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    locking/doc: Rename LOCK/UNLOCK to ACQUIRE/RELEASE · 2e4f5382
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    
    
    The LOCK and UNLOCK barriers as described in our barrier document are
    generally known as ACQUIRE and RELEASE barriers in other literature.
    
    Since we plan to introduce the acquire and release nomenclature in
    generic kernel primitives we should amend the document to avoid
    confusion as to what an acquire/release means.
    Reviewed-by: default avatar"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
    Cc: Tony Luck <t...
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