Re: [patch 8/9] Documentation: Fix invalid rcu assumptions

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:07:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, David Howells wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > -197          * we use RCU protection here
> > > +196          * caller must be holding the RCU readlocke
> > 
> > You mean "readlock" I suspect.
> 
> Or maybe he's talking about ye olde readlocke, used widely for OS research 
> throughout the middle ages. You still find that spelling in some really 
> old CS literature.

Interestingly enough, they also tended to split it into two words and
capitalize it, as can be seen by searching for "Read Locke" at

	http://faculty.uml.edu/enelson/modern07.htm

							Thanx, Paul
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