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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2026-08-14 15:43:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2026-08-14 15:43:51 -0700 |
| commit | 9cc63f8bcd560c760d0b12e15bba8f81c86237cf (patch) | |
| tree | 3b5269b1bcf6714171754946367c51e0590f64da /Documentation/driver-api/miscellaneous.rst | |
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Merge branches 'expcb.2026.07.24a', 'misc.2026.07.30a', 'rcu-tasks.2026.07.30a', 'srcu.2026.08.11a' and 'torture.2026.08.14a' into HEADgrafted
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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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/miscellaneous.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/miscellaneous.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4a5104a36 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/miscellaneous.rst @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Parallel Port Devices +===================== + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/parport.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/parport/ieee1284.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/parport/share.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/parport/daisy.c + :internal: + +16x50 UART Driver +================= + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c + :export: + +See serial/driver.rst for related APIs. + +Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) +============================ + +Pulse-width modulation is a modulation technique primarily used to +control power supplied to electrical devices. + +The PWM framework provides an abstraction for providers and consumers of +PWM signals. A controller that provides one or more PWM signals is +registered as :c:type:`struct pwm_chip <pwm_chip>`. Providers +are expected to embed this structure in a driver-specific structure. +This structure contains fields that describe a particular chip. + +A chip exposes one or more PWM signal sources, each of which exposed as +a :c:type:`struct pwm_device <pwm_device>`. Operations can be +performed on PWM devices to control the period, duty cycle, polarity and +active state of the signal. + +Note that PWM devices are exclusive resources: they can always only be +used by one consumer at a time. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pwm.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pwm/core.c + :export: |
