SeongJae Park <sj38.park@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> - - Locking functions. > >> + - Acquiring functions. > ... > > 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. > > AFAIU, the next line of the quoted text says the section is talking about > variants on "ACQUIRE" operations and "RELEASE" operations for each locking > constructs. Whilst that's true, most people think of them as locks. You could change the name of the section to: Locking/Acquiring functions or: Lock acquisition functions perhaps. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
