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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/wmi.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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst')
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b847bcdcb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later + +============== +WMI Driver API +============== + +The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting +with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is +considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since +it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID. +The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a +:c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports WMI devices sharing the +same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>` +which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/string.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/core.c + :export: |
