The kernel now has a number of testing and debugging tools, and we've
seen a bit of confusion about what the differences between them are.
Add a basic documentation outlining the testing tools, when to use each,
and how they interact.
This is a pretty quick overview rather than the idealised "kernel
testing guide" that'd probably be optimal, but given the number of times
questions like "When do you use KUnit and when do you use Kselftest?"
are being asked, it seemed worth at least having something. Hopefully
this can form the basis for more detailed documentation later.
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415054036.581117-1-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add new zh translations
* zh_CN/dev-tools/gcov.rst
* zh_CN/dev-tools/index.rst
and link them to zh_CN/index.rst
Signed-off-by: Bernard Zhao <bernard@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415054304.GA26689@bobwxc.top
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Make people CC the recently created mailing list dedicated to Linux
kernel regressions when reporting one. Some paragraphs had to be
reshuffled and slightly rewritten during the process, as the text
otherwise would have gotten unnecessarily hard to follow.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac28089d710d5d41f295221bc726555ba32f4984.1617967127.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sync zh translation reporting-issues.rst to
commit 58c539453b ("docs: reporting-issues: reduce quoting and assorted
fixes")
Drop reporting-bug.rst
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210413072934.GA2674@bobwxc.top
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Explain when a submitter should tag a patch or a patch series with the
"RESEND" tag.
This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
patchset by Thomas Gleixner:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de
and incorporates follow-on comments.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Remove Harry Wei and <xiyoulinuxkernelgroup@googlegroups.com> from
MAINTAINERS Chinese Translation.
According to git logs, Harry Wei (aka WeiWei Jia)
* last submitted at 2012-05-07
commit a9e73211fb ("Fix a mistake sentence in the file 'Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt'")
* last Reviewed-by at 2016-02-16
commit 45c73ea7a7 ("Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/silicon-errata.txt")
* last Signed-off-by at 2019-03-13 (pick by Alex Shi)
commit 95dcdb6e12 ("docs/zh_CN: rename magic-numbers as rst doc")
According to mail list archives, Harry Wei
* last replied at 2016-02-15
<https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAD+1EGPFdoD7HHZYfEWVvmesXXG27n=6KmEZ8=B6nrvb+oaLZA@mail.gmail.com/>
* last appeared at 2018-05-12
<https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+scX6kYH8Y9_f1PLcMHG-MD9bhXgd4gGpkJanjzvwwj9L=aOQ@mail.gmail.com/>
He/She did not maintain zh_CN translations for a long time.
<xiyoulinuxkernelgroup@googlegroups.com> is a maillist for Linux group of
Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, not special for zh_CN
translation work.
Anyway, many thanks him/her and Xiyou for their contributions to the early
Chinese translation work!
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210329151551.GA10901@mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All the files in the riscv directory have been translated into
Chinese and it is time to add them to the zh_CN index.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-9-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All the files in the iio directory have been translated into
Chinese and it is time to add them to the zh_CN index.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-8-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All the files in the mips directory have been translated into
Chinese and it is time to add them to the zh_CN index.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-7-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All the files in the cpu-freq directory have been translated into
Chinese and it is time to add them to the zh_CN index.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-6-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documention/cpu-freq/index.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-5-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documention/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-4-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documention/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-3-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documention/cpu-freq/core.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406070239.19910-2-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Htmldocs does not display the chapter number, convert the two manual
chapter number tags to ref tags.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210403113752.GA32236@mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Replace it with olddefconfig. oldnoconfig didn't do what the document
suggests (it aliased to olddefconfig), and isn't available since 4.19.
Ref: 04c459d204 ("kconfig: remove oldnoconfig target")
Ref: 312ee68752 ("kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used")
Signed-off-by: Ismael Luceno <ismael@iodev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331163541.28356-1-ismael@iodev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix kernel-doc warnings in fs/namespace.c:
./fs/namespace.c:1379: warning: Function parameter or member 'm' not described in 'may_umount_tree'
./fs/namespace.c:1379: warning: Excess function parameter 'mnt' description in 'may_umount_tree'
./fs/namespace.c:1950: warning: Function parameter or member 'path' not described in 'clone_private_mount'
Also convert path_is_mountpoint() comments to kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Allegedly-acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210318025227.4162-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Change the description parsing logic in rst mode in order
to parse it line per line.
The end result is the same, but doing line per line allows
to add some code to escape literal blocks when seeking for
cross-references.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d33cfa2e59ecf8f28d4ed7de7402468cf2168921.1616668017.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There are some issues with the regex that seeks for What:
cross references: basically, it is mis-identifying the start
and the end boundaries of the regex, which causes :ref: to
be inseerted for the wrong symbols at the wrong places.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/79a14d2518499b76931b5f29c50979987108152d.1616668017.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The parser for the symbols defined on What: doesn't cover all
chars that need to be scaped, like '{' and '}'. Change the logic
to be more generic, and ensure that the same regex will be used
on both What: and when parsing the cross-references.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/29cb56def89b508fe605bcd2ba74a4376cc08e35.1616668017.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add my kernel.org address for old email address.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1616748571-52058-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A pile of small fixes:
- don't quote terms like vanilla, mainline, and stable, unless in they
occur in places where readers new to the kernel might see them for the
first time
- make people rule out that vendor patches are interfering if they face
a regression in a stable or longterm kernel they saw in a vendor
kernel for the first time
- s/bugs/issues/ in a selected spots
- exchange two headlines that got mixed up somehow
- add a few links to some of the steps in the guide
- Greg mentioned sending reports to the stable mailing list is
sufficient, so remove the "CC stable maintainers" bits
- fix a few typos and mistakes in the text, with a few very small
improvements along the way
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/07bca15d8465b8e234537feb8841dd2ff20243bc.1617113469.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Make the TLDR a bit shorter while improving it at the same time by going
straight to the aspects readers are more interested it. The change makes
the process especially more straight-forward for people that hit a
regression in a stable or longterm kernel. Due to the changes the TLDR
now also matches the step by step guide better.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/762ccd7735315d2fdaa79612fccc1f474881118b.1617113469.git.linux@leemhuis.info
[ jc: fixed transposed _` as noted by Thorsten ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Remove the WIP and two FIXME notes in the text to make it official, as
it's now considered fully ready for consumption. To make sure this
step is okay for people the intent of this change and the latest version
of the text were posted to ksummit-discuss; nobody complained, thus
lets move ahead.
Add a footer to point out people can contact Thorsten directly in case
they find something to improve in the text.
Dear reporting-bugs.rst, I'm sorry to tell you, but that makes you fully
obsolete and we thus have to let you go now. Thank you very much for
your service, you in one form or another have been around for a long
time. I'm sure over the years you got read a lot and helped quite a few
people. But it's time to retire now. Rest in peace.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
CC: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
CC: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/49c674c2d304d87e6259063580fda05267e8c348.1617113469.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, kernel-doc start parsing the comment as a kernel-doc comment if
it starts with '/**', but does not take into account if the content inside
the comment too, adheres with the expected format.
This results in unexpected and unclear warnings for the user.
E.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none mm/memcontrol.c emits:
"mm/memcontrol.c:961: warning: expecting prototype for do not fallback to current(). Prototype was for get_mem_cgroup_from_current() instead"
Here kernel-doc parses the corresponding comment as a kernel-doc comment
and expects prototype for it in the next lines, and as a result causing
this warning.
Provide a clearer warning message to the users regarding the same, if the
content inside the comment does not follow the kernel-doc expected format.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210329092945.13152-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The previous attempt to properly handle literal blocks broke parsing of
parameter lines containing colons; fix it by tweaking the regex to
specifically exclude the "::" pattern while accepting lines containing
colons in general. Add a little documentation to the regex while in the
neighborhood.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: 8d295fbad6 ("kernel-doc: better handle '::' sequences")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Right now, if one of the following headers end with a '::', the
kernel-doc script will do the wrong thing:
description|context|returns?|notes?|examples?
The real issue is with examples, as people could try to write
something like:
example::
/* Some C code */
and this won't be properly evaluated. So, improve the regex
to not catch '\w+::' regex for the above identifiers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2cf44cf1fa42588632735d4fbc8e84304bdc235f.1616696051.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Provide a shorter and easier process for users that deal with
regressions in stable and longterm kernels, as those should be reported
quickly.
To realize this in the least-confusing way and without having steps
multiple times in different places, split the 'search for existing
reports' into two. That has the additinal benefit that users will search
for them quickly when going through the step by step guide and thus will
save them trouble if the find reports.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d934c15e536bceeff5c40a126930ddf803548e08.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
David Gow
Bernard Zhao
Thorsten Leemhuis
Federico Vaga
Wu XiangCheng
Borislav Petkov
Masanari Iida
Yanteng Si
Stéphane Blondon
Ismael Luceno
Wang Qing
Randy Dunlap
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Alex Shi
He Ying
Mark O'Donovan
Masahiro Yamada
Aditya Srivastava
Jonathan Corbet