linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] locking: Introduce local

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Message-ID: <20200525071214.GC329373@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 09:12:14 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] locking: Introduce local_lock()


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

> ( The other departure from spinlocks is that the 'spinlock_t' name, 
>   without underscores, while making the API names such as spin_lock() 
>   with an underscore, was a conscious didactic choice. Applying that 
>   principle to local locks gives us the spinlock_t-equivalent name of 
>   'locallock_t' - but the double 'l' reads a bit weirdly in this 
>   context. So I think using 'local_lock_t' as the data structure is 
>   probably the better approach. )

BTW., along this argument, I believe we should rename the local-lock 
header file from <linux/locallock.h> to <linux/local_lock.h>.

The reason for the <linux/spinlock.h> naming is that the main data 
structure is spinlock_t.

Having <linux/locallock.h> for 'struct local_lock' or 'local_lock_t' 
would introduce an idiosyncratic namespace quirk for no good reason.

Thanks,

	Ingo