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Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
	Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: msleep() on recursivly locked mutexes
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Attilio Rao wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>
>>> First of all: Where is FreeBSD's locking strategy document? 
>> It is just started.. man 9 locking.  it needs a lot of work still.
> 
> I'm working with rwatson@ about a document that can nicely fit in 
> locking(9), but we are a little bit stuck in terminology.
> In order to not confuse even more locking consumers we are trying to 
> find right and unique terms for kernel events linked to locks.
> 
> 
> Attilio

send me what you have :-)
I'll look at it too.