On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:54:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:01:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

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People often use the term "the foo() function".  I don't know why -
just say "foo()"!

For whatever it is worth...

I tend to use "The foo() function ..." instead of "foo() ..." in order
to properly capitalize the first word of the sentence.  So I might say
"The call_rcu() function enqueues an RCU callback." rather than something
like "call_rcu() enqueues an RCU callback."  Or I might use some other
trick to keep "call_rcu()" from being the first word of the sentence.

I tend to write 'Use call_rcu() to enqueue a callback." or "When
call_rcu() returns, the callback will have been enqueued".