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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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+=====================================
+ drm/vc4 Broadcom VC4 Graphics Driver
+=====================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c
+ :doc: Broadcom VC4 Graphics Driver
+
+Display Hardware Handling
+=========================
+
+This section covers everything related to the display hardware including
+the mode setting infrastructure, plane, sprite and cursor handling and
+display, output probing and related topics.
+
+Pixel Valve (DRM CRTC)
+----------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_crtc.c
+ :doc: VC4 CRTC module
+
+HVS
+---
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hvs.c
+ :doc: VC4 HVS module.
+
+HVS planes
+----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_plane.c
+ :doc: VC4 plane module
+
+HDMI encoder
+------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c
+ :doc: VC4 Falcon HDMI module
+
+DSI encoder
+-----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
+ :doc: VC4 DSI0/DSI1 module
+
+DPI encoder
+-----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dpi.c
+ :doc: VC4 DPI module
+
+VEC (Composite TV out) encoder
+------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_vec.c
+ :doc: VC4 SDTV module
+
+KUnit Tests
+===========
+
+The VC4 Driver uses KUnit to perform driver-specific unit and
+integration tests.
+
+These tests are using a mock driver and can be ran using the
+command below, on either arm or arm64 architectures,
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run \
+ --kunitconfig=drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/tests/.kunitconfig \
+ --cross_compile aarch64-linux-gnu- --arch arm64
+
+Parts of the driver that are currently covered by tests are:
+ * The HVS to PixelValve dynamic FIFO assignment, for the BCM2835-7
+ and BCM2711.
+
+Memory Management and 3D Command Submission
+===========================================
+
+This section covers the GEM implementation in the vc4 driver.
+
+GPU buffer object (BO) management
+---------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_bo.c
+ :doc: VC4 GEM BO management support
+
+V3D binner command list (BCL) validation
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate.c
+ :doc: Command list validator for VC4.
+
+V3D render command list (RCL) generation
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_render_cl.c
+ :doc: Render command list generation
+
+Shader validator for VC4
+---------------------------
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c
+ :doc: Shader validator for VC4.
+
+V3D Interrupts
+--------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_irq.c
+ :doc: Interrupt management for the V3D engine