Provide a shorter and easier process for users that deal with
regressions in stable and longterm kernels, as those should be reported
quickly.

To realize this in the least-confusing way and without having steps
multiple times in different places, split the 'search for existing
reports' into two. That has the additinal benefit that users will search
for them quickly when going through the step by step guide and thus will
save them trouble if the find reports.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d934c15e536bceeff5c40a126930ddf803548e08.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This duplicates two section to make the diff in the next patch a bit
easier to gasp for humans.

Straight copy, no content changes.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ef85edc8466f035eb243dd6629429ad4fd0565d8.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Reorder some steps where the order in which the readers perform them is
not crucial. This is a preparation for a later change that would make
the text much more complex otherwise.

Content just moved, not changed at all in the process.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8dfc58efde25a05ccf9bf85929826c4b1b9e09c5.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Tell users that reporting bugs with vendor kernels which are only
slightly patched can be okay in some situations, but point out there's a
risk in doing so.

Adjust some related sections to make them compatible and a bit clearer.
At the same time make them less daunting: we want users to report bugs,
even if they can't test vanilla mainline kernel.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/652ee20eb36228f5d7ca842299faa4cb472feedb.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix a typo and change "head over" to "scroll down", as suggested by Jon
when reviewing another patch that used the phrase the same way.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb845d2f1db6138337203bbfac419c04b5f28053.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/init.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cd2fd8d0ea2ad50afc6bd2abe15eba73b6c7940c.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/189f2403ad168dafb4d5e50847c235064a2acaad.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f4210d304fa3f0b2a6e9eb798f63bf2e267231a0.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dad9f26205e9cae7254ed21c796688851ca5ebfd.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b9106f76fdc8e20ce4fcd43aec499f00df411610.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/13d126d5a210988728c76398436c62f1fb25fb0c.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/provisoned/provisioned/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319015848.19515-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Change the spelling from "consistend" to "consistent".
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YFS5KV7ejNoZmt6H@mwandaSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/struture/structure/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322062237.2971314-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

All the error message types now have a verbose description.

Also there are two new groups of message types:

- Macros, Attributes and Symbols
- Functions and Variables

Rearrange the message types to fit these new groups as needed.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322082139.33822-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add new translations

* Documentation/translations/zh_CN/kernel-hacking/index.rst
* Documentation/translations/zh_CN/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst

And link them to zh_CN/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210323091651.GA23904@mipcSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Translate this commit to Korean:

    cf6d6fc2 ("docs: process/howto.rst: make sections on bug reporting match practice")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210308075701.23411-1-sj38.park@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Signed-off-by: Bryan Brattlof <hello@bryanbrattlof.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210323145509.139393-1-hello@bryanbrattlof.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/maintanence/maintenance/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324080046.20709-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

After commit 8341f2f2 ("sysrq: Use panic() to force a crash"),
a crash was not generated by dereferencing a NULL pointer anymore.

Let's update documentation as well to make it less misleading.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309191550.3955601-1-hsiangkao@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

To declutter the top-level table of contents (the side bar), this
patch reduces the architecture-specfic documentation to one top-level
item, "CPU Architectures".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312152804.2110703-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.netSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Loadpin cmdline interface "enabled" has been renamed to "enforce"
for a long time, but the User Description Document was not updated.
(Meaning unchanged)

And kernel_read_file* were moved from linux/fs.h to its own
linux/kernel_read_file.h include file. So update that change here.
Signed-off-by: Jiele zhao <unclexiaole@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210308020358.102836-1-unclexiaole@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Reword the subsystem bindings section to make sense, from a grammatical
point of view.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309130650.2318419-1-geert+renesas@glider.beSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH is used on x86 to do batched tlb shootdown by
sending one IPI to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages rather
than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry.
On arm64, tlb shootdown is done by hardware. Flush instructions are
innershareable. The local flushes are limited to the boot (1 per CPU)
and when a task is getting a new ASID.
So marking this feature as "TODO" is not proper. ".." isn't good as
well. So this patch adds a "N/A" for this kind of features which are
not needed on some architectures.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223003230.11976-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Just put in the relevant file names and let automarkup handle the rest.

Fixes: 550c8399 ("docs/zh_CN: Add zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/overcommited/overcommitted/
s/Overcommiting/Overcommitting/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313061029.28024-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/varibles/variables/

...and remove leading spaces from a sentence.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210305100923.3731-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
[jc: performed suggested prepositional tweak]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

We've missed a few documentation when adding new VM_* flags.  Add the missing
pieces so they'll be in sync now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302000646.432358-1-peterx@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Changeset f546ff0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7")
cleaned up some compatibility issues with previous Sphinx
versions, but it also dropped the PDF margin sets.

Without that, the media documentation won't build fine, as
the margins are too wide to display texts with monospaced
fonts.

While here, align the  "latex_elements = {" values, and add
a few other sphinxsetup configs in order to allow Sphinx to
wrap long lines on literal blocks.

Fixes: f546ff0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

 Documentation/conf.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/911fbac185dd09c7df715cf4153361b81f04b7ad.1614787053.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

X86 isn't the only architecture supporting NUMA_BALANCING. ARM64, PPC,
S390 and RISCV also support it:

arch$ git grep NUMA_BALANCING
arm64/Kconfig:  select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
arm64/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype:      select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
riscv/Kconfig:  select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
s390/Kconfig:   select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
s390/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
x86/Kconfig:    select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING     if X86_64
x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */

On the other hand, setup_numabalancing() is implemented in mm/mempolicy.c
which doesn't depend on architectures.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302084159.33688-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210301214722.2310911-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.netSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch translates Documentation/riscv/index.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-5-siyanteng@loongson.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch translates Documentation/riscv/pmu.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-4-siyanteng@loongson.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch translates Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst into Chineae.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-3-siyanteng@loongson.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch translates Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst intoChinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-2-siyanteng@loongson.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix a typo (supportinf -> supporting).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-9-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Drop a repeated word.
Fix punctuation of "eg." to "e.g."
Fix punctuation of "ie" to "i.e."
Add hyphentation to non-zero.
Capitalize PM (for Power Management).
Capitalize ID (for Identifier).
Change "," in a run-on sentence to ";".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-8-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add 'ledstate' to the keyboard_notifier_param struct info and tell
which header file contains that struct.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-7-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Correct hyphenation, spelling, and capitalization.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-6-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Use "E.g." instead of "Eg.".
Use correct index for buttons[] array.
Update all of struct gameport's descriptions.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-5-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>