From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
pbonzini@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Lock and Pointer guards
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 15:40:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230606134005.GE905437@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wi-RyoUhbChiVaJZoZXheAwnJ7OO=Gxe85BkPAd93TwDA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:17:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, I still don't understand why you lke the name "guard" for
> this. I understand not liking "auto", but "guard" doesn't seem any
> better. In fact, much worse. Guarded expressions means something
> completely different both in real life and in computer science.
>
> I'm assuming there's some history there, but it makes no sense to me
> as a name here.
I know the name from C++ where it is std::lock_guard<> (well, back when
I still did C++ it wasn't std, but whatever), and Rust seems to have
std::sync::MutexGuard<>.
But if that's the sole objection left, lets have a bike-shed party and
pick a colour :-)
'shield' 'sentry' 'sentinel' 'keeper' 'custodian' 'warden' ?
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2023-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Lock and Pointer guards Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-06 13:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-06 13:40 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-06-06 14:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-06 16:06 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-06 18:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-06 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-07 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-08 8:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-08 9:04 ` Greg KH
2023-06-08 15:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-08 16:47 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-08 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-08 17:20 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-06-08 18:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-08 20:14 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-06-09 10:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-06-08 20:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-09 2:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-09 8:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-09 21:18 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-09 8:27 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2023-06-06 15:31 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-06 15:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-06-06 16:08 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-08 16:25 ` David Laight
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