From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 02:40:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/locking/locktypes: minor copy editor fixes Message-Id: <20200326024037.GJ19865@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> List-Id: References: <20200323025501.GE3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <87r1xhz6qp.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> <20200325002811.GO19865@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <87wo78y5yy.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Sebastian Siewior , Linus Torvalds , Joel Fernandes , Oleg Nesterov , Davidlohr Bueso , Jonathan Corbet , Logan Gunthorpe , Bjorn Helgaas , Kurt Schwemmer , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Felipe Balbi , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Kalle Valo , "David S. Miller" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart , Andy Shevchenko , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Zhang Rui , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, kbuild test robot , Nick Hu , Greentime Hu , Vincent Chen , Guo Ren , linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, Brian Cain , linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , Michael Ellerman , Arnd Bergmann , Geoff Levand , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Davidlohr Bueso On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:58:14AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap > > Minor editorial fixes: > - add some hyphens in multi-word adjectives > - add some periods for consistency > - add "'" for possessive CPU's > - capitalize IRQ when it's an acronym and not part of a function name > > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap > Cc: Paul McKenney > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Sebastian Siewior > Cc: Joel Fernandes > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Peter Zijlstra Some nits below, but with or without those suggested changes: Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney > --- > Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst | 16 ++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > --- linux-next-20200325.orig/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst > +++ linux-next-20200325/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst > @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ rtmutex > > RT-mutexes are mutexes with support for priority inheritance (PI). > > -PI has limitations on non PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels due to preemption and > +PI has limitations on non-PREEMPT_RT-enabled kernels due to preemption and Or just drop the " enabled". > interrupt disabled sections. > > PI clearly cannot preempt preemption-disabled or interrupt-disabled > @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ kernel configuration including PREEMPT_R > > raw_spinlock_t is a strict spinning lock implementation in all kernels, > including PREEMPT_RT kernels. Use raw_spinlock_t only in real critical > -core code, low level interrupt handling and places where disabling > +core code, low-level interrupt handling and places where disabling > preemption or interrupts is required, for example, to safely access > hardware state. raw_spinlock_t can sometimes also be used when the > critical section is tiny, thus avoiding RT-mutex overhead. > @@ -160,20 +160,20 @@ spinlock_t > > The semantics of spinlock_t change with the state of PREEMPT_RT. > > -On a non PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to raw_spinlock_t > +On a non-PREEMPT_RT-enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to raw_spinlock_t Ditto. > and has exactly the same semantics. > > spinlock_t and PREEMPT_RT > ------------------------- > > -On a PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to a separate > +On a PREEMPT_RT-enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to a separate And here as well. > implementation based on rt_mutex which changes the semantics: > > - - Preemption is not disabled > + - Preemption is not disabled. > > - The hard interrupt related suffixes for spin_lock / spin_unlock > - operations (_irq, _irqsave / _irqrestore) do not affect the CPUs > - interrupt disabled state > + operations (_irq, _irqsave / _irqrestore) do not affect the CPU's > + interrupt disabled state. > > - The soft interrupt related suffix (_bh()) still disables softirq > handlers. > @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ fully preemptible context. Instead, use > spin_lock_irqsave() and their unlock counterparts. In cases where the > interrupt disabling and locking must remain separate, PREEMPT_RT offers a > local_lock mechanism. Acquiring the local_lock pins the task to a CPU, > -allowing things like per-CPU irq-disabled locks to be acquired. However, > +allowing things like per-CPU IRQ-disabled locks to be acquired. However, Quite a bit of text in the kernel uses "irq", lower case. Another option is to spell out "interrupt". > this approach should be used only where absolutely necessary. > > >