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The current LKMM documentation says very little about litmus tests, and worse yet directs people to the herd7 documentation for more information. Now, the herd7 documentation is quite voluminous and educational, but it is intended for people creating and modifying memory models, not those attempting to use them. This commit therefore updates README and creates a litmus-tests.txt file that gives an overview of litmus-test format and describes ways of modeling various special cases, illustrated with numerous examples. [ paulmck: Add Alan Stern feedback. ] [ paulmck: Apply Dave Chinner feedback. ] [ paulmck: Apply Andrii Nakryiko feedback. ] [ paulmck: Apply Johannes Weiner feedback. ] Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/827180/ Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.