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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:37:49 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core] atomics: Add test for atomic operations
 with _relaxed variants

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:52:45PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Some atomic operations now have _relaxed/acquire/release variants, this
> patch then adds some trivial tests for two purpose:
> 
> 1.	test the behavior of these new operations in single-CPU
> 	environment.
> 
> 2.	make their code generated before we actually use them somewhere,
> 	so that we can examine their assembly code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>

Thanks!
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