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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst index b41b1c56477f..0d27a40f5818 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst @@ -173,10 +173,15 @@ Locking ------- The PWM core list manipulations are protected by a mutex, so pwm_get() -and pwm_put() may not be called from an atomic context. Currently the -PWM core does not enforce any locking to pwm_enable(), pwm_disable() and -pwm_config(), so the calling context is currently driver specific. This -is an issue derived from the former barebone API and should be fixed soon. +and pwm_put() may not be called from an atomic context. +Most functions in the PWM consumer API might sleep and so must not be called +from atomic context. The notable exception is pwm_apply_atomic() which has the +same semantics as pwm_apply_might_sleep() but can be called from atomic context. +(The price for that is that it doesn't work for all PWM devices, use +pwm_might_sleep() to check if a given PWM supports atomic operation. + +Locking in the PWM core ensures that callbacks related to a single chip are +serialized. Helpers ------- |