Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug

Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24T11:00:41Z

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:04 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
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> This patch renames lock_cpu_hotplug to cpu_hotplug_disable and
> unlock_cpu_hotplug to cpu_hotplug_enable throughout the kernel.

Hi,

to be honest I dislike the new names too. You turned it into a refcount,
which is good, but the normal linux name for such refcount functions is
_get and _put..... and in addition the refcount technically isn't
hotplug specific, all you want is to keep the kernel data for the
processor as being "used", so cpu_get() and cpu_put() would sound
reasonable names to me, or cpu_data_get() cpu_data_put().

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven