linux-toradex.git/Documentation/core-api/index.rst, branch v5.19-rc3 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Merge tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2022-05-25T18:17:41+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2022-05-25T18:17:41+00:00 88a618920e9baabc1780479e2fbb68e5551d0563 Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It was a moderately busy cycle for documentation; highlights include: - After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are seeing some much-needed maintenance and updating. - Reworked IOMMU documentation - Some new documentation for static-analysis tools - A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation. This is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage developers to fill in the many gaps. Optimism is eternal...but hopefully it will work. - More Chinese translations. Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc" * tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (70 commits) docs: pdfdocs: Add space for chapter counts >= 100 in TOC docs/zh_CN: Add dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst Chinese translation input: Docs: correct ntrig.rst typo input: Docs: correct atarikbd.rst typos MAINTAINERS: Become the docs/zh_CN maintainer docs/zh_CN: fix devicetree usage-model translation mm,doc: Add new documentation structure Documentation: drop more IDE boot options and ide-cd.rst Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches MAINTAINERS: Add entry for DOCUMENTATION/JAPANESE docs/trans/ja_JP/howto: Don't mention specific kernel versions docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Add Suggested-by as a standard signature docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Randy has moved docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Suggest the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Update GregKH links Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic Documentation: add missing angle bracket in cgroup-v2 doc Documentation: dev-tools: use literal block instead of code-block docs/zh_CN: add vm numa translation ... 
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It was a moderately busy cycle for documentation; highlights include:

   - After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are
     seeing some much-needed maintenance and updating.

   - Reworked IOMMU documentation

   - Some new documentation for static-analysis tools

   - A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation.
     This is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage
     developers to fill in the many gaps. Optimism is eternal...but
     hopefully it will work.

   - More Chinese translations.

  Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (70 commits)
  docs: pdfdocs: Add space for chapter counts >= 100 in TOC
  docs/zh_CN: Add dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst Chinese translation
  input: Docs: correct ntrig.rst typo
  input: Docs: correct atarikbd.rst typos
  MAINTAINERS: Become the docs/zh_CN maintainer
  docs/zh_CN: fix devicetree usage-model translation
  mm,doc: Add new documentation structure
  Documentation: drop more IDE boot options and ide-cd.rst
  Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for DOCUMENTATION/JAPANESE
  docs/trans/ja_JP/howto: Don't mention specific kernel versions
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Add Suggested-by as a standard signature
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Randy has moved
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Suggest the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Update GregKH links
  Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
  Documentation: add missing angle bracket in cgroup-v2 doc
  Documentation: dev-tools: use literal block instead of code-block
  docs/zh_CN: add vm numa translation
  ...
Documentation: move watch_queue to core-api 2022-04-22T15:47:25+00:00 Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org 2022-04-19T02:54:16+00:00 f5461124d59bfb62bd9e231ee64cbaf757343ad5 Move watch_queue documentation to the core-api index and subdirectory. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Move watch_queue documentation to the core-api index and
subdirectory.

Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
printk/index: Printk index feature documentation 2022-04-13T12:25:31+00:00 Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com 2022-04-05T11:48:29+00:00 a5c7a39f508ae1fd3288493b96dd26079bae41bf Document the printk index feature. The primary motivation is to explain that it is not creating KABI from particular printk() calls. Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> 
Document the printk index feature. The primary motivation is to
explain that it is not creating KABI from particular printk() calls.

Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Documentation: Fill the gaps about entry/noinstr constraints 2022-01-27T18:32:40+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2022-01-10T10:50:43+00:00 bf026e2e316ba57135b70e8ce591276239c7b2cf The entry/exit handling for exceptions, interrupts, syscalls and KVM is not really documented except for some comments. Fill the gaps. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de Co-developed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> ---- Changes since v3: - s/nointr/noinstr/ Changes since v2: - No big content changes, just style corrections, so it should be pretty clean at this stage. In the light of this, I kept Mark's Reviewed-by. - Paul's style and paragraph re-writes - Randy's style comments - Add links to transition type sections Documentation/core-api/entry.rst | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 8 + 2 files changed, 269 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/entry.rst Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220110105044.94423-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
The entry/exit handling for exceptions, interrupts, syscalls and KVM is
not really documented except for some comments.

Fill the gaps.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
Co-developed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

----

Changes since v3:
 - s/nointr/noinstr/

Changes since v2:
 - No big content changes, just style corrections, so it should be
   pretty clean at this stage. In the light of this, I kept Mark's
   Reviewed-by.
 - Paul's style and paragraph re-writes
 - Randy's style comments
 - Add links to transition type sections

Documentation/core-api/entry.rst | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/core-api/index.rst |   8 +
 2 files changed, 269 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/entry.rst

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220110105044.94423-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
docs: core-api: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup 2021-06-17T19:24:37+00:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org 2021-06-16T06:27:23+00:00 a822b2ee266587c3665c471f0de86a3ccbc280b1 The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py. So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d967d490b6655735b7df292f88859b5a1b07d0d7.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d967d490b6655735b7df292f88859b5a1b07d0d7.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
atomic: remove further references to atomic_ops 2020-12-31T22:51:33+00:00 Lukas Bulwahn lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com 2020-12-20T06:09:27+00:00 798ed7800e20dfc3304de1b99df5ac71ad48966b Commit f0400a77ebdc ("atomic: Delete obsolete documentation") removed ./Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst, but missed to remove further references to that file. Hence, make htmldocs warns: Documentation/core-api/index.rst:53: WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexisting document 'core-api/atomic_ops' Also, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns warns: warning: no file matches F: Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst Remove further references to ./Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst. Fixes: f0400a77ebdc ("atomic: Delete obsolete documentation") Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201220060927.21582-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Commit f0400a77ebdc ("atomic: Delete obsolete documentation") removed
./Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst, but missed to remove further
references to that file.

Hence, make htmldocs warns:

  Documentation/core-api/index.rst:53: WARNING:
  toctree contains reference to nonexisting document 'core-api/atomic_ops'

Also, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns warns:

  warning: no file matches    F:    Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst

Remove further references to ./Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst.

Fixes: f0400a77ebdc ("atomic: Delete obsolete documentation")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201220060927.21582-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
docs: move other kAPI documents to core-api 2020-06-26T17:33:42+00:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org 2020-06-23T13:31:38+00:00 c9b54d6f362c0846a11fedea20ec8b8da9b4c93d There are a number of random documents that seem to be describing some aspects of the core-api. Move them to such directory, adding them at the core-api/index.rst file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86d979ed183adb76af93a92f20189bccf97f0055.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
There are a number of random documents that seem to be
describing some aspects of the core-api. Move them to such
directory, adding them at the core-api/index.rst file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86d979ed183adb76af93a92f20189bccf97f0055.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book 2020-05-15T18:02:19+00:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org 2020-05-01T15:37:52+00:00 1ac00669c35e02c3ce3a5f7c02e65ac6edca6595 This document covers core kernel objects. So, add it into the core-api book. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f385af13b4a6d3ff8c89beedd4506900e79ca72e.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
This document covers core kernel objects. So, add it into the core-api
book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f385af13b4a6d3ff8c89beedd4506900e79ca72e.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book 2020-05-15T18:00:56+00:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org 2020-05-01T15:37:51+00:00 e00b0ab86c79c4e82eb821ac6d6a3daef2e3e600 There are 4 IRQ documentation files under Documentation/*.txt. Move them into a new directory (core-api/irq) and add a new index file for it. While here, use a title markup for the Debugging section of the irq-domain.rst file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2da7485c3718e1442e6b4c2dd66857b776e8899b.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
There are 4 IRQ documentation files under Documentation/*.txt.

Move them into a new directory (core-api/irq) and add a new
index file for it.

While here, use a title markup for the Debugging section of the
irq-domain.rst file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2da7485c3718e1442e6b4c2dd66857b776e8899b.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book 2020-05-15T17:59:17+00:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org 2020-05-01T15:37:50+00:00 a74e2a226452ea75d26b1f83860bff91a11da1ac There is an special chapter inside the core-api book about some debug infrastructure like tracepoints and debug objects. It sounded to me that this is the best place to add a chapter explaining how to use a FireWire controller to do remote kernel debugging, as explained on this document. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9b489d36d08ad89d3ad5aefef1f52a0715b29716.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
There is an special chapter inside the core-api book about
some debug infrastructure like tracepoints and debug objects.

It sounded to me that this is the best place to add a chapter
explaining how to use a FireWire controller to do remote
kernel debugging, as explained on this document.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9b489d36d08ad89d3ad5aefef1f52a0715b29716.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>