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Randy Dunlap 497de97e92 Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: capitalize Korina
Fix typo, capitalize Korina proper noun.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054722.28713-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:48:24 -06:00
Randy Dunlap 622381e62d Documentation: admin-guide: kernel-parameters: reformat "lapic=" boot option
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>
2020-09-24 10:48:02 -06:00
Randy Dunlap 7c42376e07 Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: fix "io7" parameter description
Fix punctuation and capitalization for the "io7" boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054751.6538-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:46:51 -06:00
Randy Dunlap 255bf90f84 Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: fix "disable_ddw" wording
Drop and extraneous word (if) in a sentence.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054803.6588-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:46:15 -06:00
Tian Tao c372e741ae Documentation: Remove CMA's dependency on architecture
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>
2020-09-24 10:44:53 -06:00
lijiang 1d11c35e71 docs: admin-guide: update kdump documentation due to change of crash URL
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>
2020-09-24 10:43:07 -06:00
Randy Dunlap 4276948867 Documentation: kernel-parameters: fix formatting of MIPS "machtype"
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>
2020-09-24 10:38:40 -06:00
Randy Dunlap 8ede56489e Documentation: filesystems: mount_api: fix headings
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>
2020-09-24 10:37:43 -06:00
Satheesh Rajendran aed26eebf5 Doc: admin-guide: Add entry for kvm_cma_resv_ratio kernel param
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>
2020-09-24 10:36:49 -06:00
Wilken Gottwalt 73589a78b8 documentation: arm: sunxi: Allwinner H2+/H3 update
Replaced the link to the datasheet by a link to the current version.

Signed-off-by: Wilken Gottwalt <wilken.gottwalt@mailbox.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923065954.GA22809@monster.powergraphx.local
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:35:42 -06:00
Stephen Kitt 9f35cf8bd7 docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
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>
2020-09-16 12:38:31 -06:00
Tian Tao 5b280ed427 Documentation: arm64 also supports disable hugeiomap
arm64 also supports disable hugeiomap,updated documentation.

Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1599740386-47210-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-16 12:21:00 -06:00
Ralph Campbell f7ebd9ed77 mm/doc: add usage description for migrate_vma_*()
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>
2020-09-16 12:19:51 -06:00
Stephen Boyd b854e83101 docs: stable-ABI: Document /sys/kernel/notes
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>
2020-09-16 12:17:47 -06:00
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado c170f2eb96 docs: Document cross-referencing between documentation pages
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>
2020-09-16 11:09:51 -06:00
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado d18b01789a docs: Add automatic cross-reference for documentation pages
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>
2020-09-16 11:09:51 -06:00
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado 1ac4cfb2ce docs: Allow multiple automarkup functions
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>
2020-09-16 11:09:51 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 5ff4aa70bf docs: submitting-patches: use :doc: for references
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>
2020-09-10 10:50:01 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b899353d22 docs: dma-buf: fix some warnings
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>
2020-09-10 10:49:43 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 001e92922c docs: soundwire: fix some identation at stream.rst
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>
2020-09-10 10:49:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3c97f03e88 docs: kvm: api.rst: add missing spaces
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>
2020-09-10 10:49:11 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 50f32634f8 docs: watch_queue: fix some warnings
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>
2020-09-10 10:48:56 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4d05e3a0f5 docs: add some new files to their respective index.rst files
There were some new file additions for Kernel 5.7 and 5.8
that weren't added at the corresponding index file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fd4d04f0d122ff38b5342a0098d99cc2f546652.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-10 10:48:20 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7f9a2357c4 docs: trace: fix the location of kprobes.rst
This patch was moved out of staging.

Fixes: 2165b82fde ("docs: Move kprobes.rst from staging/ to trace/")

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a6d4c62e19ab1510789418a3a5ad42980cd7ae3a.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-10 10:46:24 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e4e29e78c0 docs: scheduler: fix the directory name on two files
The name of the directory where the schedule docs are
stored are wrong on those files.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a32c2bba17aa69dc18670b7de1a3a35bfa1e1f88.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-10 10:45:45 -06:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer 7eec675669 docs: ubifs-authentication: Add a top-level heading
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>
2020-09-09 11:53:33 -06:00
Barry Song 319f5fa089 Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: fix a typo
fourV CPUs should be four CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904101902.29560-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:42:09 -06:00
Lars Poeschel 2e915ea0bf Documentation: iio: fix a typo
Rename function name to the actual name referenced in
struct iio_sw_trigger_ops.

Signed-off-by: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904091911.269715-1-poeschel@lemonage.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:41:20 -06:00
Ralph Campbell 50aab9b142 mm/doc: editorial pass on page migration
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>
2020-09-09 11:39:46 -06:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva 17dca05023 docs: deprecated.rst: Update zero-length/one-element arrays section
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>
2020-09-09 11:37:49 -06:00
Randy Dunlap 9334e34fe1 Documentation: submit-checklist: add clean builds for new Documentation
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>
2020-09-09 11:36:39 -06:00
Denis Efremov e046de3d79 docs: filesystems: replace to_dev() with kobj_to_dev()
Commit a423296375 ("driver-core: Move kobj_to_dev from genhd.h to device.h")
introduced kobj_to_dev() function.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200830144135.6956-1-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:35:51 -06:00
Denis Efremov cf92ec602a Documentation: remove current_security() reference
Commit 15322a0d90 ("lsm: remove current_security()") removed
current_security() from the sources.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200830142509.5738-1-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:33:59 -06:00
Coly Li 27c8700bd1 bcache: doc: update Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst
bcache.rst is from the original bcache.txt which was merged in mainline
kernel v3.10. There are a few things changed in the past 7 years. This
patch updates bache.rst documents in following content,
- Update bcache-tools git repo to,
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/colyli/bcache-tools.git/
- Update bcache kernel tree to mainline kernel tree,
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
- make-bcache util is replaced by the unified bcache util,
  `make-bcache` now can be performed by `bcache make`

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821151354.16727-1-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:31:19 -06:00
Coly Li bb84bc51d2 docs: trusted-encrypted.rst: update parameters for command examples
The parameters in command examples for tpm2_createprimary and
tpm2_evictcontrol are outdated, people (like me) are not able to create
trusted key by these command examples.

This patch updates the parameters of command example tpm2_createprimary
and tpm2_evictcontrol in trusted-encrypted.rst. With Linux kernel v5.8
and tpm2-tools-4.1, people can create a trusted key by following the
examples in this document.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821135356.15737-1-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:30:14 -06:00
Connor Kuehl 46ca9ee5b8 docs: kvm: fix referenced ioctl symbol
The actual symbol that is exported and usable is
'KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP', not 'KVM_MEM_ENCRYPT_OP'

$ git grep -l KVM_MEM_ENCRYPT_OP
Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst

$ git grep -l KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

While we're in there, update the KVM API category for
KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP. It is called on a VM file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819211952.251984-1-ckuehl@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:19:39 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet afde706afd Make the docs build "work" with Sphinx 3.x
The Sphinx 3.x upgrade broke a number of things in our special "cdomain"
module that are not easy to fix.  For now, just disable that module for the
3.x build and put out a warning that the build will not be perfect.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-04 10:13:45 -06:00
Drew DeVault 9f364b605f submitting-patches.rst: presume git will be used
Git is fairly ubiquitous these days, and the additional information in
this documentation for preparing patches without it is not especially
relevant anymore and may serve to confuse new contributors.

The git request-pull comments were also removed, given that it is not a
tool well-suited to novice contributors, nor do maintainers especially
appreciate receiving unexpected request-pulls from new contributors.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-5-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 15:39:24 -06:00
Drew DeVault 4ebdf7be21 Documentation/maintainer: rehome sign-off process
The repeated sign-offs necessary when a subsystem maintainer modifies an
incoming patch has been moved from submitting-patches.rst to
Documentation/maintainer, since the affairs of a subsystem maintainer
are not especially relevant to someone reading a guide for how to submit
their first patch.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-4-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 15:39:24 -06:00
Drew DeVault 7433ff33e8 Documentation/process: expand plain-text advice
This adds a link to https://useplaintext.email to email-clients.rst,
which is a more exhaustive resource on configuring various mail clients
for plain text use. submitting-patches.rst is also updated to direct
readers to email-clients.rst to equip new contributors with the
requisite knowledge to become a good participant on the mailing lists.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-3-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 15:39:01 -06:00
Drew DeVault ef227c39b6 submitting-patches.rst: remove heading numbering
This follows similar changes throughout Documentation; these numbers
tend to get outdated and are not especially useful.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-2-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 15:37:46 -06:00
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado 7c8b9e3000 kernel-doc: Update "cross-referencing from rST" section to use automarkup
Update text and examples in the "Cross-referencing from
reStructuredText" section to reflect that no additional syntax is needed
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903005747.3900333-3-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 13:50:40 -06:00
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado d82b1e833e docs: Add automatic cross-reference for C types
In order to cross-reference C types in the documentation, Sphinx
requires the syntax :c:type:`type_name`, or even :c:type:`struct
type_name <type_name>` in order to have the link text different from the
target text.

Extend automarkup to enable automatic cross-reference of C types by
matching any "struct|union|enum|typedef type_name" expression.
This makes the documentation's plain text cleaner and adds
cross-reference to types without any additional effort by the author.

Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903005747.3900333-2-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 13:50:40 -06:00
Javier Garcia f67281a72b Documentation: process: step 2: Link to email list fixed.
In the past, these email lists where located at lists.redhat.com. This
is not longer the case and they are now at redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Signed-off-by: Javier Garcia <javier@beren.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901090949.14514-1-javier@beren.dev
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 10:31:03 -06:00
Dave Hansen 755a2f180c Documentation: clarify driver licensing rules
Greg has challenged some recent driver submitters on their license
choices. He was correct to do so, as the choices in these instances
did not always advance the aims of the submitters.

But, this left submitters (and the folks who help them pick licenses)
a bit confused. They have read things like
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst which says:

	individual source files can have a different license
	which is required to be compatible with the GPL-2.0

and Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst:

	We don't insist on any kind of exclusive GPL licensing,
	and if you wish ... you may well wish to release under
	multiple licenses.

As written, these appear a _bit_ more laissez faire than we've been in
practice lately. It sounds like we at least expect submitters to make
a well-reasoned license choice and to explain their rationale. It does
not appear that we blindly accept anything that is simply
GPLv2-compatible.

Drivers appear to be the most acute source of misunderstanding, so fix
the driver documentation first. Update it to clarify expectations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814145625.8B708079@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:36:11 -06:00
Joe Perches 3942ea7a10 deprecated.rst: Remove now removed uninitialized_var
It's now gone from the kernel so remove it from the deprecated API text.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5e10c1645dd8f735215cf54a74db0f8dd3f6cbd5.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:31:15 -06:00
Nick Desaulniers 3519c4d6e0 Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version
Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.

We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
time.  Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
to the past 3 major versions.  LLVM tends to support one major release
and one minor release every six months.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:30:20 -06:00
Krzysztof Kozlowski eb45fb2fb1 docs: process: Add cross-link to security-bugs
The submitting patches mentions criteria for a fix to be called
"security fix".  Add a link to document explaining the entire process
of handling security bugs.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827105319.9734-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:27:57 -06:00
Andrew Cooper 4680af672b docs/ia64: Drop obsolete Xen documentation
While the xensource.com URLs referenced still exist, neither the Xen or Linux
2.6.18 fork have been touched since 2009, 11 years ago.  Other URLs are dead.

IA64 support was removed in Xen 4.2, in 2012.  Relegate this piece of
documentation to source history.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827175405.24344-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:16:03 -06:00
SeongJae Park 33afda77a7 docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Allow architecture to override the flush barrier
Translate this commit to Korean:

    3e79f082eb ("libnvdimm/nvdimm/flush: Allow architecture to override the flush barrier")

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Yunjae Lee <lyj7694@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200829084027.4591-1-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:14:53 -06:00