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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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