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Andy Shevchenko
197bbebd25 docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
required updates to align with that work. Do it here.

Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2025-12-22 14:59:18 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1884847909 Docs: driver-api/basics: add kobject_event interfaces
Add the kernel-doc comments from lib/kobject_uevent.c to the
"Kernel objects manipulation" section of driver API Basics.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250509005538.685678-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
2025-05-19 08:02:14 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
a1d115ab6b docs: time: make separate section for time and timers
Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding
entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after
this new section so that they are all together.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.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/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-07-14 13:47:07 -06:00
Paul E. McKenney
e74f4059d1 locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation
Add the generated atomic headers to driver-api/basics.rst in order to
provide documentation for the Linux kernel's atomic operations.

At the same time, dtop the x86 atomic header, which provides kerneldoc
comments for some arch_atomic*_*() operations. The arch_atomic*_*()
operations are now purely an implenentation detail of the
raw_atomic*_*() ops, and outside of implementing the atomics, code
should use the raw_atomic*_*() forms.

[Mark: add atomic-{instrumented,long}.h, update commit message]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-27-mark.rutland@arm.com
2023-06-05 09:57:24 +02:00
Kees Cook
31970608a6 overflow: Fix kern-doc markup for functions
Fix the kern-doc markings for several of the overflow helpers and move
their location into the core kernel API documentation, where it belongs
(it's not driver-specific).

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2022-10-25 14:57:42 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
a57c3522e8 docs: basics.rst: avoid duplicated C function declaration
pci_device_id is already documented at pci.rst:

	./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'PCI/pci'.
	Declaration is 'pci_device_id'.

The kstrtol and kstrtoul are already at kernel-api:

	./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'kstrtoul'.
	./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'kstrtol'.

And the printk is already defined at printk-basics:

	./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/printk-basics'.
	Declaration is 'printk'.

So, exclude those identifiers from basirs.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-15 07:49:45 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
044248db5d docs: basics.rst: get rid of rcu kernel-doc macros
Those are already defined at kernel-api.rst, as part of the
synchronization primitives chapter.

This solves several Sphinx 3 warnings, like:

	.../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'rcu_idle_enter'.
	.../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'rcu_idle_exit'.
	.../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'rcu_is_watching'.
	.../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'call_rcu'.
	.../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'.
	Declaration is 'synchronize_rcu'.
	...

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-15 07:49:42 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c9e3d519ee docs: basics.rst: move kernel-doc workqueue markups to workqueue.rst
As there's already a rst file with workqueue markups, containing
part of them, move the other definitions, in order to avoid
warnings with Sphinx.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-15 07:49:41 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet
a5f6f88c3d docs: Do not seek comments in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
There are no kerneldoc comments in this file, so do not attempt to
include them in the docs build.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-24 14:23:40 -06:00
Kees Cook
84253c8be3 docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
As discussed in the "API replacement/deprecation" thread[1], this makes
an effort to document what things shouldn't get (re)added to the kernel,
by introducing Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005282.html

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-18 12:22:43 -06:00
Elena Reshetova
b6e859f6cd docs: refcount_t documentation
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>
2017-12-11 14:37:11 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
b18b12ae60 docs: Do not include kerneldoc comments from kernel/sys.c
...because there are none there, and I cannot figure out what would ever
have been of interest there.  This eliminates this warning:

    ./kernel/sys.c:1: warning: no structured comments found

from the build.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17 14:05:36 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
127d4b3764 docs: Get module_init() docs from module.h
The docs build complains:

    ./include/linux/init.h:1: warning: no structured comments found

The problem is that the comments in question were moved to module.h in
commit 0fd972a7d9 (module: relocate module_init from init.h to
module.h).  Fix basics.rst to match.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17 13:55:58 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
ecebcd4da6 docs: Do not include from kernel/rcu/srcu.c
That file went away with commit bd8cc5a062 (srcu: Remove Classic SRCU)
during the 4.13 merge window, leading to errors like:

  Error: Cannot open file ./kernel/rcu/srcu.c

during the docs build.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-04 13:16:41 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d76a085bc8 driver-api/basics.rst: add device table header
The structs there at device table are used by other documentation
at the Kernel. So, add it to the driver API.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-04-11 14:35:28 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
dcec3c8c9a docs: split up the driver book
We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so
that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read
directly as plain files.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-22 14:42:08 -06:00