[PATCH 1/4] hwmon: Support guard() and scoped_guard for subsystem locks

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 10:14:33 EST


Add support for guard() and scoped_guard() for the hwmon subsystem lock
to simplify its use.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst | 7 ++++---
include/linux/hwmon.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
index 1d7f1397a827..9fcde32a140d 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
@@ -85,9 +85,10 @@ removal.
When using ``[devm_]hwmon_device_register_with_info()`` to register the
hardware monitoring device, accesses using the associated access functions
are serialised by the hardware monitoring core. If a driver needs locking
-for other functions such as interrupt handlers or for attributes which are
-fully implemented in the driver, hwmon_lock() and hwmon_unlock() can be used
-to ensure that calls to those functions are serialized.
+for other functions such as interrupt handlers, attributes which are fully
+implemented in the driver, or debugfs functions, hwmon_lock() and hwmon_unlock()
+can be used to ensure that calls to those functions are serialized. Those
+functions also support guard() and scoped_guard() variants.

Using devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info()
--------------------------------------------
diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h
index 301a83afbd66..04959e044fd0 100644
--- a/include/linux/hwmon.h
+++ b/include/linux/hwmon.h
@@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name);
void hwmon_lock(struct device *dev);
void hwmon_unlock(struct device *dev);

+DEFINE_GUARD(hwmon_lock, struct device *, hwmon_lock(_T), hwmon_unlock(_T))
+
/**
* hwmon_is_bad_char - Is the char invalid in a hwmon name
* @ch: the char to be considered
--
2.45.2

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