Updates the bootloader and installation instructions in
admin-guide/README.rst to align with modern practices.

Details of Changes:

 - Added guidance on using EFISTUB for UEFI/EFI systems.
 - Noted that LILO is no longer in active development and provides
   alternatives.
 - Kept LILO instructions but marked as Legacy LILO Instructions.
   Suggest removal in future patch.
Signed-off-by: Hunter Chasens <hunter.chasens18@ncf.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
[jc: repaired added whitespace warnings]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207171007.45405-1-hunter.chasens18@ncf.edu

The script tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py (YNL_TOOL) generates several .rst
files (YNL_INDEX, YNL_RST_FILES) in Documentation/networking/netlink_spec
(YNL_RST_DIR) which are not deleted by make cleandocs.

Fix make cleandocs by deleting the generated .rst files.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208145001.61769-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

This file is using an ungodly mixture of 4 spaces, 2-wide tabs, 4-wide
tabs, _and_ 8-wide tabs, making it really hard to find good editor
settings for working with this file.

Bite the bullet and reindent it by hand. I tried using both perltidy
and vim, but neither of them were up to the task without changing too
much or getting confused about what they were supposed to be doing.

I did change a few instances of

    }
    else

into

    } else

(and same for elsif); the file is again written using both styles, and
I left functions which already seemed self-consistent alone.

You can verify that this commit only changes whitespace using e.g.:

    git diff --ignore-all-space --word-diff

or to see (only) the instances where newlines were added/removed:

    git diff --ignore-all-space

You can also see the delta from what perltidy would have wanted to
do to this file (when asked to only indent it), which isn't that much
in the end:

    perltidy -io -fnl scripts/kernel-doc
    git diff --no-index scripts/kernel-doc{,.tdy}
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208161705.888385-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

The Python module pyyaml is required to build the docs, but it is only
listed in Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt and is therefore missing
when Sphinx is installed as a package and not via pip/pypi.

Add pyyaml as an optional package for multiple distros to fix building the
docs if you prefer to install Sphinx as a package.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208205550.984-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

This patch adds the italian translation for I2C subsystem summary and
protocol. Plus, a reference in the subsystem-apis page.
Signed-off-by: Davide Benini <davide.benini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209220126.28042-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it

The netdev-FAQ page in the italian translation was creted to avoid
having broken links. With the evolution of the documentation this was
not referenced anymore, but the page never removed.
Reported-by: Davide Benini <davide.benini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209222115.31505-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it

The servers for the @codeaurora domain have long been retired and any
messages addressed to @codeaurora will bounce.

Trilok has an entry in .mailmap, but the raw documentation files still
list an old @codeaurora address.  Update the address in the
documentation files for anyone reading them.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202164119.4090703-1-quic_jhugo@quicinc.com

- s/exists/exist/
- s/maybe/may be/
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208152039.65293-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

- Fix spelling/capitalization s/Restructured/ReStructured/
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207122127.9182-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

Indicate that the actual value will be one character less.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205154100.736499-1-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name
[jc: did s/null/NUL/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This issue was detected with the scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py tool.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207150322.20238-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com

Resolve a spelling error in the documentation found
with codespell.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Mezzela <vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208162748.111120-1-vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.com

- Add missing article "the"
- s/above example/example above/
- Add missing comma after introductory clause to improve readability
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205132409.1957-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

sphinx.rst:
- Remove unnecessary newline
- Fix grammar s/on/in/
- Fix grammar s/check/checks/
- Capitalize heading "The C domain"

changes.rst:
- Remove colon after "pahole" to be consistent with other entries

howto.rst:
- Fix grammar s/you will/will you/
- Hyphenate "real-world problems"
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205000117.3285-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

Use c and elisp instead of none in code-blocks
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203223926.5077-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

The number of possible CPUs is set be kernel in early boot time through
some discovery mechanisms, like ACPI in x86. We have a parameter both
in x86 and S390 to override that - there are some cases of BIOSes exposing
more possible CPUs than the available ones, so this parameter is a good
testing mechanism, but for some reason wasn't mentioned so far in the
kernel parameters guide - let's fix that.

Cc: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203152208.1461293-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com

- Remove spaces in C code-blocks to align error labels consistently
- Replace tab characters with spaces in emacs-lisp code blocks
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202231316.7606-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

Extend the list of maintainer profiles with SoC and netdev.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131125351.123509-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org

In a rather unusual arrangement in include/media/v4l2-vp9.h struct
v4l2_vp9_frame_symbol_counts has fields that are arrays of pointers, not a
pointer to an array, which is what's usually done.

Add support for such arrays of pointers to kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131084934.191226-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com

During review, it was suggested that drivers only emit messages when
something is wrong or it is a debug message. Document this as a formal
recommendation.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/2024012525-alienate-frown-916b@gregkh/Signed-off-by: Abhishek Pandit-Subedi <abhishekpandit@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240125165311.1.I8d9c88e747e233917e527c7dad1feb8a18f070e2@changeid

The kernel subsystem APIs front page currently has four top-level
groupings with headers, and then everything else that isn't grouped.
But in the table-of-contents, ungrouped subsystems are indented as
if they were part of the preceding grouping (currently "Storage
interfaces"), which is confusing.

Fix this by adding an "Other subsystems" header for the ungrouped
subsystems.

Fixes: 3c591cc9 ("docs: consolidate human interface subsystems")
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240125045941.123297-1-mhklinux@outlook.com

fedora 38 and later changed the directory and package name that
provides NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc. this adds the new search path and
suggests the correct package if on fedora 38 or later.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ballance <andrewjballance@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240124043918.31771-1-andrewjballance@gmail.com

In the Linux perf tool, the ring buffer serves not only as a medium for
transferring PMU event data but also as a vital mechanism for hardware
tracing using technologies like Intel PT and Arm CoreSight, etc.

Consequently, the ring buffer mechanism plays a crucial role by ensuring
high throughput for data transfer between the kernel and user space
while avoiding excessive overhead caused by the ring buffer itself.

This commit documents the ring buffer mechanism in detail.  It explains
the implementation of both the regular ring buffer and the AUX ring
buffer.  Additionally, it covers how these ring buffers support various
tracing modes and explains the synchronization with memory barriers.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240102085001.228815-1-leo.yan@linaro.org

Add some subsection headings and reorder entries so that the page makes a
bit more sense.  With luck, adding some ordering will also reduce merge
conflicts due to everybody adding new entries at the end.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87ttn5m2q1.fsf@meer.lwn.net

Add subsections in an attempt to bring a bit order to this page; also sort
most subsections into alphabetical order.  With luck all this will help to
prevent merge conflicts on this page due to everybody adding entries at the
end.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87plxtm2oo.fsf@meer.lwn.net

To begin with:
    - locking/index.rst
    - locking/lockdep-design.rst
    - locking/lockstat.rst
    - locking/lockturture.rst
    - locking/locktypes.rst

And RCU/torture.rst to avoid broken references.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240106233820.30454-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it

Since 2014 kernel-doc has supported describing object-like macros
but it is not documented anywhere. I should have required some
documentation for it when I merged the patch. :(

There are currently only 3 uses of this (all in DRM headers, in
include/drm/*.h).

Add object-like macro kernel-doc documentation now so that more may
know about it and use it.

Fixes: cbb4d3e6 ("scripts/kernel-doc: handle object-like macros")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240107012400.32587-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

Linux kernel does not use "MACDOC" in any documenation or any
source files, so stop searching for it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240108003700.13418-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

It's good to be clear about who the intended target audience for any
given piece of documentation is, as this will help us put new text in
the correct place. Let's encourage submitters to state it explicitly
rather than relying on where they placed it in the directory hierarchy
as there isn't necessarily a one-to-one correspondence between them.

Target audience: documentation contributors and reviewers.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111094838.3695697-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

To prevent this, do the pre-processing only for lines which are no
comments, e.g. do not start with ' *'.
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122093152.22536-3-anna-maria@linutronix.de

Reformat lines in kernel-doc comments, which make use of the backslash at
the end to suggest it is a multi-line comment. kernel-doc is able to
process e.g. the short description of a function properly, even if it is
across two lines.

No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122093152.22536-2-anna-maria@linutronix.de

Commit 1db9d06aaa55 ("mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and
Makefile") removes the config SLAB and makes the SLUB allocator the only
default allocator in the kernel. Hence, the advice on reducing OS jitter
due to kworker kernel threads to build with CONFIG_SLUB instead of
CONFIG_SLAB is obsolete.

Remove the obsolete advice to build with SLUB instead of SLAB.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130095515.21586-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com

This comment about DRM drivers has been there since the first git
commit. It simply doesn't belong in kernel-parameters; remove it.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111085220.3693059-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

Since the mailing archive list lkml.org is obsolete, change the links into
lore.kernel.org's ones.
Signed-off-by: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240118090140.4868-1-2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn

When on the documentation home page, there won't be any ".current"
element since no entry from the TOC was selected yet. That results in a
javascript error. Fix that by only trying to set the scrollTop if we
have matches for current entries.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Sousa <gustavo.sousa@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123162157.61819-2-gustavo.sousa@intel.com

Pull more bcachefs updates from Kent Overstreet:
 "Some fixes, Some refactoring, some minor features:

   - Assorted prep work for disk space accounting rewrite

   - BTREE_TRIGGER_ATOMIC: after combining our trigger callbacks, this
     makes our trigger context more explicit

   - A few fixes to avoid excessive transaction restarts on
     multithreaded workloads: fstests (in addition to ktest tests) are
     now checking slowpath counters, and that's shaking out a few bugs

   - Assorted tracepoint improvements

   - Starting to break up bcachefs_format.h and move on disk types so
     they're with the code they belong to; this will make room to start
     documenting the on disk format better.

   - A few minor fixes"

* tag 'bcachefs-2024-01-21' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs: (46 commits)
  bcachefs: Improve inode_to_text()
  bcachefs: logged_ops_format.h
  bcachefs: reflink_format.h
  bcachefs; extents_format.h
  bcachefs: ec_format.h
  bcachefs: subvolume_format.h
  bcachefs: snapshot_format.h
  bcachefs: alloc_background_format.h
  bcachefs: xattr_format.h
  bcachefs: dirent_format.h
  bcachefs: inode_format.h
  bcachefs; quota_format.h
  bcachefs: sb-counters_format.h
  bcachefs: counters.c -> sb-counters.c
  bcachefs: comment bch_subvolume
  bcachefs: bch_snapshot::btime
  bcachefs: add missing __GFP_NOWARN
  bcachefs: opts->compression can now also be applied in the background
  bcachefs: Prep work for variable size btree node buffers
  bcachefs: grab s_umount only if snapshotting
  ...

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for time and clocksources:

   - A fix for the idle and iowait time accounting vs CPU hotplug.

     The time is reset on CPU hotplug which makes the accumulated
     systemwide time jump backwards.

   - Assorted fixes and improvements for clocksource/event drivers"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs CPU hotplug
  clocksource/drivers/ep93xx: Fix error handling during probe
  clocksource/drivers/cadence-ttc: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix make W=n kerneldoc warnings
  clocksource/timer-riscv: Add riscv_clock_shutdown callback
  dt-bindings: timer: Add StarFive JH8100 clint
  dt-bindings: timer: thead,c900-aclint-mtimer: separate mtime and mtimecmp regs

Pull powerpc fixes from Aneesh Kumar:

 - Increase default stack size to 32KB for Book3S

Thanks to Michael Ellerman.

* tag 'powerpc-6.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/64s: Increase default stack size to 32KB

Add line breaks - inode_to_text() is now much easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>