On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > > There are use cases where we want to allow nesting of one terminal lock > > underneath another terminal-like lock. That new lock type is called > > nestable terminal lock which can optionally allow the acquisition of > > no more than one regular (non-nestable) terminal lock underneath it. > > I think I asked for a more coherent changelog on this. The above is > still self contradictory and doesn't explain why you'd ever want such a > 'misfeature' :-) So maybe call the thing penterminal (contraction of penultimate and terminal) locks and explain why this annotation is safe -- in great detail.
