Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for timers, timekeeping and drivers:
Core:
- The timer_shutdown[_sync]() infrastructure:
Tearing down timers can be tedious when there are circular
dependencies to other things which need to be torn down. A prime
example is timer and workqueue where the timer schedules work and
the work arms the timer.
What needs to prevented is that pending work which is drained via
destroy_workqueue() does not rearm the previously shutdown timer.
Nothing in that shutdown sequence relies on the timer being
functional.
The conclusion was that the semantics of timer_shutdown_sync()
should be:
- timer is not enqueued
- timer callback is not running
- timer cannot be rearmed
Preventing the rearming of shutdown timers is done by discarding
rearm attempts silently.
A warning for the case that a rearm attempt of a shutdown timer is
detected would not be really helpful because it's entirely unclear
how it should be acted upon. The only way to address such a case is
to add 'if (in_shutdown)' conditionals all over the place. This is
error prone and in most cases of teardown not required all.
- The real fix for the bluetooth HCI teardown based on
timer_shutdown_sync().
A larger scale conversion to timer_shutdown_sync() is work in
progress.
- Consolidation of VDSO time namespace helper functions
- Small fixes for timer and timerqueue
Drivers:
- Prevent integer overflow on the XGene-1 TVAL register which causes
an never ending interrupt storm.
- The usual set of new device tree bindings
- Small fixes and improvements all over the place"
* tag 'timers-core-2022-12-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
dt-bindings: timer: renesas,cmt: Add r8a779g0 CMT support
dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add r8a779g0 support
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix missing clk_disable_unprepare in dmtimer_systimer_init_clock()
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Clear settings on probe and free
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make timer_get_irq static
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix warning for omap_timer_match
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix XGene-1 TVAL register math error
clocksource/drivers/timer-npcm7xx: Enable timer 1 clock before use
dt-bindings: timer: nuvoton,npcm7xx-timer: Allow specifying all clocks
dt-bindings: timer: rockchip: Add rockchip,rk3128-timer
clockevents: Repair kernel-doc for clockevent_delta2ns()
clocksource/drivers/ingenic-ost: Define pm functions properly in platform_driver struct
clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Access registers according to spec
vdso/timens: Refactor copy-pasted find_timens_vvar_page() helper into one copy
Bluetooth: hci_qca: Fix the teardown problem for real
timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API
timers: Provide timer_shutdown[_sync]()
timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions
timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to prepare for shutdown mode
...
del_timer_sync() does not return the number of times it tried to delete the
timer which rearms itself. It's clearly documented:
The function returns whether it has deactivated a pending timer or not.
This part of the documentation is from 2003 where del_timer_sync() really
returned the number of deletion attempts for unknown reasons. The code
was rewritten in 2005, but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.452282769@linutronix.de
Commit 31b24bee33 ("docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst")
in October 2016 already warns "This (...) should maybe just be deleted,
but I'm not quite ready to do that yet".
Maybe, six years ago, we were not ready but let us remove old content
for the better now and structure and maintain less content in the kernel
documentation with a better result.
Drop this already outdated document and adjust all textual references.
Here is an argument why deleting the content will not remove any useful
information to the existing kernel documentation, individually broken down
for each section.
Section "Allocating Device Numbers" refers to https://www.lanana.org/, and
then refers to Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst.
However, the devices.rst clearly states:
"The version of this document at lanana.org is no longer maintained."
Everything needed for submitting drivers is already stated in devices.rst
and the reference to https://www.lanana.org/ is outdated, and should be
just deleted.
Section "Who To Submit Drivers To" is all about Linux 2.0 - 2.6, before
the new release version scheme; the mentioned developers are still around,
but actually not the first developers to contact anymore.
Section "What Criteria Determine Acceptance" has a few bullet points:
Licensing and Copyright is well-covered in process/kernel-license.rst.
Interfaces, Code, Portability, Clarity state some obvious things about
ensuring kernel code quality.
Control suggests to add a MAINTAINERS entry, which is already mentioned in
6.Followthrough.rst: "... added yourself to the MAINTAINERS file..."
PM support states a bit about implementing and testing power management of
a driver, it remains an open question where to place that in the process
documents. Driver developers interested in power management will find the
corresponding part on power management in the kernel documentation anyway.
In section "What Criteria Do Not Determine Acceptance", the points Vendor
and Author states something basic consequence of the kernel being an
open-source community software development. Probably no need to mention it
nowadays.
Section "Resources" lists resources that are also mentioned elsewhere more
central.
- Linux kernel tree and mailing list is mentioned in many places.
- https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ is mentioned in
Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst.
- https://lwn.net/ is mentioned in:
- Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst
- Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
- https://kernelnewbies.org/ is mentioned in:
- Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst
- Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
- http://www.linux-usb.org/ is mentioned in
Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb.rst
- https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
is mentioned in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
- https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors is mentioned in
Documentation/process/howto.rst
- https://git-scm.com/ is mentioned in
- Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
- Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst
- Documentation/process/howto.rst
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-7-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Rusty's kernel-hacking guides provide important information, however
they are written in a narrative style that some readers may interpret as
off-putting. Since the goal is to make kernel documentation accessible
to as many new developers as possible, it's best to avoid the turns of
phrase that require a specific cultural context to properly understand.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
During the process of converting the documentation to reST, some links
were converted using the following wrong syntax (and sometimes using %20
instead of spaces):
`Display text <#section-name-in-html>`__
This syntax isn't valid according to the docutils' spec [1], but more
importantly, it is specific to HTML, since it uses '#' to link to an
HTML anchor.
The right syntax would instead use a docutils hyperlink reference as the
embedded URI to point to the section [2], that is:
`Display text <Section Name_>`__
This syntax works in both HTML and PDF.
The LaTeX toolchain doesn't mind the HTML anchor syntax when generating
the pdf documentation (make pdfdocs), that is, the build succeeds but
the links don't work, but that syntax causes errors when trying to build
using the not-yet-merged rst2pdf:
ValueError: format not resolved, probably missing URL scheme or undefined destination target for 'Forcing%20Quiescent%20States'
So, use the correct syntax in order to have it work in all different
output formats.
[1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#reference-names
[2]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#embedded-uris-and-aliases
Fixes: ccc9971e21 ("docs: rcu: convert some articles from html to ReST")
Fixes: c8cce10a62 ("docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst")
Fixes: e548cdeffc ("docs-rst: convert kernel-locking to ReST")
Fixes: 7ddedebb03 ("ALSA: doc: ReSTize writing-an-alsa-driver document")
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201228144537.135353-1-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Changeset 58ad30cf91 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each
document title, plus to each chapter inside it.
There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections
with the same name anymore.
A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to
avoid most creating references for every single section title,
but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside
a document.
There are a few places where there are two chapters with the
same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to
avoid symbol conflict within the same document.
PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend
(Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches"
for this document:
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst
Fixes: 58ad30cf91 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix a couple of dangling links to core-api/namespaces.rst by turning them
into proper references. Enable the autosection extension (available since
Sphinx 1.4) to make this work.
Co-developed-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Fixes: fcfacb9f83 ("doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch fixes the following documentation build warning:
Warning: Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst references
a file that doesn't exist: Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst
According to the following patch:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11178727/
(doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/)
The file namespaces.rst was moved from kbuild to core-api
and renamed to symbol-namespaces.rst.
Therefore, this patch changes the reference to the document
kbuild/namespaces.rst in hacking.rst to
core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204104554.9100-1-madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Describe using Symbol Namespaces from a perspective of a user. I.e.
module authors or subsystem maintainers.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can
remove those extra conf.py files.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the
kernel development book where it belongs.
Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly
parse the text file, as they're already in good shape,
not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
