In order to make sure that a timer is not re-armed after it is stopped
before freeing, a new shutdown state is added to the timer code. The API
timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() must be called before the
object that holds the timer can be freed.
Update the documentation to reflect this new workflow.
[ tglx: Updated to the new semantics and updated the zh_CN version ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110064147.712934793@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.375284489@linutronix.de
Adjust to the new preferred function names.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.075320635@linutronix.de
del_timer_sync() does not return the number of times it tried to delete the
timer which rearms itself. It's clearly documented:
The function returns whether it has deactivated a pending timer or not.
This part of the documentation is from 2003 where del_timer_sync() really
returned the number of deletion attempts for unknown reasons. The code
was rewritten in 2005, but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201624.452282769@linutronix.de
Rusty's kernel-hacking guides provide important information, however
they are written in a narrative style that some readers may interpret as
off-putting. Since the goal is to make kernel documentation accessible
to as many new developers as possible, it's best to avoid the turns of
phrase that require a specific cultural context to properly understand.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Since the futex code was restructured, there's no futex.c file anymore
and the implementation is split in various files. Point kernel-doc
references to the new files.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211012135549.14451-1-andrealmeid@collabora.com
Remove inappropriate sexual (and ableist) text from the locking
documentation, aligning it with the kernel code-of-conduct. As the text
was unrelated to locking, this change streamlines the document and
improves readability.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903151826.6300-1-alyssa@rosenzweig.io
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Remove the f-bomb from locking.rst. Let's have a moment of silence,
though, as we mark the passing of the last of Rusty's once plentiful
profanities in this venerable document.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205115951.1276526-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
During the process of converting the documentation to reST, some links
were converted using the following wrong syntax (and sometimes using %20
instead of spaces):
`Display text <#section-name-in-html>`__
This syntax isn't valid according to the docutils' spec [1], but more
importantly, it is specific to HTML, since it uses '#' to link to an
HTML anchor.
The right syntax would instead use a docutils hyperlink reference as the
embedded URI to point to the section [2], that is:
`Display text <Section Name_>`__
This syntax works in both HTML and PDF.
The LaTeX toolchain doesn't mind the HTML anchor syntax when generating
the pdf documentation (make pdfdocs), that is, the build succeeds but
the links don't work, but that syntax causes errors when trying to build
using the not-yet-merged rst2pdf:
ValueError: format not resolved, probably missing URL scheme or undefined destination target for 'Forcing%20Quiescent%20States'
So, use the correct syntax in order to have it work in all different
output formats.
[1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#reference-names
[2]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#embedded-uris-and-aliases
Fixes: ccc9971e21 ("docs: rcu: convert some articles from html to ReST")
Fixes: c8cce10a62 ("docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst")
Fixes: e548cdeffc ("docs-rst: convert kernel-locking to ReST")
Fixes: 7ddedebb03 ("ALSA: doc: ReSTize writing-an-alsa-driver document")
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201228144537.135353-1-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel doc tooling knows how to do this itself so drop this markup
throughout this file to simplify.
Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200318174133.160206-3-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the
kernel development book where it belongs.
Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly
parse the text file, as they're already in good shape,
not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Since strlcpy is deprecated, the documentation shouldn't suggest using
it. This patch fixes the examples to use strscpy instead. It also uses
sizeof instead of underlying constants as far as possible, to simplify
future changes to the corresponding data structures.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch includes the kernel-hacking translation in Italian (both
hacking.rst and locking.rst).
It adds also the anchors for the english kernel-hacking documents.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Two jump tags were misspelled, leading to non-working cross-reference
links.
Reported-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Correct a few minor issues with ReST notation used on
this file (produced by an automatic tool).
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Those tables have a "caption" at the end, but ReST
actually expects it on a different way.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Use a different markup for this table, in order to make it
smaller when seeing in text mode.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
- Manually adjust tables with got broken by conversion
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Alexander Sverdlin