The front page is the entry point to the documentation, especially for
people who read it online. It's a big mess of everything we could think to
toss into it. Rewrite the page with an eye toward simplicity and making it
easy for readers to get going toward what they really want to find.
This is only a beginning, but it makes our docs more approachable than
before.
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-3-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
...otherwise Sphinx won't cooperate when trying to list it explicitly in
the top-level index.rst file
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-2-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add devm_spi_alloc_master() and devm_spi_alloc_slave() to devres.rst.
They are introduced by
commit 5e844cc37a ("spi: Introduce device-managed SPI controller allocation").
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923141803.75734-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Translate core-api/packing.rst into Chinese.
Last English version used:
commit 1ec779b9fa ("docs: packing: move it to core-api book
and adjust markups").
Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/96b19575ca7e9e23941e8a5ef92120f1bffbc518.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Translate core-api/generic-radix-tree.rst into Chinese.
Last English version used:
commit ba20ba2e37 ("generic radix trees").
Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aad94e2a053ae021eb4d63240690b05c2f3e8dec.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Translate core-api/idr.rst into Chinese.
Last English version used:
commit 85656ec193 ("IDR: Note that the IDR API is deprecated").
Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9f578ea087df7ef8665fc08541d208e7429176ec.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In Fedora 36, cross-compiling an allmodconfig configuration
for other architectures on x86 fails with this problem:
In file included from ../scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:95,
from ../scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c:78:
/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/12/plugin/include/builtins.h:23:10: fatal
error: mpc.h: No such file or directory
23 | #include <mpc.h>
| ^~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In that distro, that header file is available in the separate
libmpc-devel package.
Although future versions of Fedora might correctly mark
that dependency, mention this additional package.
To help detect such problems ahead of time, describe the
gcc -print-file-name=plugin
command that is used by scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig to detect
plugins [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjjiYjCp61gdAMpDOsUBU-A2hFFKJoVx5VAC7yV4K6WYg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 43e96ef8b7 ("docs/core-api: Add Fedora instructions for GCC plugins");
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827193836.2582079-1-elliott@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* update to commit c04639a7d2 ("coding-style.rst: trivial: fix
location of driver model macros")
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yw2ewM4wfaDDLjTk@bobwxc.mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
commit 7c693f54c8 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS")
adds the "ibrs " option in
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt but omits it to
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst, add it.
Signed-off-by: Lin Yujun <linyujun809@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830123614.23007-1-linyujun809@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Change occurrences of "it's" that are possessive to "its"
so that they don't read as "it is".
For f2fs.rst, reword one description for better clarity.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901002828.25102-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream
commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream
commit hash.
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901184328.4075701-1-carnil@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The current section 'If something goes wrong' makes a number of suggestions
for debugging, bug hunting and reporting issues, which are quite briefly
described in that section.
However, the suggestions are also well covered in other kernel
documentation or sometimes simply outdated. Here, each suggestion in that
section is summarized, and then followed with its assessment, and the
derived action for each suggestion:
- use MAINTAINERS and mailing list: covered in 'Reporting issues',
summarized in the short guide, detailed in its further section.
Reporting issues even provides some specific examples that guides
readers well through the needed steps. Refer to 'Reporting issues'.
- contact Linus Torvalds: probably outdated as currently described.
nevertheless covered in 'Reporting issues'. Reporting issues points out
to contact the relevant kernel maintainers first, and after some
patience and failed attempts with those maintainers, contacting Linus
Torvalds might be okay. Refer to 'Reporting issues'.
- tell what kernel, how to duplicate, the setup, if the problem is new
or old and when did you notice: covered in 'Reporting issues',
especially in Step-by-step guide how to report issues to the kernel
maintainers. Refer to 'Reporting issues'.
- duplicate kernel bug reports exactly: covered in 'Reporting issues',
especially in Write and send the report. Refer to 'Reporting issues'.
- read 'Bug hunting': keep this reference. Refer to 'Bug hunting'.
- compile the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS: covered in 'Reporting issues',
especially in Decode failure messages. Refer to 'Reporting issues'.
- alternatively, use ksymoops: ksymoops at the mentioned URL seems not to
be maintained anymore. It was released roughly once a year until
version 2.4.11 in 2005, but has not seen a new release since then. The
information in ./scripts/ksymoops/README is from 1999, and does not
give more insight on its actual maintenance state either. Ksymoops is
mentioned as system utility in changes.rst, but also not recommended
there. Drop the explanation on using ksymoops.
- alternatively, lookup dump manually with the EIP and nm to determine
the function in which the kernel crashes: this method seems already a
quite advanced and low-level debugging method. Even all the further
references on bug hunting and debugging do not mention it. Drop this
alternative method and limit mentioning methods explained in the other
existing kernel documentation.
- read 'Reporting issues': keep this reference.
Refer to 'Reporting issues'.
- use gdb for debugging: some specific details, e.g., edit
arch/x86/Makefile, are probably outdated or limited to one (historic
important) setup. Using gdb is covered in 'Bug hunting', 'Debugging
kernel and modules via gdb' and 'Using kgdb, kdb and the kernel
debugger internals'. Refer to those three documents.
Overall, it is sufficient to refer to reporting-issues.rst,
bug-hunting.rst, gdb-kernel-debugging.rst and kgdb.rst and this way cover
the existing suggestions.
'Reporting issues' is quite new and probably up to date. 'Bug hunting',
'Debugging kernel and modules via gdb' and 'Using kgdb, kdb and the kernel
debugger internals' might need some revisit and update, but they are
generally in an acceptable state for referring to them.
Replace the existing suggestions by reference to other existing kernel
documentation covering those suggestions---partly even nicely summarized
and then explained in greater detail.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220720041325.15693-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Running a.out user programs with the latest kernel release is a very rare
and uncommon use case nowadays. The support of a.out user programs is only
remaining for the alpha architecture and is not defined and activated in
the architecture's Kconfig (so even the activation of this support requires
to modify the Kconfig file and not just kernel build configuration).
The discussion on a.out support in 2019 (see Link) shows that the support
of a.out user programs is just remaining for a special corner case from
some (alpha architecture) users.
There is no need to point out and mention this special feature to the
general audience of kernel users. Delete the reference to this historic and
special feature.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgt7M6yA5BJCJo0nF22WgPJnN8CvViL9CAJmd+S+Civ6w@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220720041325.15693-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Correct all uses of "it's" that are meant to be possessive "its".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220801025207.29971-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
On some distros with coarse-grained packaging policy, dvipng is
installed along with latex. In such cases, math rendering will
use imgmath by default. It is possible to override the choice by
specifying the option string of "-D html_math_renderer='mathjax'"
to sphinx-build (Sphinx >= 1.8).
To provide developers an easier-to-use knob, add code for an env
variable "SPHINX_IMGMATH" which overrides the automatic choice
of math renderer for html docs.
SPHINX_IMGMATH=yes : Load imgmath even if dvipng is not found
SPHINX_IMGMATH=no : Don't load imgmath (fall back to mathjax)
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5a582b2b-d51c-a062-36b2-19479cf68fab@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, math expressions using the "math::" directive or
the ":math:" role of Sphinx need the imgmath extension for proper
rendering in html and epub builds.
imgmath requires dvipng (and latex).
Otherwise, "make htmldocs" will complain of missing commands.
As a matter of fact, the mathjax extension is loaded by default since
Sphinx v1.8 and it is good enough for html docs without any dependency
on texlive packages.
Stop loading the imgmath extension for html docs unless requirements
for imgmath are met.
To find out whether required commands are available, add a helper
find_command(), which is a wrapper of shutil.which().
For epub docs, keep the same behavior of always loading imgmath.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a6a877fc-dc93-2bda-a6d3-37001d99942a@gmail.com
[jc: Took out the writing of the math_renderer decision]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* update to commit 163ba35ff3 ("doc: use KCFLAGS instead of
EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line")
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ywli7VfhQVPHKiGw@bobwxc.mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add missing update for the documentation bit of some scheduler knob.
The knobs have been moved to /debug/sched/ location (with adjusted names).
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816121907.841-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The English version of IRQ has been refactored and
the new document (not called that anymore) has been
moved to core-api/irq, which has been translated
into Chinese. oops-tracing is pretty much the same,
let's remove them.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7dc43c33ea7e2edf668070b203dce83b285f2cdb.1661431365.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The description of s_lastcheck_hi, s_first_error_time_hi, and
s_last_error_time_hi fields refer to themselves, while these means
referring to upper 8 bits (byte) of corresponding fields (s_lastcheck,
s_first_error_time, and s_last_error_time). Correct the mistake.
Signed-off-by: JunChao Sun <sunjunchao2870@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220815125233.2040-1-sunjunchao2870@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
According to the implementation of xfs_trans_roll(), it calls
xfs_trans_reserve(), which reserves not only log space, but also
free disk blocks. In short, the "transaction stuff". So change
xfs_log_reserve() to xfs_trans_reserve().
Besides, fix several typo issues.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823013653.203469-1-zhaomzhao@126.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Add back still referenced labels in submitting-patches.rst and
email-clients.rst.
* Fix a typo.
Fixes: fdb34b18b959 ("docs/zh_CN: Update zh_CN/process/submitting-patches.rst to 5.19")
Fixes: d7aeaebb920f ("docs/zh_CN: Update zh_CN/process/email-clients.rst to 5.19")
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yv7i1tYMvK9J/NHj@bobwxc.mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With more developers beginning to use b4 and patatt, add a section to
the guide that talks about setting up and using patatt for PGP-signing
patch submissions.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-4-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Update ECC sections with the latest details, now that Yubikeys are able
to support ED25519 curves. Tweak a few links to smartcard devices to
reflect the latest URL changes.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-3-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Keyservers are largely a thing of the past with the replacement systems
like keys.openpgp.net specifically designed to offer no support for the
web of trust. Remove all sections that talk about keyservers and add a
small section with the link to kernel.org documentation that talks about
using the kernel.org public key repository.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-2-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
GnuPG does not use the word "master key" when referring to the subkey
marked with the "certification" capability. Our use of this term was not
only inconsistent, but also misleading, because in real life "master
keys" are able to open multiple locks made for different keys, while PGP
Certify key has no such capability.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-1-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
