linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] asm-generic: add atomic-instrumented.h

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Message-ID: <20170328213513.GB12803@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:35:13 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     mark.rutland@....com, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, will.deacon@....com,
        aryabinin@...tuozzo.com, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] asm-generic: add atomic-instrumented.h

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:15:41PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> The new header allows to wrap per-arch atomic operations
> and add common functionality to all of them.

Why a new header instead of putting this in linux/atomic.h?