linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] sched: Use fancy new guards

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Date:   Fri, 26 May 2023 18:43:53 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] sched: Use fancy new guards

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:27:51PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> > Anyway, the naming is whack, but I don't have a proposed better name,
> > except you might want to put "scope_" as the prefix not the suffix, but
> > then that might look odd to, so who knows.
> 
> FWIW C++ has std::scoped_lock. So perhaps using a similar wording may help ?

Yeah, C++ is a lot more flexible than CPP crazies. But yeah, happy to
change it that way.