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    drivers: hwspinlock: add framework · bd9a4c7d
    Ohad Ben-Cohen authored
    Add a platform-independent hwspinlock framework.
    
    Hardware spinlock devices are needed, e.g., in order to access data
    that is shared between remote processors, that otherwise have no
    alternative mechanism to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion
    operations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
    Cc: Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>
    Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
    Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
    Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
    Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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