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Changes: Make expedited grace periods expedite normal RCU callbacks Miscellaneous fixes: * Improve diagnostic output with character task states. * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design. * Move from kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj(). * Documentation updates. * Improve handling of RCU deferred quiescent states. * Clean up unused function arguments and structure fields. * Reduce show_rcu_gp_kthreads() stack space. Tasks RCU updates: * Clean up after SRCU re-implementation of Tasks Trace RCU. * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design. * Add ->lazy_timer status to diagnostic output. * Remove an unnecessary memory barrier. * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN. * Documentation updates. * Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() from macro to static inline function. SRCU updates: * Add Rust helpers for SRCU. * Avoid losing queued work at cleanup_srcu_struct() time. Torture-test updates: * Preparation work for immediate RCU priority deboosting. * Test RCU readers from real interrupt handlers (as opposed to softirq). * Simplify code through use of cpumask_next_wrap(). * Improve diagnostic output with character task states. * Add rcutorture.nwriters parameter to allow lightweight stall testing, and rcutorture.stall_only to make doing so easier. * Test an RCU Tasks Trace grace period implying an RCU grace period. * Make RCU Tasks Trace torturing track reader batches. * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN. * Plug a shuffle_tmp_mask memory leak on kthread spawn failure.
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+Driver Basics
+=============
+
+Driver Entry and Exit points
+----------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/module.h
+ :internal:
+
+Driver device table
+-------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
+ :internal:
+ :no-identifiers: pci_device_id
+
+
+Delaying and scheduling routines
+--------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sched.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/cpupri.c
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/fair.c
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/completion.h
+ :internal:
+
+Time and timer routines
+-----------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/jiffies.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/time/time.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/time/timer.c
+ :export:
+
+High-resolution timers
+----------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/ktime.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/hrtimer.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+ :export:
+
+Wait queues and Wake events
+---------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wait.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/wait.c
+ :export:
+
+Internal Functions
+------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/exit.c
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/signal.c
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/kthread.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/kthread.c
+ :export:
+
+Reference counting
+------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/refcount.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/refcount.c
+ :export:
+
+Atomics
+-------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h
+ :internal:
+
+Kernel objects manipulation
+---------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/kobject.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/kobject_uevent.c
+ :export:
+
+Kernel utility functions
+------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/array_size.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/container_of.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/kstrtox.h
+ :internal:
+ :no-identifiers: kstrtol kstrtoul
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/stddef.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/util_macros.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wordpart.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/printk/printk.c
+ :export:
+ :no-identifiers: printk
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/panic.c
+ :export:
+
+Device Resource Management
+--------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/devres.c
+ :export:
+