From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] locking: Introduce local_lock()
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 09:12:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525071214.GC329373@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200525070139.GB329373@gmail.com>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> ( The other departure from spinlocks is that the 'spinlock_t' name,
> without underscores, while making the API names such as spin_lock()
> with an underscore, was a conscious didactic choice. Applying that
> principle to local locks gives us the spinlock_t-equivalent name of
> 'locallock_t' - but the double 'l' reads a bit weirdly in this
> context. So I think using 'local_lock_t' as the data structure is
> probably the better approach. )
BTW., along this argument, I believe we should rename the local-lock
header file from <linux/locallock.h> to <linux/local_lock.h>.
The reason for the <linux/spinlock.h> naming is that the main data
structure is spinlock_t.
Having <linux/locallock.h> for 'struct local_lock' or 'local_lock_t'
would introduce an idiosyncratic namespace quirk for no good reason.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-24 21:57 [PATCH 0/7 v2] Introduce local_lock() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] locking: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 7:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 7:12 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2020-05-25 11:27 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 11:26 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] radix-tree: Use local_lock for protection Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 6:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 11:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-25 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 11:17 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] mm/swap: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 6:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 17:07 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] squashfs: make use of local lock in multi_cpu decompressor Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] connector/cn_proc: Protect send_msg() with a local lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 7:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 14:51 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] zram: Allocate struct zcomp_strm as per-CPU memory Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 16:50 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-24 21:57 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] zram: Use local lock to protect per-CPU data Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25 7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-05-25 16:51 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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