to detect a deadlock by checking dependencies created by
> -lock operations, acquire and release. Waiting for a lock corresponds to
> -waiting for an event, and releasing a lock corresponds to triggering an
> -event in the previous section.
> +Lockdep tries to detect a deadlock by checking circular dependencies
> +created by lock operations, acquire and release, which are wait and
> +event respectively.

What? You changed a readable paragraph into an unreadable one.

Sorry, this text needs to be acked by someone with good English skills, and I 
don't have the time right now to fix it all up. Please send minimal, obvious
typo/grammar fixes only.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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