but a few significant changes even so:
- A complete rewriting of the top-level index.rst file, which mostly
reflects itself in a redone top page in the HTML-rendered docs. The hope
is that the new organization will be a friendlier starting point for
both users and developers.
- Some math-rendering improvements.
- A coding-style.rst update on the use of BUG() and WARN()
- A big maintainer-PHP guide update.
- Some code-of-conduct updates
- More Chinese translation work
Plus the usual pile of typo fixes, corrections, and updates.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"There's not a huge amount of activity in the docs tree this time
around, but a few significant changes even so:
- A complete rewriting of the top-level index.rst file, which mostly
reflects itself in a redone top page in the HTML-rendered docs. The
hope is that the new organization will be a friendlier starting
point for both users and developers.
- Some math-rendering improvements.
- A coding-style.rst update on the use of BUG() and WARN()
- A big maintainer-PHP guide update.
- Some code-of-conduct updates
- More Chinese translation work
Plus the usual pile of typo fixes, corrections, and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (66 commits)
checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants
coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules ("do not crash the kernel")
Documentation: devres: add missing IO helper
Documentation: devres: update IRQ helper
Documentation/mm: modify page_referenced to folio_referenced
Documentation/CoC: Reflect current CoC interpretation and practices
docs/doc-guide: Add documentation on SPHINX_IMGMATH
docs: process/5.Posting.rst: clarify use of Reported-by: tag
docs, kprobes: Fix the wrong location of Kprobes
docs: add a man-pages link to the front page
docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book
docs: move asm-annotations.rst into core-api
docs: remove some index.rst cruft
docs: reconfigure the HTML left column
docs: Rewrite the front page
docs: promote the title of process/index.rst
Documentation: devres: add missing SPI helper
Documentation: devres: add missing PINCTRL helpers
docs: hugetlbpage.rst: fix a typo of hugepage size
docs/zh_CN: Add new translation of admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
...
The checklist.rst document advises periodic synchronize_rcu() invocations
to prevent callback flooding. However, rcu_barrier() is often a better
choice. This commit therefore adds words to this effect.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The current checklist.rst file correctly notes that RCU callbacks execute
in BH context, and cannot block. This commit adds words advising people
needing callbacks to block to use workqueues, for example, by replacing
call_rcu() with queue_rcu_work().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit updates checklist.rst to emphasize the need for explicit
markers for RCU read-side critical sections.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The RCU documentation contains old-style cross references which
do not follow the best practices outlined in doc-guide/sphinx.rst.
In addition, some of the cross references use URLs that should be replaced
by pathnames.
Update all of these cross references and adjust the surrounding words.
Summary of changes:
- out-of-date plaintext file names (*.txt) -> *.rst
- references by :ref: tags -> path names of *.rst
* use relative paths to .rst files under the RCU/ subdirectory
* use abs paths of Documentation/xxx for other .rst files
- references by URL under https://www.kernel.org/ -> paths of *.rst
- adjust surrounding words of some of updated references.
Note:
The automarkup.py script interprets references via "*.txt" as if they
were via "*.rst", so the *.txt -> *.rst changes should be regarded as
cleanups rather than bug fixes.
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
"-foo-" does not work as emphasis in ReST markdown.
Use "*foo*" instead.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit gives an example of non-obvious RCU reader/updater pairing
in the guise of the XDP feature in networking, which calls BPF programs
from network-driver NAPI (softirq) context.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-4-toke@redhat.com
This commit clarifies which primitives readers can use given that the
corresponding updaters have made a specific choice. This commit also adds
this information for the various RCU Tasks flavors. While in the area, it
removes a paragraph that no longer applies in any straightforward manner.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-3-toke@redhat.com
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.
Update the documents and mention CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Spell out
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT (instead PREEMPT_RT) since it is an option now.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
It appears the Compaq link moved to a machine at HP for a while
after the merger of the two, but that doesn't work either. A search
of HP for "wiz_2637" (w and w/o html suffix) comes up empty.
Since the references aren't critical to the documents we remove them.
Also, the lkml.kernel.org/g links have been broken for ages, so replace
them with lore.kernel.org/r links - standardize on lore for all links too.
Note that we put off fixing these 4y ago - presumably thinking that a
treewide fixup was pending. Probably safe to go fix the RCU ones now.
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20160915144926.GD10850@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds an explanation of the special cases where READ_ONCE()
may be used in place of a member of the rcu_dereference() family.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Use the right list markups;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Paul E. McKenney
Linus Torvalds
Akhil Raj
Akira Yokosawa
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Paul Gortmaker
Mauro Carvalho Chehab