[PATCH v5 10/15] hwspinlock: handle hwspinlock device allocation in the core

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com> wrote:
>
> Providers have been refactored to avoid using core internal structures.
> As a result, they do not need to allocate the hwspinlock device on their
> own anymore because they can access everything they need with helpers.
>
> So, the allocation is moved to the core. As a result, the registering
> functions now return a pointer to the (soon) opaque hwspinlock device
> which may be needed for unregistering only.
>
> Because the argument list of the registering functions is changed, all
> users are changed here as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/locking/hwspinlock.rst  |  6 ++--
>  drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c  | 48 +++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/hwspinlock/omap_hwspinlock.c  | 10 ++----
>  drivers/hwspinlock/qcom_hwspinlock.c  | 11 ++----
>  drivers/hwspinlock/sprd_hwspinlock.c  | 17 ++++------
>  drivers/hwspinlock/stm32_hwspinlock.c |  7 ++--

>  drivers/hwspinlock/sun6i_hwspinlock.c | 12 ++-----

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at kernel.org> # for sun6i