From 9cc63f8bcd560c760d0b12e15bba8f81c86237cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:43:51 -0700
Subject: 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
 HEAD

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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 Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst | 148 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+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:
+
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