On 11/10/2017 4:30 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx> 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.
I will send one including minimal fixes at the next spin.
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Thanks,
Byungchul
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