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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 09:04:34AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 2.	If we were to say "unlock" instead of "release", consistency
> 	would demand that we also say "lock" instead of "acquire".
> 	But "lock" is subtlely different than "acquire", and there is
> 	a history of people requesting further divergence.

This, acquire/release are RCpc, while (with the exception of Power)
LOCK/UNLOCK are RCsc.

( Or did we settle on RCtso for our release/acquire order? I have vague
memories of a long-ish thread, but seem to have forgotten the outcome,
if any. )

Lots of subtlety and head-aches right about there. Anyway, it would be
awesome if we can get Power into the RCsc locking camp :-)