Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 2/2] percpu-refcount: implementpercpu_ref_cancel_init()
From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Thu Jun 13 2013 - 00:00:29 EST
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> At first I named it percpu_ref_free() but it looked too symmetric to
> init, more so than kill, so I was worried that people might get
> confused that this is the normal interface to shutdown a percpu
> refcnt, so the weird cancel_init name and further restriction on its
> usage.
...Yeah, confusion with _kill() is a good point. Ok, cancel_init() it
is.
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