On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:52:50AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sj38.p...@gmail.com>
>
> Terms `lock` and `unlock` have changed to `acquire` / `release` by
> commit 2e4f5382d12a441b5cccfdde00308df15c2ce300 ("locking/doc: Rename
> LOCK/UNLOCK to ACQUIRE/RELEASE"). However, the commit missed to change
> the table of content. This commit changes the missed parts.
> Also, section name `Acquiring functions` is not appropriate for the
> section because the section is saying about lock in actual. This commit
> changes the name to more appropriate name, `Lock acquisition functions`.
>
True, because of this ppc thing :/
If we get PPC to switch to RCsc locks, there actually is a difference
again.
Given the current state I'm not sure how much we should care, but
there's a fundamental difference between things like load-acquire and
acquiring a lock, in that the lock-acquire must also very much imply a
store.
In any case, these are jet-lagged ramblings, feel free to ignore :-)
