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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
a7ee04b3ef docs: add ABI documentation to the admin-guide book
As we don't want a generic Sphinx extension to execute commands,
change the one proposed to Markus to call the abi_book.pl
script.

Use a script to parse the Documentation/ABI directory and output
it at the admin-guide.

Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5651482b06500e69a1acdf92152f90a203e6521d.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 13:07:01 +01:00
Daniel W. S. Almeida
00d7c1e55a docs: admin-guide/index.rst: Add pstore-blk.rst
Fix the following warning:

Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst:
WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree

By adding 'pstore-blk.rst' to the index

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718165107.625847-9-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-23 14:19:51 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
32e2eae23f media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide
Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help
users of the media subsystem.

Move them to the admin-guide.

It should be noticed, however, that several of those files
are outdated and will require further work in order to make
them useful again.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-14 10:34:58 +02:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
320bfd91a9 docs: admin-guide: Move edid.rst from driver-api
This document describes actions that an admin can do, rather than
interfaces available to driver developers, so admin-guide seems to
be a more appropriate place for it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 04:10:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e310396bb8 Tracing updates:
- Added new "bootconfig".
    Looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options.
    This has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
    Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
    Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
 
  - Created dynamic event creation.
    Merges common code between creating synthetic events and
      kprobe events.
 
  - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
 
  - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
    Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
 
  - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
 
  - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
 
  - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
 
  - Various other small fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Added new "bootconfig".

   This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
   and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.

   Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.

   Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.

 - Created dynamic event creation.

   Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
   events.

 - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"

 - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"

   Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"

 - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.

 - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized

 - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly

 - Various other small fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
  bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
  tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
  bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
  bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
  ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
  ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
  tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
  tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
  bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
  tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
  tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
  tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
  tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
  tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
  tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
  tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
  tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
  tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
  tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
  tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
  ...
2020-02-06 07:12:11 +00:00
Daniel W. S. Almeida
2f123b9a35 Documentation: convert nfs.txt to ReST
This patch converts nfs.txt to RST. It also moves it to admin-guide.
The reason for moving it is because this document contains information
useful for system administrators, as noted on the following paragraph:

'The purpose of this document is to provide information on some of the
special features of the NFS client that can be configured by system
administrators'.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cb9f2da2f2f6dd432b4cf9e05f79f74f4d54b6ab.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-01-16 12:43:04 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
7b9b816f4b Documentation: bootconfig: Add a doc for extended boot config
Add a documentation for extended boot config under
admin-guide, since it is including the syntax of boot config.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867230658.17873.9309879174829924324.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-01-13 13:19:40 -05:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
d4300c4e4f docs: admin-guide: Move Dell RBU document from driver-api
This document describes how an admin can use the dell_rbu driver, rather
than any in-kernel API details.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-15 12:35:39 -06:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
2c1d7ffdf4 docs: admin-guide: Sort the "unordered guides" to avoid merge conflicts
Since the "unordered guides" linked in admin-guide/index.rst are not
supposed to be in any particular order, let's sort them alphabetically
to avoid the risk of merge conflicts by spreading newly added lines more
evenly.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-15 12:34:32 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f139291c71 docs: fs: cifs: convert to ReST and add to admin-guide book
The filenames for cifs documentation is not using the same
convention as almost all Kernel documents is using. So,
rename them to a more appropriate name. Then, manually convert
the documentation files for CIFS to ReST.

By doing a manual conversion, we can preserve the original
author's style, while making it to look more like the other
Kernel documents.

Most of the conversion here is trivial. The most complex one was
the README file (which was renamed to usage.rst).

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 14:13:42 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
ff497db295 docs: wimax: convert to ReST and add to admin-guide
Manually convert wimax documentation to ReST and add theit
to the Kernel doc body, inside the admin-guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 13:31:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
76b5a6e842 docs: admin-guide: add auxdisplay files to it after conversion to ReST
Those two files describe userspace-faced information. While part of
it might fit on uAPI, it sounds to me that the admin guide is the
best place for them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 13:30:06 -06:00
Shobhit Kukreti
34d5f4f269 Documentation: filesystems: Convert ufs.txt to reStructuredText format
This converts the plain text documentation of ufs.txt to
reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process
and verified with make htmldocs

Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 13:09:55 -06:00
Shobhit Kukreti
ac841c4e45 Documentation: filesystems: Convert jfs.txt to
This converts the plain text documentation of jfs.txt to reStructuredText
format. Added to documentation build process and verified with
make htmldocs

Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31 13:09:14 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
366a4e38b8 Also new for 5.3:
- Bring fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c in sync with userspace libxfs.
 - Convert the xfs administrator guide to rst and move it into the
   official admin guide under Documentation
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Merge tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

Pull xfs cleanups from Darrick Wong:
 "We had a few more lateish cleanup patches come in for 5.3 -- a couple
  of syncups with the userspace libxfs code and a conversion of the XFS
  administrator's guide to ReST format.

  Summary:

   - Bring fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c in sync with userspace
     libxfs.

   - Convert the xfs administrator guide to rst and move it into the
     official admin guide under Documentation"

* tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
  Documentation: filesystem: Convert xfs.txt to ReST
  xfs: sync up xfs_trans_inode with userspace
  xfs: move xfs_trans_inode.c to libxfs/
2019-07-18 11:18:00 -07:00
Sheriff Esseson
89b408a68b Documentation: filesystem: Convert xfs.txt to ReST
Move xfs.txt to admin-guide, convert xfs.txt to ReST and broken references

Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2019-07-15 09:15:09 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c2746a1eb7 docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
While this is stated as obsoleted, the sysfs interface described
there is still valid, and belongs to the admin-guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
4f4cfa6c56 docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).

Move them to the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
da82c92f11 docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
83bbf6e103 docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Justin Sanders <justin@coraid.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
e7751617dd docs: blockdev: add it to the admin-guide
The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
330d481052 docs: admin-guide: add kdump documentation into it
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9e1cbede26 docs: admin-guide: add laptops documentation
The docs under Documentation/laptops contain users specific
information.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
5704324702 docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
6cf2a73cb2 docs: device-mapper: move it to the admin-guide
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped
disk partitions from the userspace PoV.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
bf6b7a742e docs: namespace: move it to the admin-guide
As stated at the documentation, this is meant to be for
users to better understand namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 09:20:27 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
59809fe882 docs: perf: move to the admin-guide
The perf infrastructure is used for userspace to track issues.
At least a good part of what's described here is related to
it.

So, add it to the admin-guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 09:20:27 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d2bdd48a65 docs: rapidio: add it to the driver API
This is actually a subsystem description, with contains both
kAPI and uAPI.

While it should ideally be slplit, let's place it at driver-api,
as most things are related to kAPI and driver-specific info.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 09:20:27 -03:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
66f2a122c6 docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
The documentation is more appropriate for the administrator than for
the internal kernel API section it is currently in.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-08 14:15:36 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
fa4bff1650 Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
  which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
  available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
  has the following CVEs assigned:

     CVE-2018-12126  MSBDS  Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12130  MFBDS  Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12127  MLPDS  Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
     CVE-2019-11091  MDSUM  Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory

  MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
  forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
  this data via cache side channels.

  Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
  vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
  address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
  as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
  successfully.

  The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
  user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
  instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
  exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
  requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
  default to avoid breaking unattended updates.

  The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
  deeper technical view"

* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
  Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
  x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
  x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
  x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
  x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
  Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
  Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
  x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
  x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
  x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
  x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
  x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
  ...
2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
Changbin Du
680e6ffa15 Documentation: add Linux ACPI to Sphinx TOC tree
Add below index.rst files for ACPI subsystem. More docs will be added later.
  o admin-guide/acpi/index.rst
  o driver-api/acpi/index.rst
  o firmware-guide/index.rst

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-04-25 23:06:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
65fd4cb65b Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
Move L!TF to a separate directory so the MDS stuff can be added at the
side. Otherwise the all hardware vulnerabilites have their own top level
entry. Should have done that right away.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:15 +01:00
Alexey Budankov
036c20c06e Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst
Extend index.rst index file at admin-guide root directory with
the reference to perf-security.rst file being introduced.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-06 09:50:53 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong
d309121592 docs: move ext4 administrative docs to admin-guide/
Move the ext4 mount option and other administrative stuff to the Linux
administrator's guide.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2018-10-05 19:11:59 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
3ec8ce5d86 Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities
Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

  - Explain the problem and risks
  - Document the mitigation mechanisms
  - Document the command line controls
  - Document the sysfs files

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de
2018-07-13 16:29:56 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
b6e9d06789 docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
The cgroup-v2.txt is already in ReST format. So, move it to the
admin-guide, where it belongs.

Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-10 15:42:41 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
fe8703cc0d docs: admin-guide: add bcache documentation
The bcache.txt is already in ReST format. So, move it to the
admin guide, where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08 10:00:22 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
3a3f7e26e5 docs/admin-guide: introduce basic index for mm documentation
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27 17:02:44 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
650fc870a2 There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time
around.  Highlights include:
 
  - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST
 
  - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing
    Mauro Machine.  We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain.
 
  - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time
  around. Highlights include:

   - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST

   - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing
     Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain.

   - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates"

* tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE
  Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst
  Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends
  Make the main documentation title less Geocities
  Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst
  Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst
  Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper
  Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package
  doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1
  docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters
  doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development
  Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst
  docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information
  Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name
  Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text
  doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example
  Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -> "minimum"
  docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst
  doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
  doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt
  ...
2017-07-03 21:13:25 -07:00
Mika Westerberg
163f151152 thunderbolt: Add documentation how Thunderbolt bus can be used
Since there are no such tool yet that handles all the low-level details
of connecting devices and upgrading their firmware, add a small document
that shows how the Thunderbolt bus can be used directly from command
line.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-09 11:42:43 +02:00
Kees Cook
504f231cda doc: ReSTify and split LSM.txt
The existing LSM.txt file covered both usage and development, so split
this into two files, one under admin-guide and one under kernel
development.

Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18 10:31:24 -06:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
2a0e492798 cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation
The user/admin documentation of cpufreq is badly outdated.  It
conains stale and/or inaccurate information along with things
that are not particularly useful.  Also, some of the important
pieces are missing from it.

For this reason, add a new user/admin document for cpufreq
containing current information to admin-guide and drop the old
outdated .txt documents it is replacing.

Since there will be more PM documents in admin-guide going forward,
create a separate directory for them and put the cpufreq document
in there right away.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-13 17:08:42 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
fd77f6ba7b docs-rst: admin-guide: add documentation for EDAC
EDAC is part of the Kernel's RAS facilities, with is useful for
system admins to detect errors. So, add it to the admin's guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-12-15 08:54:50 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f226e46087 admin-guide: merge oops-tracing with bug-hunting
Now that oops-tracing.rst has only information about
stack dumps found on OOPS, and bug-hunting.rst has only
information about how to identify the source code line
associated with a stack dump, let's merge them and
improve the information inside it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-07 16:50:33 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
337c188dff admin-guide: move tainted kernels info to a separate file
The tainted kernels info is not directly related to
the oops tracing. So, let's move it to a separate file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-07 16:50:28 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c730904b16 doc-rst: admin-guide: move bug bisect to a separate file
Better organize the admin guide documentation by moving the
bug bisect to a separate file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-07 16:50:23 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
9d2cccdd6c Merge branch 'doc-tweaks' into docs-next
The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without
care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx
books.  In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a
set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit
more accessible.
2016-10-27 17:47:58 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
5700d19748 docs: Get rid of the "basic profiling" guide
The document has not been touched in over 11 years and doesn't reflect how
profiling is done in the perf era.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:50 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
2c79dcafd8 docs: Get rid of the badRAM guide
The last release of this tool was for 2.6.28; it's hard to see how it has
any relevance to current kernels.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:26 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
7358bb2f32 docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit
The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something
better than an unordered blob of files.  This is a first step in that
direction.  The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been
reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them.

One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use
:numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't
seem to be a way to change that.  Eventually we probably want to group the
documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC,
but it's probably early to do that.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:06 -06:00