Re: [PATCH RFC 03/33] locking: Introduce <linux/thread_safety.h>

[Christoph Hellwig]

> - a struct that represents a synchronization object is annotated with the
>   CAPABILITY() attribute,
> - the operations on that synchronization object are annotated with the
>   ACQUIRE() and RELEASE() attributes,
> - if variables or members that should be guarded by a synchronization
>   object are annotated with GUARDED_BY(),

Those are all nasty shouting names, without and good prefixing.

But more importantly ACQUIRE() and RELEASE() seems to duplicate the
existing __acquires/__releases annotations from sparse.  We really need
to find away to unify them instead of duplicating the annotations.