Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751073AbVLOUxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:53:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751070AbVLOUxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:53:45 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:54751 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069AbVLOUxn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:53:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation From: Steven Rostedt To: Christopher Friesen Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx, arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, pj@sgi.com, dhowells@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Nikita Danilov In-Reply-To: <43A19EC4.5040505@nortel.com> References: <1134559121.25663.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <13820.1134558138@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20051213143147.d2a57fb3.pj@sgi.com> <20051213094053.33284360.pj@sgi.com> <20051212161944.3185a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213075441.GB6765@elte.hu> <20051213090219.GA27857@infradead.org> <20051213093949.GC26097@elte.hu> <20051213100015.GA32194@elte.hu> <6281.1134498864@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <14242.1134558772@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <16315.1134563707@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1134568731.4275.4.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <43A0AD54.6050109@rtr.ca> <20051214155432.320f2950.akpm@osdl.org> <17313.29296.170999.539035@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1134658579.12421.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17313.37200.728099.873988@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <43A19EC4.5040505@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:53:30 -0500 Message-Id: <1134680010.13138.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:50 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > And to convert almost all calls to down/up to mutex_{down,up}. At which > > point, it no longer makes sense to share the same data-type for > > semaphore and mutex. > > If we're going to call it a mutex, it would make sense to use familiar > terminology and call it lock/unlock rather than down/up. ACK! -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/