[PATCH v3 00/16] timers: Cleanup delay/sleep related mess

[Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

a question about which sleeping function should be used in acpi_os_sleep()
started a discussion and examination about the existing documentation and
implementation of functions which insert a sleep/delay.

The result of the discussion was, that the documentation is outdated and
the implemented fsleep() reflects the outdated documentation but doesn't
help to reflect reality which in turns leads to the queue which covers the
following things:

- Split out all timeout and sleep related functions from hrtimer.c and timer.c
  into a separate file

- Update function descriptions of sleep related functions

- Change fsleep() to reflect reality

- Rework all comments or users which obviously rely on the outdated
  documentation as they reference "Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst"

- Update the outdated documentation and move it into a file with a self
  explaining file name (as there are no more references)

- Remove checkpatch checks which also rely on the outdated documentation

The queue is available here:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anna-maria/linux-devel.git timers/misc

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Add review remarks
- Split checkpatch patch: 1. Remove links to outdated documentation,
  2. Remove checks in checkpatch which rely on outdated documentation
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240911-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v2-0-b0d3f33ccfe0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- change udelay() and ndelay() as suggested by Thomas
- Update some formatting in the new sleep_timeout.c file
- minor typo changes and other small review remarks

Thanks,

        Anna-Maria

---
Anna-Maria Behnsen (16):
      MAINTAINERS: Add missing file include/linux/delay.h
      timers: Move *sleep*() and timeout functions into a separate file
      timers: Update schedule_[hr]timeout*() related function descriptions
      timers: Rename usleep_idle_range() to usleep_range_idle()
      timers: Update function descriptions of sleep/delay related functions
      delay: Rework udelay and ndelay
      timers: Adjust flseep() to reflect reality
      mm/damon/core: Use generic upper bound recommondation for usleep_range()
      timers: Add a warning to usleep_range_state() for wrong order of arguments
      checkpatch: Remove links to outdated documentation
      regulator: core: Use fsleep() to get best sleep mechanism
      iopoll/regmap/phy/snd: Fix comment referencing outdated timer documentation
      powerpc/rtas: Use fsleep() to minimize additional sleep duration
      media: anysee: Fix and remove outdated comment
      timers/Documentation: Cleanup delay/sleep documentation
      checkpatch: Remove broken sleep/delay related checks

 Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst         |   6 -
 Documentation/timers/delay_sleep_functions.rst | 121 ++++++++
 Documentation/timers/index.rst                 |   2 +-
 Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst          | 115 --------
 MAINTAINERS                                    |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c                     |  21 +-
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/anysee.c          |  17 +-
 drivers/regulator/core.c                       |  47 +--
 include/asm-generic/delay.h                    |  96 +++++--
 include/linux/delay.h                          |  79 ++++--
 include/linux/iopoll.h                         |  52 ++--
 include/linux/phy.h                            |   9 +-
 include/linux/regmap.h                         |  38 +--
 kernel/time/Makefile                           |   2 +-
 kernel/time/hrtimer.c                          | 120 --------
 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c                    | 377 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/time/timer.c                            | 192 -------------
 mm/damon/core.c                                |   5 +-
 scripts/checkpatch.pl                          |  38 ---
 sound/soc/sof/ops.h                            |   8 +-
 20 files changed, 704 insertions(+), 643 deletions(-)