Make lib/textsearch.c usable as kernel-doc.
Add textsearch() function family to kernel-api documentation.
Fix kernel-doc warnings in <linux/textsearch.h>:
../include/linux/textsearch.h:65: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
* get_next_block - fetch next block of data
../include/linux/textsearch.h:82: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
* finish - finalize/clean a series of get_next_block() calls
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When debugging recent kernels, people will see '(ptrval)' but there
isn't much information as to what that means. Briefly describe why it's
there.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move the idr kernel-doc to its own idr.rst file and add a few
paragraphs about how to use it. Also add some more kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Add a console_msg_format command line option:
The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "<log
level>[timestamp] text" format.
This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
at hands.
- Reduce the risk of softlockup:
Pass the console owner in a busy loop.
This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
waiter.
The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
much to flush.
There is increasing number of people having problems with
printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
direction.
- Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():
This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.
- Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:
It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.
Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
a special elf section and could be easily detected.
- Remove printk_symbol() API:
It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.
- Remove redundant memsets:
Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
command line option.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
lib: do not use print_symbol()
irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
drivers: do not use print_symbol()
x86: do not use print_symbol()
unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
sh: do not use print_symbol()
mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
...
- Move errseq.rst into core-api
- Add errseq to the core-api index
- Promote the header to a more prominent header type, otherwise we get three
entries in the table of contents.
- Reformat the table to look nicer and be a little more proportional in
terms of horizontal width per bit (the SF bit is still disproportionately
large, but there's no way to fix that).
- Include errseq kernel-doc in the errseq.rst
- Neaten some kernel-doc markup
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/printk-formats.txt is a candidate for conversion to
ReStructuredText format. Some effort has already been made to do this
conversion even thought the suffix is currently .txt
Changes required to complete conversion
- Move printk-formats.txt to core-api/printk-formats.rst
- Add entry to Documentation/core-api/index.rst
- Remove entry from Documentation/00-INDEX
- Fix minor grammatical errors.
- Order heading adornments as suggested by rst docs.
- Use 'Passed by reference' uniformly.
- Update pointer documentation around %px specifier.
- Fix erroneous double backticks (to commas).
- Remove extraneous double backticks (suggested by Jonathan Corbet).
- Simplify documentation for kobject.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
[jc: downcased "kernel"]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Update kernel-doc notation in lib/uuid.c and then add UUID/GUID
function interfaces to kernel-api.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
[jc: tweaked the uuid_is_valid() kerneldoc]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add sort() and list_sort() to the kernel API documentation in a
new "Sorting" section.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different
memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts.
This adds a document outlining these differences (
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as
some other minor improvements.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In code blocks, :c:func:`...` annotations don't result in
cross-references. Instead, they are rendered verbatim. Remove these
broken annotations, and mark function calls with parentheses() again.
Fixes: 76d40fae13 ("genericirq.rst: add cross-reference links and use monospaced fonts")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again.
- The old driver statement has been added to the kernel docs.
- We have a couple of new helper scripts. find-unused-docs.sh from
Sayli Karnic will point out kerneldoc comments that are not actually
used in the documentation. Jani Nikula's
documentation-file-ref-check finds references to non-existing files.
- A new ftrace document from Steve Rostedt.
- Vinod Koul converted the dmaengine docs to RST
Beyond that, it's mostly simple fixes.
This set reaches outside of Documentation/ a bit more than most. In
all cases, the changes are to comment docs, mostly from Randy, in
places where there didn't seem to be anybody better to take them"
* tag 'docs-4.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fonts
MAINTAINERS: update DMAengine documentation location
dmaengine: doc: ReSTize pxa_dma doc
dmaengine: doc: ReSTize dmatest doc
dmaengine: doc: ReSTize client API doc
dmaengine: doc: ReSTize provider doc
dmaengine: doc: Add ReST style dmaengine document
ftrace/docs: Add documentation on how to use ftrace from within the kernel
bug-hunting.rst: Fix an example and a typo in a Sphinx tag
scripts: Add a script to find unused documentation
samples: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
documentation: kernel-api: add more info on bitmap functions
Documentation: fix selftests related file refs
Documentation: fix ref to power basic-pm-debugging
Documentation: fix ref to trace stm content
Documentation: fix ref to coccinelle content
Documentation: fix ref to workqueue content
Documentation: fix ref to sphinx/kerneldoc.py
Documentation: fix locking rt-mutex doc refs
docs: dev-tools: correct Coccinelle version number
...
Commit 764f80798b ("doc: Add RCU files to docbook-generation files")
added :external: options for RCU source files in the file
Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst. However, this now means nothing,
so this commit removes them.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are some good comments about bitmap operations in lib/bitmap.c
and include/linux/bitmap.h, so format them for document generation and
pull them into core-api/kernel-api.rst.
I converted the "tables" of functions from using tabs to using spaces
so that they are more readable in the source file and in the generated
output.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add the rest of the CRC library functions to kernel-api.
- try to clarify crc32() by adding '@' to a function parameter
- reorder kernel-api CRC functions to be less random
- add more CRC functions to kernel-api
- correct the function parameter names in several places
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In the kernel-api chapter, the section for Data Types only
contains "Doubly Linked Lists" and all of the function interfaces
for list management. There are no other data types in this section,
so collapse this section into "List Management Functions".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Clean up workqueue.rst:
- fix minor typos
- put '@' after `` instead of preceding them (one place)
- use "CPU" instead of "cpu" in text consistently
- quote one function name
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Nothing major. I introduced a flag collsion bug during v4.13 cycle
which is fixed in this pull request. Fortunately, the flag is for
debugging / verification and the bug isn't critical"
* 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Fix flag collision
workqueue: Use TASK_IDLE
workqueue: fix path to documentation
workqueue: doc change for ST behavior on NUMA systems
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnad:
"The main RCU related changes in this cycle were:
- Removal of spin_unlock_wait()
- SRCU updates
- RCU torture-test updates
- RCU Documentation updates
- Extend the sys_membarrier() ABI with the MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED variant
- Miscellaneous RCU fixes
- CPU-hotplug fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (63 commits)
arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions
locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions
drivers/ata: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
ipc: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
exit: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
completion: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
doc: Set down RCU's scheduling-clock-interrupt needs
doc: No longer allowed to use rcu_dereference on non-pointers
doc: Add RCU files to docbook-generation files
doc: Update memory-barriers.txt for read-to-write dependencies
doc: Update RCU documentation
membarrier: Provide expedited private command
rcu: Remove exports from rcu_idle_exit() and rcu_idle_enter()
rcu: Add warning to rcu_idle_enter() for irqs enabled
rcu: Make rcu_idle_enter() rely on callers disabling irqs
rcu: Add assertions verifying blocked-tasks list
rcu/tracing: Set disable_rcu_irq_enter on rcu_eqs_exit()
rcu: Add TPS() protection for _rcu_barrier_trace strings
rcu: Use idle versions of swait to make idle-hack clear
swait: Add idle variants which don't contribute to load average
...
Genalloc/genpool has kerneldoc comments, but nothing has ever been pulled
into the docs themselves. Here's a first attempt, repurposed from an
article I wrote at https://lwn.net/Articles/729653/.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
NUMA rework of workqueue made the combination of max_active of 1 and
WQ_UNBOUND insufficient to guarantee ST behavior system wide.
alloc_ordered_queue should now be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A set of fixes for various warnings, including the one caused by the
removal of kernel/rcu/srcu.c. Also correct a stray pointer in
memory-barriers.txt"
* tag '4.13-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix obsolete link to atomic_ops.txt
memory-barriers.txt: Fix broken link to atomic_ops.txt
docs: Turn off section numbering for the input docs
docs: Include uaccess docs from the right file
docs: Do not include from kernel/rcu/srcu.c
