The notes on replacing the deprecated str*cpy() functions didn't call
enough attention to the change in return type. Add these details and
clean up the language a bit more.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015231730.2138505-1-keescook@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

format the example code.
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201018170557.GA7670@rlkSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

When TABs are being used to indent the code excerpts inside the bullet
lists some of the tools [vim in particular] fail to recognize it and
continue interpreting the special characters inside the quoted excerpt.

Update indentation in driver.rst for code excerpts to avoid
their special interpretation.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201007143817.76335-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix typo.
s/occured/occurred/
Signed-off-by: Naoki Hayama <naoki.hayama@lineo.co.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201012082441.5831-1-naoki.hayama@lineo.co.jpSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

sysfs-pci and sysfs-tagging were mis-filed: their locations within
Documentation/ implied that they were related to file systems. Actually,
each topic is about a very specific *use* of sysfs, and sysfs *happens*
to be a (virtual) filesystem, so this is not really the right place.

It's jarring to be reading about filesystems in general and then come
across these specific details about PCI, and tagging...and then back to
general filesystems again.

Move sysfs-pci to PCI, and move sysfs-tagging to networking. (Thanks to
Jonathan Corbet for coming up with the final locations.)
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009070128.118639-1-jhubbard@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Building the kernel with Clang doesn't rely on third party patches, and
has not for a few years now.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929211936.580805-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
[jc: Took out duplicated "docs" pointed out by Randy]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fixes: 9824c83f ("Documentation: kvm: document CPUID bit for MSR_KVM_POLL_CONTROL")
Signed-off-by: Li Qiang <liq3ea@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002150422.6267-1-liq3ea@163.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
Signed-off-by: Bailu Lin <bailu.lin@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200926025233.47214-1-bailu.lin@vivo.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add arm64 subdirectory into the table of Contents for zh_CN,
then add other translations in arm64 conveniently.
Signed-off-by: Bailu Lin <bailu.lin@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200926022558.46232-1-bailu.lin@vivo.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Map the address to my private mail, because my Marvell account has been suspended.
Signed-off-by: Mark Starovoytov <mstarovo@pm.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200928183948.589-1-mstarovo@pm.meSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

There are behavioural requirements on the seq_file next() function in
terms of how it updates *pos at end-of-file, and these are now enforced
by a warning.

I was recently attempting to justify the reason this was needed, and
couldn't remember the details, and didn't find them in the
documentation.

So I re-read the code until I understood it again, and updated the
documentation to match.

I also enhanced the text about SEQ_START_TOKEN as it seemed potentially
misleading.

Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87eemqiazh.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.nameSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

SPDX v3.10 gained support for GFDL-1.2 with no invariant sections:

	https://spdx.org/licenses/GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only.html

Let's use it, instead of keeping a license text for this file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dbc9bd9ab30c6862e465343239e82102cbdc0f39.1599628249.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The command-line parameters "dyndbg" and "async_probe" are not
parameters for kernel/module.c but instead they are for the
module that is being loaded. Try to make that distinction in the
help text.

OTOH, "module.sig_enforce" is handled as a parameter of kernel/module.c
so "module." is correct for it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/67d40b6d-c073-a3bf-cbb6-6cad941cceeb@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

nommu-mmap.rst was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm; this patch
updates the remaining stale references to Documentation/mm.

Fixes: 800c02f5 ("docs: move nommu-mmap.txt to admin-guide and rename to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812092230.27541-1-steve@sk2.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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/20200917072123.8847-1-steve@sk2.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

In commit 50145474 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated.  Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer present,remove the scrollback option.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/799e4d6ecca9aab53e823fc0001887d728be0aa5.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

In commit 50145474 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated.  Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer present i.e remove a stanza related to scrollback.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7e3e91ca0282d7e33a29476e51c1dd75aa1675f.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

In commit 50145474 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated.  Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer pressent, and removed the particular scrollback option.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e5187e70faf8237825a142313802983a6c214baa.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

In commit 50145474 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the
framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not
updated.  Properly update the documentation by removing the option that
is no longer present, and update the section numbering because of the
removal.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/436cc046a8ff9cf2a467b633527db77dc7c7de19.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The new HowTo migrates the portions of the old howto which
are still relevant to a new document, updates them to linux 5.x
and adds documentation for vector transports and other new
features.
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917103557.26063-1-anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Remove use of "rdev" from blockdev/ramdisk.rst and update
admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

"rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated
{choose any or all}.

"rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3fSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-3-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

"rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated
{choose any or all}.

Remove use of "rdev" and "vidmode" (a symlink to rdev) in
admin-guide/README.rst and admin-guide/svga.rst.

"rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3fSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-2-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix capitalization in two headings, correct one verb, and
demote one heading to a section heading.

Fixes: 791a17ee ("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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.localSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Subroutine dump_struct uses type attributes to check if the struct
syntax is valid. Then, it removes all attributes before using it for
output. `____cacheline_aligned` is an attribute that is
not included in both steps. Add it, since it is used by kernel structs.

Based on previous patch to add ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.
Motivated by patches to reorder this attribute to before the
variable name.   Whilst we could do that in all cases, that would
be a massive change and it is more common in the kernel to place
this particular attribute after the variable name. A quick grep
suggests approximately 400 instances of which 341 have this
attribute just before a semicolon and hence after the variable name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200910185415.653139-1-jic23@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>