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Documentation/00-index: update for new core-api folder Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:14:10 +02:00
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doc: Convert the debugobjects DocBook template to sphinx 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>
2016-11-18 17:06:13 -07:00
Core API Documentation
Documentation/00-index: update for new core-api folder Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:14:10 +02:00
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doc: Convert the debugobjects DocBook template to sphinx 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>
2016-11-18 17:06:13 -07:00
This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs. The conversion
(and writing!) of documents for this manual is much appreciated!
Core utilities
==============
Documentation/00-index: update for new core-api folder Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:14:10 +02:00
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
kernel-api.tmpl: convert it to ReST 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>
2017-03-30 17:11:32 -03:00
kernel-api
Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup ... and move to Documentation/core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-28 18:30:53 +01:00
assoc_array
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup ... and move to core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-28 18:30:55 +01:00
atomic_ops
docs: core-api: add cachetlb documentation 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>
2018-05-07 06:35:41 -03:00
cachetlb
docs: refcount_t documentation 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>
2017-12-05 12:46:35 +02:00
refcount-vs-atomic
Documentation: Update CPU hotplug and move it to core-api 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>
2016-12-22 17:19:34 +01:00
cpu_hotplug
idr: Add documentation 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>
2018-02-06 15:05:49 -05:00
idr
Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup ... and move to core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-28 18:30:54 +01:00
local_ops
Documentation/workqueue.txt: convert to ReST markup ... and move to Documentation/core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:14:11 +02:00
workqueue
genericirq.tmpl: convert it to ReST 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>
2017-03-30 17:11:30 -03:00
genericirq
xarray: Add documentation 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>
2017-11-23 22:57:20 -05:00
xarray
docs-rst: convert librs book to ReST Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-13 07:07:47 -03:00
librs
doc: Add documentation for the genalloc subsystem 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>
2017-08-24 14:27:05 -06:00
genalloc
errseq: Add to documentation tree - 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>
2017-12-22 06:32:16 -08:00
errseq
docs: packing: move it to core-api book and adjust markups 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: 554aae35007e ("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>
2019-07-26 09:51:20 -03:00
packing
doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst 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>
2017-12-20 08:17:15 +11:00
printk-formats
docs: core-api: add circular-buffers documentation 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>
2018-05-07 06:35:43 -03:00
circular-buffers
generic radix trees 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>
2019-03-11 23:31:14 -07:00
generic-radix-tree
docs: core-api: add memory allocation guide 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>
2018-09-14 12:27:58 +03:00
memory-allocation
docs/core-api: split memory management API to a separate file 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>
2018-08-23 17:01:12 -07:00
mm-api
mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages*() and FOLL_PIN Introduce pin_user_pages*() variations of get_user_pages*() calls, and also pin_longterm_pages*() variations. For now, these are placeholder calls, until the various call sites are converted to use the correct get_user_pages*() or pin_user_pages*() API. These variants will eventually all set FOLL_PIN, which is also introduced, and thoroughly documented. pin_user_pages() pin_user_pages_remote() pin_user_pages_fast() All pages that are pinned via the above calls, must be unpinned via put_user_page(). The underlying rules are: * FOLL_PIN is a gup-internal flag, so the call sites should not directly set it. That behavior is enforced with assertions. * Call sites that want to indicate that they are going to do DirectIO ("DIO") or something with similar characteristics, should call a get_user_pages()-like wrapper call that sets FOLL_PIN. These wrappers will: * Start with "pin_user_pages" instead of "get_user_pages". That makes it easy to find and audit the call sites. * Set FOLL_PIN * For pages that are received via FOLL_PIN, those pages must be returned via put_user_page(). Thanks to Jan Kara and Vlastimil Babka for explaining the 4 cases in this documentation. (I've reworded it and expanded upon it.) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107224558.2362728-12-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> [Documentation] Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-01-30 22:12:54 -08:00
pin_user_pages
doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs 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>
2018-05-29 10:26:44 +02:00
gfp_mask-from-fs-io
Documentation: document ktime_get_*() APIs 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>
2018-07-10 16:46:41 +02:00
timekeeping
docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management 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>
2018-06-30 17:55:06 +03:00
boot-time-mm
docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug 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>
2018-10-11 07:58:16 +03:00
memory-hotplug
docs: move protection-keys.rst to the core-api book 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>
2019-06-07 15:54:31 -03:00
protection-keys
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual We should really move the RCU directory there as well, but that can wait for another day. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-27 08:35:26 -06:00
../RCU/index
docs: move gcc_plugins.txt to core-api and rename to .rst 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>
2019-04-19 19:01:18 -03:00
gcc-plugins
doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/ 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>
2019-10-08 12:10:09 +09:00
symbol-namespaces
padata: update documentation Remove references to unused functions, standardize language, update to reflect new functionality, migrate to rst format, and fix all kernel-doc warnings. Fixes: 815613da6a67 ("kernel/padata.c: removed unused code") Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2019-12-03 14:31:14 -05:00
padata
Documentation: document ioctl interfaces better 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>
2019-12-03 10:57:23 +01:00
ioctl
docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api 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>
2018-10-05 01:11:01 +03:00
Documentation/workqueue.txt: convert to ReST markup ... and move to Documentation/core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:14:11 +02:00
doc: Convert the debugobjects DocBook template to sphinx 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>
2016-11-18 17:06:13 -07:00
Interfaces for kernel debugging
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
doc: Sphinxify the tracepoint docbook 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>
2016-11-18 17:21:32 -07:00
debug-objects
tracepoint
doc: Convert the debugobjects DocBook template to sphinx 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>
2016-11-18 17:06:13 -07:00
docs: index.rst: don't use genindex for pdf output 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>
2019-07-26 09:51:29 -03:00
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Documentation/00-index: update for new core-api folder Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:14:10 +02:00
Indices
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* :ref:`genindex`
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