On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:45 PM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Thank you for your suggestion, David. I will send new patchset ASAP. Thanks, SeongJae Park > > 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
