There are behavioural requirements on the seq_file next() function in
terms of how it updates *pos at end-of-file, and these are now enforced
by a warning.
I was recently attempting to justify the reason this was needed, and
couldn't remember the details, and didn't find them in the
documentation.
So I re-read the code until I understood it again, and updated the
documentation to match.
I also enhanced the text about SEQ_START_TOKEN as it seemed potentially
misleading.
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87eemqiazh.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The command-line parameters "dyndbg" and "async_probe" are not
parameters for kernel/module.c but instead they are for the
module that is being loaded. Try to make that distinction in the
help text.
OTOH, "module.sig_enforce" is handled as a parameter of kernel/module.c
so "module." is correct for it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/67d40b6d-c073-a3bf-cbb6-6cad941cceeb@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
nommu-mmap.rst was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm; this patch
updates the remaining stale references to Documentation/mm.
Fixes: 800c02f5d0 ("docs: move nommu-mmap.txt to admin-guide and rename to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812092230.27541-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:
* the list of files is now the table of contents;
* links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
* all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
them;
* document vsyscall32.
Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917072123.8847-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In commit 50145474f6 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer present,remove the scrollback option.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/799e4d6ecca9aab53e823fc0001887d728be0aa5.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In commit 50145474f6 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer present i.e remove a stanza related to scrollback.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7e3e91ca0282d7e33a29476e51c1dd75aa1675f.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In commit 50145474f6 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer pressent, and removed the particular scrollback option.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e5187e70faf8237825a142313802983a6c214baa.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In commit 50145474f6 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer present, and update the section numbering because of the
removal.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/436cc046a8ff9cf2a467b633527db77dc7c7de19.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The new HowTo migrates the portions of the old howto which
are still relevant to a new document, updates them to linux 5.x
and adds documentation for vector transports and other new
features.
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917103557.26063-1-anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reformat "lapic=" to try to make it more understandable and similar
to the style that is mostly used in this file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054739.2523-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
CMA only depends on MMU. It doesn't depend on arch too much. such as ARM,
ARM64, X86, MIPS etc. so We remove the dependency of cma about the
architecture in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1600412758-60545-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Since crash utility has been moved to github, the original URL is no
longer available. Let's update it accordingly.
Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a088bff5-1174-25fa-ac26-6e46795f4085@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
For the "machtype" boot parameter,
fix word spacing, line wrap, and plural of "laptops".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c9059e35-188d-a749-1907-767b53479328@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix capitalization in two headings, correct one verb, and
demote one heading to a section heading.
Fixes: 791a17ee19 ("docs: filesystems: convert mount_api.txt to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/adaf123c-b394-f78c-53c0-671d7fda45e7@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add document entry for kvm_cma_resv_ratio kernel param which
is used to alter the KVM contiguous memory allocation percentage
for hash pagetable allocation used by hash mode PowerPC KVM guests.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200921090220.14981-1-sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:
* the list of files is now the table of contents;
* links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
* all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
them;
* document vsyscall32.
Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911190152.29730-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subroutine dump_struct uses type attributes to check if the struct
syntax is valid. Then, it removes all attributes before using it for
output. `____cacheline_aligned` is an attribute that is
not included in both steps. Add it, since it is used by kernel structs.
Based on previous patch to add ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.
Motivated by patches to reorder this attribute to before the
variable name. Whilst we could do that in all cases, that would
be a massive change and it is more common in the kernel to place
this particular attribute after the variable name. A quick grep
suggests approximately 400 instances of which 341 have this
attribute just before a semicolon and hence after the variable name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200910185415.653139-1-jic23@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The migrate_vma_setup(), migrate_vma_pages(), and migrate_vma_finalize()
API usage by device drivers is not well documented.
Add a description for how device drivers are expected to use it.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909212956.20104-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Document the notes file in sysfs as the running vmlinux's .note section
in binary format. Hopefully this helps someone like me realize the
kernel exposes the note section in sysfs in the future. Take the date
from when the file was introduced. It's been a while so presumably this
is stable and not testing material.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909063752.931283-1-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The syntax to cross-reference between documentation pages wasn't
documented anywhere.
Document the cross-referencing using the new automarkup for
Documentation/... and also Sphinx's doc directive for using relative
paths.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-4-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cross-referencing to other documentation pages is possible using the
:doc:`doc-file` directive from Sphinx.
Add automatic markup for references to other documentation pages in the
format Documentation/subfolder/doc-file.rst (the extension being
optional).
This requires that the path be passed all the way from the Documentation
folder, which can be longer than passing a relative path through the
:doc: directive, but avoids the markup, making the text cleaner when
read in plain text.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-3-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The automarkup script previously matched expressions and substituted
them with markup to enable automatic cross-reference all in the same
function.
Split the expression matching iteration and the markup substitution into
different functions to make it easier to add new regular expressions and
functions to treat each of them.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-2-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There's a warning at iio.h kernel-doc markup:
./include/linux/iio/iio.h:644: WARNING: Unknown target name: "devm".
Because it is using {devm_}foo notation. Well, this is not
a valid kernel-doc notation. Also, it prevents creating hyperlinks
to other documentation functions.
So, replace it to a better notation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d8f2275c438c459ede4e6fba03ce719cc6ad898b.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There are two broken references at submitting-patches.rst:
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:240: WARNING: undefined label: security-bugs (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:336: WARNING: undefined label: documentation/process/email-clients.rst (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Those are due to some recent renames and file moves.
It turns that maintaining :ref: is currently harder than using
:doc:, as we now have a script to help checking such references.
So, replace :ref: to :doc: there, making them to point to the
current file name.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3ba405f579cf35ef2b39dd210d8ad46adc79f0ad.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix those warnings:
Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst:182: WARNING: Title underline too short.
Indefinite DMA Fences
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst:88: WARNING: Unknown target name: "fence poll support".
The first one is due to a shorter markup. The second one is
because the chapter name was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b2bc0bc88eb913635cfece13cc9f6eff7668d333.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, sphinx emits one warning on this file:
Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/stream.rst:522: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
That's due to some extra spaces before the title of a chapter.
Yet, the list afterwards is missing identation.
So, address both issues.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eddde9f8d121e27d7968b3d747064e16de8bec4f.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There are some warnings:
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst:4354: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst:4358: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst:4363: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Produced by the lack of identation on a single line. That
caused the literal block to end prematurely.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6b3679b6c2329dc9b16d397c289b5ade0184c63.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix those warnings:
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:185: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:185: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:184: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
The problem here is that the ``notation`` doesn't accept
multi lines. So, replace it to a code block using:
::
notation
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/42706310c09a6b4588a1a41078207246ad1238fa.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The default way of building documentation is to use
Sphinx toolchain installed via pip, inside the
Kernel tree main directory. That's what's recommended by:
scripts/sphinx-pre-install
As it usually provides a better version of this package
than the one installed, specially on LTS distros.
So, add the directories created by running the commands
suggested by the script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac4e23d556c7d95cb11d6d5c605f43e425b2c3c7.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This prevents the chapter headings from showing up in the table of
contents in filesystems/index.html.
Note that I didn't pick "UBIFS Authentication" as the document title,
because there is a chapter of the same name, and Sphinx complains about
multiple headings with the same name:
/.../Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst:207:
WARNING: duplicate label filesystems/ubifs-authentication:ubifs
authentication, other instance in
/.../Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst
Remove the :orphan: tag, as the document has been included into the
toctree.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200905204326.1378339-3-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add Sphinx reference links to HMM and CPUSETS, and numerous small
editorial changes to make the page_migration.rst document more readable.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902225247.15213-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Update information in the zero-length and one-element arrays section
and illustrate how to make use of the new flex_array_size() helper,
together with struct_size() and a flexible-array member.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901010949.GA21398@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add to Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst that patch
submitters should run "make htmldocs" and verify that any
Documentation/ changes (patches) are clean (no new warnings/errors).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf5bbdf5-03ff-0606-a6d4-ca196d90aee9@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
NeilBrown
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Randy Dunlap
Stephen Kitt
Bhaskar Chowdhury
Anton Ivanov
Tian Tao
lijiang
Satheesh Rajendran
Wilken Gottwalt
Jonathan Cameron
Ralph Campbell
Stephen Boyd
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
Jonathan Neuschäfer
Barry Song
Lars Poeschel
Gustavo A. R. Silva