Re: [PATCH 8/8] mmap locking API: rename mmap_sem to mmap_lock

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Mon, 06 Apr 2020, Laurent Dufour wrote:

> Le 26/03/2020 à 08:02, Michel Lespinasse a écrit :
> > Rename the mmap_sem field to mmap_lock. Any new uses of this lock
> > should now go through the new mmap locking api. The mmap_lock is
> > still implemented as a rwsem, though this could change in the future.
>
> Since you don't change the type of the mmap_sem, it's still a 
> semaphore, I don't think mmap_lock is a good name. This is not a lock.

Well a semaphore is still a kind of lock. I think the naming in this
patch is good and generic enough.

Thanks,
Davidlohr