Re: [PATCH 2/2 v6] locking/selftest: Support queued rwlock

[Shuah Khan]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe I wasn't clear; but I meant you should extend the lock tests to
> cover the full qrwlock semantics.
>
> That means we also need tests like:
>
>         RL(X1);
>         IRQ_ENTER();
>         RL(X2);
>         IRQ_EXIT();
>
> To fully validate that in_interrupt exception to fairness etc..

A bit off topic for this patch, however relevant for tests in general.
Is there a reason why these locking selftests need to be under lib?
Can they be consolidated under tools/testing/selftests?

-- Shuah
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