Re: [PATCH 04/16] tools/include: Update atomic.h header

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 02:21:22PM +0100, Karolina Drobnik wrote:
> Add atomic_long_t typedef and atomic_long_set function so they
>  can be used in testing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karolina Drobnik <karolinadrobnik@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/include/linux/atomic.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/include/linux/atomic.h b/tools/include/linux/atomic.h
> index 00a6c4ca562b..5d2431889606 100644
> --- a/tools/include/linux/atomic.h
> +++ b/tools/include/linux/atomic.h
> @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/atomic.h>
>  
> +typedef atomic_t atomic_long_t;

Given this:

typedef struct {
        int counter;
} atomic_t;

your definition seems wrong.  Why not add atomic_long_t to types.h,
adjacent to atomic_t?