Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst was orignally written as
a blog post for DRM driver writers, so it it misses some points while
going into a lot of detail on others.
Try to provide a replacement that addresses typical issues across a wider
range of subsystems, and follows the style of the core-api documentation
better.
Many improvements to the document are suggested by Ben Hutchings
<ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> and
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>.
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
We discussed a better location for this file, and agreed that
core-api/ is a good fit. Rename it to symbol-namespaces.rst
for disambiguation, and also add it to index.rst and MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
The genindex logic is meant to be used only for html output, as
pdf build has its own way to generate indexes.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> # dmaengine and soundwire
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The packing.txt file was misplaced, as docs should be part of
a documentation book, and not at the root dir.
So, move it to the core-api directory and add to its index.
Also, ensure that the file will be properly parsed and the bitmap
ascii artwork will use a monotonic font.
Fixes: 554aae3500 ("lib: Add support for generic packing operations")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The gcc_plugins.txt file is already a ReST file. Move it
to the core-api book while renaming it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
This document is used by multiple architectures:
$ echo $(git grep -l pkey_mprotect arch|cut -d'/' -f 2|sort|uniq)
alpha arm arm64 ia64 m68k microblaze mips parisc powerpc s390 sh sparc x86 xtensa
So, let's move it to the core book and adjust the links to it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Very simple radix tree implementation that supports storing arbitrary
size entries, up to PAGE_SIZE - upcoming patches will convert existing
flex_array users to genradixes. The new genradix code has a much
simpler API and implementation, and doesn't have a hard limit on the
number of elements like flex_array does.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181217131929.11727-5-kent.overstreet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull XArray conversion from Matthew Wilcox:
"The XArray provides an improved interface to the radix tree data
structure, providing locking as part of the API, specifying GFP flags
at allocation time, eliminating preloading, less re-walking the tree,
more efficient iterations and not exposing RCU-protected pointers to
its users.
This patch set
1. Introduces the XArray implementation
2. Converts the pagecache to use it
3. Converts memremap to use it
The page cache is the most complex and important user of the radix
tree, so converting it was most important. Converting the memremap
code removes the only other user of the multiorder code, which allows
us to remove the radix tree code that supported it.
I have 40+ followup patches to convert many other users of the radix
tree over to the XArray, but I'd like to get this part in first. The
other conversions haven't been in linux-next and aren't suitable for
applying yet, but you can see them in the xarray-conv branch if you're
interested"
* 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (90 commits)
radix tree: Remove multiorder support
radix tree test: Convert multiorder tests to XArray
radix tree tests: Convert item_delete_rcu to XArray
radix tree tests: Convert item_kill_tree to XArray
radix tree tests: Move item_insert_order
radix tree test suite: Remove multiorder benchmarking
radix tree test suite: Remove __item_insert
memremap: Convert to XArray
xarray: Add range store functionality
xarray: Move multiorder_check to in-kernel tests
xarray: Move multiorder_shrink to kernel tests
xarray: Move multiorder account test in-kernel
radix tree test suite: Convert iteration test to XArray
radix tree test suite: Convert tag_tagged_items to XArray
radix tree: Remove radix_tree_clear_tags
radix tree: Remove radix_tree_maybe_preload_order
radix tree: Remove split/join code
radix tree: Remove radix_tree_update_node_t
page cache: Finish XArray conversion
dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray
...
This is documentation on how to use the XArray, not details about its
internal implementation.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
to allow additions of new documentation about memory hotplug under the same
roof.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The memory hotplug notifier description is about kernel internals rather
than admin/user visible API. Place it appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is basically copy-paste of the memory management section from
kernel-api.rst with some minor adjustments:
* The "User Space Memory Access" is moved to the beginning
* The get_user_pages_fast reference is now a part of "User Space Memory
Access"
* And, of course, headings are adjusted with section being promoted to
chapters
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-6-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This contains a set of early-boot memory-management docs from Mike
Rapoport. It's been circulating on linux-mm for a long time; I finally
picked it up even though it changes a lot of .c files under mm/ (comments
only).
Both bootmem and memblock are have pretty good internal documentation
coverage. With addition of some overview we get a nice description of the
early memory management.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
As Dave Chinner points out, we don't have a proper documentation for the
ktime_get() family of interfaces, making it rather unclear which of the
over 30 (!) interfaces one should actually use in a driver or elsewhere
in the kernel.
I wrote up an explanation from how I personally see the interfaces,
documenting what each of the functions do and hopefully making it a bit
clearer which should be used where.
This is the first time I tried writing .rst format documentation, so
in addition to any mistakes in the content, I probably also introduce
nonstandard formatting ;-)
I first tried to add an extra section to
Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt, but this is currently not included
in the generated API, and it seems useful to have the API docs as part
of what gets generated in
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/index.html#core-utilities
instead, so I started a new file there.
I also considered adding the documentation inline in the
include/linux/timekeeping.h header, but couldn't figure out how to do
that in a way that would result both in helpful inline comments as
well as readable html output, so I settled for the latter, with
a small note pointing to it from the header.
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Although the api is documented in the source code Ted has pointed out
that there is no mention in the core-api Documentation and there are
people looking there to find answers how to use a specific API.
Requested-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The circular-buffers.txt is already in ReST format. So, move it to the
core-api guide, where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The cachetlb.txt is already in ReST format. So, move it to the
core-api guide, where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move the idr kernel-doc to its own idr.rst file and add a few
paragraphs about how to use it. Also add some more kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
- Move errseq.rst into core-api
- Add errseq to the core-api index
- Promote the header to a more prominent header type, otherwise we get three
entries in the table of contents.
- Reformat the table to look nicer and be a little more proportional in
terms of horizontal width per bit (the SF bit is still disproportionately
large, but there's no way to fix that).
- Include errseq kernel-doc in the errseq.rst
- Neaten some kernel-doc markup
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/printk-formats.txt is a candidate for conversion to
ReStructuredText format. Some effort has already been made to do this
conversion even thought the suffix is currently .txt
Changes required to complete conversion
- Move printk-formats.txt to core-api/printk-formats.rst
- Add entry to Documentation/core-api/index.rst
- Remove entry from Documentation/00-INDEX
- Fix minor grammatical errors.
- Order heading adornments as suggested by rst docs.
- Use 'Passed by reference' uniformly.
- Update pointer documentation around %px specifier.
- Fix erroneous double backticks (to commas).
- Remove extraneous double backticks (suggested by Jonathan Corbet).
- Simplify documentation for kobject.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
[jc: downcased "kernel"]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different
memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts.
This adds a document outlining these differences (
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as
some other minor improvements.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Genalloc/genpool has kerneldoc comments, but nothing has ever been pulled
into the docs themselves. Here's a first attempt, repurposed from an
article I wrote at https://lwn.net/Articles/729653/.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Brainless conversion of genericirq.tmpl book to ReST, via
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Brainless conversion of genericirq.tmpl book to ReST, via
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt
Copyright information inserted manually.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The current CPU hotplug is outdated. During the update to what we
currently have I rewrote it partly and moved to sphinx format.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert the tracepoint docbook template to RST and add it to the core-api
manual. No changes to the actual text beyond the mechanical formatting
conversion.
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A couple of the most minor heading tweaks, otherwise no changes to the text
itself beyond the mechanical conversion.
Note that the inclusion of the kerneldoc comments from the source has never
worked, since exported symbols were asked for and none of those functions
are exported to modules. It doesn't work here either :)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
