Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc/memory-barriers: fix missed renaming: s/lock/acquire

[David Howells]

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