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 e0a674f..f27b0b5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3336,6 +3336,12 @@
"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 &&