From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:02:00 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: checkpatch: warn when declaring "struct spinlock foo;"
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88982fea52d0115d44b77619afef576f24cdb844;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git

checkpatch: warn when declaring "struct spinlock foo;"

spinlock_t should always be used.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e0a674f471ee..f27b0b53e3ea 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3336,6 +3336,12 @@ sub process {
 			     "Avoid line continuations in quoted strings\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
+# check for struct spinlock declarations
+		if ($line =~ /^.\s*\bstruct\s+spinlock\s+\w+\s*;/) {
+			WARN("USE_SPINLOCK_T",
+			     "struct spinlock should be spinlock_t\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # Check for misused memsets
 		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
 		    defined $stat &&