Re: [PATCH 1/2] seqlock: Add a new blocking reader type

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:33:35PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:

> >Folks, any suggestions on better names?  The semantics we are getting is
> 
> I will welcome any better name suggestion and will incorporate that
> in the patch.

FWIW, the suggestions I've seen so far had been

seq_exreadlock() [ex for exclusive]
seq_exclreadlock() [ditto, and IMO fails the "easily read over the phone"
test - /sekv-excre...ARRGH/]
seq_prot_readlock() [prot for protected, as in DLM protected read]
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