After commit 8341f2f222 ("sysrq: Use panic() to force a crash"),
a crash was not generated by dereferencing a NULL pointer anymore.
Let's update documentation as well to make it less misleading.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309191550.3955601-1-hsiangkao@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To declutter the top-level table of contents (the side bar), this
patch reduces the architecture-specfic documentation to one top-level
item, "CPU Architectures".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312152804.2110703-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Loadpin cmdline interface "enabled" has been renamed to "enforce"
for a long time, but the User Description Document was not updated.
(Meaning unchanged)
And kernel_read_file* were moved from linux/fs.h to its own
linux/kernel_read_file.h include file. So update that change here.
Signed-off-by: Jiele zhao <unclexiaole@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210308020358.102836-1-unclexiaole@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reword the subsystem bindings section to make sense, from a grammatical
point of view.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309130650.2318419-1-geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH is used on x86 to do batched tlb shootdown by
sending one IPI to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages rather
than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry.
On arm64, tlb shootdown is done by hardware. Flush instructions are
innershareable. The local flushes are limited to the boot (1 per CPU)
and when a task is getting a new ASID.
So marking this feature as "TODO" is not proper. ".." isn't good as
well. So this patch adds a "N/A" for this kind of features which are
not needed on some architectures.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223003230.11976-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Just put in the relevant file names and let automarkup handle the rest.
Fixes: 550c8399d0 ("docs/zh_CN: Add zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
s/varibles/variables/
...and remove leading spaces from a sentence.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210305100923.3731-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
[jc: performed suggested prepositional tweak]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We've missed a few documentation when adding new VM_* flags. Add the missing
pieces so they'll be in sync now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302000646.432358-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Changeset f546ff0c0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7")
cleaned up some compatibility issues with previous Sphinx
versions, but it also dropped the PDF margin sets.
Without that, the media documentation won't build fine, as
the margins are too wide to display texts with monospaced
fonts.
While here, align the "latex_elements = {" values, and add
a few other sphinxsetup configs in order to allow Sphinx to
wrap long lines on literal blocks.
Fixes: f546ff0c0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Documentation/conf.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/911fbac185dd09c7df715cf4153361b81f04b7ad.1614787053.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documentation/riscv/index.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-5-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documentation/riscv/pmu.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-4-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst into Chineae.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-3-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch translates Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst intoChinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-2-siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Drop a repeated word.
Fix punctuation of "eg." to "e.g."
Fix punctuation of "ie" to "i.e."
Add hyphentation to non-zero.
Capitalize PM (for Power Management).
Capitalize ID (for Identifier).
Change "," in a run-on sentence to ";".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-8-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Change other related documentation file names from .txt to .rst
and be more explicit about their paths/locations.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johann Deneux <johann.deneux@gmail.com>
Cc: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-4-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When anonymous enums are used, the identifier is empty.
While, IMO, it should be avoided the usage of such enums,
adding support for it is not hard.
So, postpone the check for empty identifiers to happen
only at the dump phase.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/055ad57879f1b9381b90879e00f72fde1c3a5647.1614760910.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
dynamic debug is "expecting pairs of match-spec <value>" so the example
for all files of which the paths include "usb" there is "file" missing.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@puri.sm>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303091646.773111-1-martin.kepplinger@puri.sm
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a paragraph about the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() helper macro, and use it in
the example. Retain the old description, as it is still useful in case
of multiple groups. Change the names of the group(s) structures, to
match the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() macro.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303133845.3939403-3-geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
bus.rst, driver.rst, and hwmon-kernel-api.rst refer to the
DEVICE_ATTR_* macros for devices, but device.rst does not mention them.
Add a paragraph about these helper macros, and use them in the examples.
Retain the old description, as it is still useful for less common values
of mode. Change the names of the example "show" and "store" methods, to
match the expectations of the DEVICE_ATTR_* macros.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303133845.3939403-2-geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/unicode.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304080148.GA16612@mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304080131.GA16539@mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, kernel-doc warns for function prototype parsing on the
presence of attributes "__attribute_const__" and "__flatten" in the
definition.
There are 166 occurrences in ~70 files in the kernel tree for
"__attribute_const__" and 5 occurrences in 4 files for "__flatten".
Out of 166, there are 3 occurrences in three different files with
"__attribute_const__" and a preceding kernel-doc; and, 1 occurrence in
./mm/percpu.c for "__flatten" with a preceding kernel-doc. All other
occurrences have no preceding kernel-doc.
Add support for "__attribute_const__" and "__flatten" attributes.
A quick evaluation by running 'kernel-doc -none' on kernel-tree reveals
that no additional warning or error has been added or removed by the fix.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210306113510.31023-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add fs/eventpoll.c to the filesystem api-summary book.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210042526.23174-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Use the documented kernel-doc format for function Return: descriptions.
Begin constant values in kernel-doc comments with '%'.
Remove kernel-doc "/**" from 2 functions that are not documented with
kernel-doc notation.
Fix typos, punctuation, & grammar.
Also fix a few kernel-doc warnings:
../fs/eventpoll.c:1883: warning: Function parameter or member 'ep' not described in 'ep_loop_check_proc'
../fs/eventpoll.c:1883: warning: Excess function parameter 'priv' description in 'ep_loop_check_proc'
../fs/eventpoll.c:1932: warning: Function parameter or member 'ep' not described in 'ep_loop_check'
../fs/eventpoll.c:1932: warning: Excess function parameter 'from' description in 'ep_loop_check'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All userspace ioctls major/magic number should be documented in
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst, so add
the entry for <linux/nsfs.h>.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210182248.18101-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
As started by commit 05a5f51ca5 ("Documentation: Replace lkml.org
links with lore"), replace a few more scattered lkml.org links with
lore to better use a single source that's more likely to stay available
long-term.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210234005.2236201-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Marvell has an annoying habit of moving stuff around their web site
every full moon, and often just removing documents altogether.
At this point basically none but four of the links still works and even
those that work today weren't working for a long period of time
previously. That is a shame because (short of the product briefs) the
documents tend to be quite useful.
Let's replace them with known working versions of IA's Wayback Machine
links. That seems to be about the only way of getting a URL that's going
to work the next week.
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210215220839.423709-2-lkundrak@v3.sk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add more blurb about the level of detail that should be contained in a
patch's commit message. Extend and make more explicit what text should
be added under the --- line. Extend examples and split into more easily
palatable paragraphs.
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>
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210215141949.GB21734@zn.tnic
[jc: Tweaked "example subjects" wording]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
