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Federico Vaga
fbf7c7e046 doc: fix typo in PGP guide
Fix typo in the GPG guide for maintainers

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-30 06:23:20 -06:00
Tobin C. Harding
49afe7e993 docs: Fix spelling mistake
Documentation contains a spelling mistake / typo.

s/descibed/described/

Fix spelling mistake.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-09 15:14:44 -06:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
ad4b009f2d Documentation: kernel-docs: Remove entry for vfs.txt
It's unnecessary to point to an external mirror of the Documentation
directory.

Jonathan Corbet writes in favor of removing this entry, instead of
moving it under "Docs at the Linux Kernel tree":

> We don't want to turn kernel-docs.rst into yet another out-of-date
> index for the rest of Documentation/, and the removal of the external
> URL takes away the only bit of additional information that this entry
> offers.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-08 16:05:18 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
72deb455b5 block: remove CONFIG_LBDAF
Currently support for 64-bit sector_t and blkcnt_t is optional on 32-bit
architectures.  These types are required to support block device and/or
file sizes larger than 2 TiB, and have generally defaulted to on for
a long time.  Enabling the option only increases the i386 tinyconfig
size by 145 bytes, and many data structures already always use
64-bit values for their in-core and on-disk data structures anyway,
so there should not be a large change in dynamic memory usage either.

Dropping this option removes a somewhat weird non-default config that
has cause various bugs or compiler warnings when actually used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-04-06 10:48:35 -06:00
Joe Perches
bba757d857 coding-style.rst: Generic alloc functions do not need OOM logging
Generic allocation functions already emit a dump_stack()
so additional error logging isn't useful.

Document it as such and add a reference to the allocation
API.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-01 14:58:46 -06:00
Sean Christopherson
24a2bb9074 docs: Clarify the usage and sign-off requirements for Co-developed-by
The documentation for Co-developed-by is a bit light on details, e.g. it
doesn't explicitly state that:

  - Multiple Co-developed-by tags are perfectly acceptable
  - Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by must be paired together
  - SOB ordering should still follow standard sign-off procedure

Lack of explicit direction has resulted in developers taking a variety
of approaches, often lacking any intent whatsoever, e.g. scattering SOBs
willy-nilly, collecting them all at the end or the beginning, etc...
Tweak the wording to make it clear that multiple co-authors are allowed,
and document the expectation that standard sign-off procedures are to
be followed.

The use of "original author" has also led to confusion as many patches
don't have just one "original" author, e.g. when multiple developers
are involved from the genesis of the patch.  Remove all usage of
"original" and instead call out that Co-developed-by is simply a way to
provide attribution in addition to the From tag, i.e. neither tag is
intended to imply anything with regard to who did what.

Provide examples to (hopefully) eliminate any ambiguity.

Cc: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-25 10:30:32 -06:00
Tom Levy
4318f9bb73 docs: remove spaces from shell variable assignment
The instructions for generating patches are given as shell commands
with variables as placeholders. They use the syntax "SRCTREE= linux",
which is wrong for the Bourne shell family (it runs the command
"linux" with the variable "SRCTREE" set to the empty string).

Remove the spaces to avoid confusion. This breaks the pretty alignment
but helps new contributors who try to run the commands as written.

Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <tomlevy93@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-25 09:58:22 -06:00
Federico Vaga
9834857754 doc:it_IT: translations for documents in process/
Translated documents:
- stable-kernel-rules.rst
- deprecated.rst
- kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
- license-rules.rst

Added document to have valid links
- netdev-FAQ.rst

Modifications to main documentation
- add label in deprecated.rst

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-18 12:03:45 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
1a29e85750 A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents,
and more translations.  There's also some LICENSES adjustments from
 Thomas.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
  documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
  adjustments from Thomas"

* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
  docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
  Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
  doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
  docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
  Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
  docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
  doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
  doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
  Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
  scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
  doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
  Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
  doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
  doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
  perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
  perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
  perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
  perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
  sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
  docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is"
  ...
2019-03-09 09:56:17 -08:00
Alexey Brodkin
3337d5cfe5 configs: get rid of obsolete CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
This Kconfig option was removed during v4.19 development in commit
771c035372 ("deprecate the '__deprecated' attribute warnings entirely
and for good") so there's no point to keep it in defconfigs any longer.

FWIW defconfigs were patched with:
--------------------------->8----------------------
find . -name *_defconfig -exec sed -i '/CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED/d' {} \;
--------------------------->8----------------------

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128152434.41969-1-abrodkin@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
Zenghui Yu
d2b008f134 Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
As linux-5.0 is coming up soon, the howto.rst document can be
updated for the new kernel version. Instead of changing all 4.x
references to 5.x, this time we git rid of all explicit version
numbers and rework some kernel trees' name to keep the docs
current and real.

Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghuiyu96@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-04 12:47:09 -07:00
Sean Christopherson
19c3fe285c docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
...and use a commit with an obnoxiously long summary in the example to
make it abundantly clear that keeping the tag on a single line takes
priority over wrapping at 75 columns.  Without the explicit exemption,
one might assume splitting the tag is acceptable, even encouraged, e.g.
due to being conditioned by checkpatch's line length warning.

Per Stephen's scripts[1] and implied by commit bf4daf12a9 ("checkpatch:
avoid some commit message long line warnings"), splitting the 'Fixes:'
tag across multiple lines is a no-no, presumably because parsing multi-
line tags is unnecessarily painful.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190216183433.71b7cfa7@canb.auug.org.au

Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22 08:56:23 -07:00
Federico Vaga
61ab9fecaf doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
The patches fixes some typos in process/license-rules.rst

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22 08:38:15 -07:00
Federico Vaga
1c7f86cbce doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
The following patch forgot to remove a reference to the -git
patches

commit 2c71d305ca ("docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches")

This patch complete the removal and update all translations

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22 08:35:27 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
8a3680e216 Merge branch 'docs-5.0-fix' into docs-next
Pick up Arnd's fix here as well.
2019-02-17 15:43:16 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
0358affb5c Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x
As linux-5.0.x is coming up soon, the documentation should match,
in particular the README.rst file, so change all 4.x references
accordingly. There was a mix of lowercase and uppercase X here,
which I changed to using lowercase consistently.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17 15:41:05 -07:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
2c71d305ca docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches
As can be seen by clicking around the timeline on web.archive.org[1],
there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org since release 3.1.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103073843/http://www.kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-11 08:30:06 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
bf7fbeeae6 module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity
The original MODULE_LICENSE string for kernel modules licensed under the
GPL v2 (only / or later) was simply "GPL", which was - and still is -
completely sufficient for the purpose of module loading and checking
whether the module is free software or proprietary.

In January 2003 this was changed with commit 3344ea3ad4b7 ("[PATCH]
MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL support"). This commit can be found in
the history git repository which holds the 1:1 import of Linus' bitkeeper
repository:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=3344ea3ad4b7c302c846a680dbaeedf96ed45c02

The main intention of the patch was to refuse linking proprietary modules
against symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() at module load time.

As a completely undocumented side effect it also introduced the distinction
between "GPL" and "GPL v2" MODULE_LICENSE() strings:

 *      "GPL"                           [GNU Public License v2 or later]
 *      "GPL v2"                        [GNU Public License v2]
 *      "GPL and additional rights"     [GNU Public License v2 rights and more]
 *      "Dual BSD/GPL"                  [GNU Public License v2
 *                                       or BSD license choice]
 *      "Dual MPL/GPL"                  [GNU Public License v2
 *                                       or Mozilla license choice]

This distinction was and still is wrong in several aspects:

 1) It broke all modules which were using the "GPL" string in the
    MODULE_LICENSE() already and were licensed under GPL v2 only.

    A quick license scan over the tree at that time shows that at least 480
    out of 1484 modules have been affected by this change back then. The
    number is probably way higher as this was just a quick check for
    clearly identifiable license information.

    There was exactly ONE instance of a "GPL v2" module license string in
    the kernel back then - drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c which
    otherwise had no license information at all. There is no indication
    that the change above is any way related to this driver. The change
    happend with the 2.4.11 release which was on Oct. 9 2001 - so quite
    some time before the above commit. Unfortunately there is no trace on
    the intertubes to any discussion of this.

 2) The dual licensed strings became ill defined as well because following
    the "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" distinction all dual licensed (or additional
    rights) MODULE_LICENSE strings would either require those dual licensed
    modules to be licensed under GPL v2 or later or just be unspecified for
    the dual licensing case. Neither choice is coherent with the GPL
    distinction.

Due to the lack of a proper changelog and no real discussion on the patch
submission other than a few implementation details, it's completely unclear
why this distinction was introduced at all. Other than the comment in the
module header file exists no documentation for this at all.

From a license compliance and license scanning POV this distinction is a
total nightmare.

As of 5.0-rc2 2873 out of 9200 instances of MODULE_LICENSE() strings are
conflicting with the actual license in the source code (either SPDX or
license boilerplate/reference). A comparison between the scan of the
history tree and a scan of current Linus tree shows to the extent that the
git rename detection over Linus tree grafted with the history tree is
halfways complete that almost none of the files which got broken in 2003
have been cleaned up vs. the MODULE_LICENSE string. So subtracting those
480 known instances from the conflicting 2800 of today more than 25% of the
module authors got it wrong and it's a high propability that a large
portion of the rest just got it right by chance.

There is no value for the module loader to convey the detailed license
information as the only decision to be made is whether the module is free
software or not.

The "and additional rights", "BSD" and "MPL" strings are not conclusive
license information either. So there is no point in trying to make the GPL
part conclusive and exact. As shown above it's already non conclusive for
dual licensing and incoherent with a large portion of the module source.

As an unintended side effect this distinction causes a major headache for
license compliance, license scanners and the ongoing effort to clean up the
license mess of the kernel.

Therefore remove the well meant, but ill defined, distinction between "GPL"
and "GPL v2" and document that:

  - "GPL" and "GPL v2" both express that the module is licensed under GPLv2
    (without a distinction of 'only' and 'or later') and is therefore kernel
    license compliant.

  - None of the MODULE_LICENSE strings can be used for expressing or
    determining the exact license

  - Their sole purpose is to decide whether the module is free software or
    not.

Add a MODULE_LICENSE subsection to the license rule documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
[jc: Did s/merily/merely/ ]
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-11 08:17:43 -07:00
Adam Borowski
8f7e6d134b doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible
Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are
all fine, not just GPL.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
[jc: fixed conflict and refilled paragraph]
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01 16:19:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a41e8f25fa stable-kernel-rules.rst: add link to networking patch queue
The networking maintainer keeps a public list of the patches being
queued up for the next round of stable releases.  Be sure to check there
before asking for a patch to be applied so that you do not waste
people's time.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01 16:11:55 -07:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
19c1d46dfc doc: Change LXR references to elixir.bootlin.com
Recently, Free Electrons was renamed to Bootlin[1]. Less recently, the
Linux Cross Reference (LXR) at lxr.free-electrons.com was replaced by
Elixir[2], and lxr.free-electrons.com redirected first to
elixir.free-electrons.com and now to elixir.bootlin.com.

[1]: https://bootlin.com/blog/free-electrons-becomes-bootlin/
[2]: https://github.com/free-electrons/elixir

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01 16:05:03 -07:00
Jason Gunthorpe
7967656ffb coding-style: Clarify the expectations around bool
There has been some confusion since checkpatch started warning about bool
use in structures, and people have been avoiding using it.

Many people feel there is still a legitimate place for bool in structures,
so provide some guidance on bool usage derived from the entire thread that
spawned the checkpatch warning.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFwVZk1OfB9T2v014PTAKFhtVan_Zj2dOjnCy3x6E4UJfA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-20 19:07:39 -07:00
Federico Vaga
b04c11c988 doc:process: add missing internal link in stable-kernel-rules
Keep consistent the document. In the document, option references
are always linked, except for the one I fixed with this patch

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-20 19:00:02 -07:00
Federico Vaga
1d2375f048 doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense'
The link referred by the note can't be retrieved: this patch just
remove that old note.

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-20 18:41:39 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7fbc258fea Documentation: fix coding-style.rst Sphinx warning
Fix Sphinx warning in coding-style.rst:

Documentation/process/coding-style.rst:446: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-14 08:31:57 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
2fec7b3309 Documentation/CodingStyle: Use directory-local variables for emacs settings
In emacs 23.1 support for directory-local variables was added (see also
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html).
Simplify the settings in coding-style.rst by using that feature.
Additionally, do not inherit any settings from emacs' linux coding style
to minimize dependencies on the version of emacs that is being used.

I have verified with several large and nontrivial kernel source files
that the new settings format code according to what checkpatch expects.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com>
Cc: Tiago Natel de Moura <tiago4orion@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-07 15:32:49 -07:00
Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz
ae67ee6c5e docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
The accepted terminology will be Co-developed-by therefore lose the
capital letter from now on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544808928-20002-2-git-send-email-jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-04 13:13:48 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3fe5dbfef4 Documentation/process/coding-style.rst: don't use "extern" with function prototypes
`extern' with function prototypes makes lines longer and creates more
characters on the screen.

Do not bug people with checkpatch.pl warnings for now as fallout can be
devastating.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181101134153.GA29267@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-04 13:13:45 -08:00
Federico Vaga
f77af637f2 doc:process: add links where missing
Some documents are refering to others without links. With this
patch I add those missing links.

This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-06 10:21:19 -07:00
Federico Vaga
edba5eecfd doc:it_IT: add some process/* translations
This patch does not translate entirely the subfolder "process/"
but only part of it (to begin with).

In order to avoid broken links, I included empty documents
for those which are not yet translated.

In order to be able to refer to all documents in "process/",
I added a sphinx label to those which had not one.

Translated documents:
- howto
- 1.Intro
- clang-format
- coding-style
- kernel-driver-statement
- magic-number
- volatile-considered-harmful
- development-process

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Alessia Mantegazza <amantegazza@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-20 09:11:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e468f5c06b The Compiler Attributes series
This is an effort to disentangle the include/linux/compiler*.h headers
 and bring them up to date.
 
 The main idea behind the series is to use feature checking macros
 (i.e. __has_attribute) instead of compiler version checks (e.g. GCC_VERSION),
 which are compiler-agnostic (so they can be shared, reducing the size
 of compiler-specific headers) and version-agnostic.
 
 Other related improvements have been performed in the headers as well,
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 This series should also help the efforts to support compiling the kernel
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Merge tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-4.20-rc1' of https://github.com/ojeda/linux

Pull compiler attribute updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "This is an effort to disentangle the include/linux/compiler*.h headers
  and bring them up to date.

  The main idea behind the series is to use feature checking macros
  (i.e. __has_attribute) instead of compiler version checks (e.g.
  GCC_VERSION), which are compiler-agnostic (so they can be shared,
  reducing the size of compiler-specific headers) and version-agnostic.

  Other related improvements have been performed in the headers as well,
  which on top of the use of __has_attribute it has amounted to a
  significant simplification of these headers (e.g. GCC_VERSION is now
  only guarding a few non-attribute macros).

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  kernel with clang and icc. A fair amount of documentation and comments
  have also been added, clarified or removed; and the headers are now
  more readable, which should help kernel developers in general.

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  series has also triggered Sparse to gain the ability to recognize
  __has_attribute on its own.

  Finally, the __nonstring variable attribute series has been also
  applied on top; plus two related patches from Nick Desaulniers for
  unreachable() that came a bit afterwards"

* tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-4.20-rc1' of https://github.com/ojeda/linux:
  compiler-gcc: remove comment about gcc 4.5 from unreachable()
  compiler.h: update definition of unreachable()
  Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition
  Compiler Attributes: auxdisplay: panel: use __nonstring
  Compiler Attributes: enable -Wstringop-truncation on W=1 (gcc >= 8)
  Compiler Attributes: add support for __nonstring (gcc >= 8)
  Compiler Attributes: add MAINTAINERS entry
  Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst
  Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h
  Compiler Attributes: KENTRY used twice the "used" attribute
  Compiler Attributes: use feature checks instead of version checks
  Compiler Attributes: add missing SPDX ID in compiler_types.h
  Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests
  Compiler Attributes: homogenize __must_be_array
  Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded tests
  Compiler Attributes: always use the extra-underscores syntax
  Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes
2018-11-01 18:34:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
01aa9d518e This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates
 including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and
 unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more
 MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and
 corrections.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...
2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f3f76d6401 Code of Conduct: Change the contact email address
The contact point for the kernel's Code of Conduct should now be the
Code of Conduct Committee, not the full TAB.  Change the email address
in the file to properly reflect this.

Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22 07:33:36 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d117a85478 Code of Conduct Interpretation: Put in the proper URL for the committee
There was a blank <URL> reference for how to find the Code of Conduct
Committee.  Fix that up by pointing it to the correct kernel.org website
page location.

Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22 07:33:36 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f7e5858432 Code of Conduct: Provide links between the two documents
Create a link between the Code of Conduct and the Code of Conduct
Interpretation so that people can see that they are related.

Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22 07:33:36 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d84feee76f Code of Conduct Interpretation: Properly reference the TAB correctly
We use the term "TAB" before defining it later in the document.  Fix
that up by defining it at the first location.

Reported-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22 07:33:35 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
79dbeed36f Code of Conduct Interpretation: Add document explaining how the Code of Conduct is to be interpreted
The Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct is a general document meant to
provide a set of rules for almost any open source community.  Every
open-source community is unique and the Linux kernel is no exception.
Because of this, this document describes how we in the Linux kernel
community will interpret it.  We also do not expect this interpretation
to be static over time, and will adjust it as needed.

This document was created with the input and feedback of the TAB as well
as many current kernel maintainers.

Co-Developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-Developed-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lütke-Stetzkamp <christian@lkamp.de>
Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <kdave@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Mishi Choudhary <mishi@linux.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22 07:33:35 +01:00
Chris Mason
c1d1ba844f Code of conduct: Fix wording around maintainers enforcing the code of conduct
As it was originally worded, this paragraph requires maintainers to
enforce the code of conduct, or face potential repercussions.  It sends
the wrong message, when really we just want maintainers to be part of
the solution and not violate the code of conduct themselves.

Removing it doesn't limit our ability to enforce the code of conduct,
and we can still encourage maintainers to help maintain high standards
for the level of discourse in their subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Lütke-Stetzkamp <christian@lkamp.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <kdave@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
Acked-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22 07:33:35 +01:00
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
Guillaume Dore
418ca3de75 doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
There was a typo in adding-syscalls.rst that could mislead developers
to add a C filename in a makefile instead of an object filename.
This error, while not keeping developers from contributing could slow
the development process down by introducing build errors.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Dore <corwin@poussif.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-18 12:04:40 -06:00
Miguel Ojeda
303d22c5fc Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # on top of v4.19-rc5, clang 7
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
2018-09-30 20:14:04 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
8a104f8b58 Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.
The Code of Conflict is not achieving its implicit goal of fostering
civility and the spirit of 'be excellent to each other'.  Explicit
guidelines have demonstrated success in other projects and other areas
of the kernel.

Here is a Code of Conduct statement for the wider kernel.  It is based
on the Contributor Covenant as described at www.contributor-covenant.org

From this point forward, we should abide by these rules in order to help
make the kernel community a welcoming environment to participate in.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lxom.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-09-16 11:42:28 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada
fd65465b70 kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config
Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
 "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
  location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this
  case, pkg-config is useless.  pkg-config is needed only when
  libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but
  it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines
  where make menuconfig would be possibly run."

For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
for finding the installation paths of the required packages.

Fixes: 4ab3b80159 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
2018-09-03 02:13:48 +09:00
Markus Heiser
9799445af1 docs: tidy up TOCs and refs to license-rules.rst
The documentation and TOCs are organized in a manner of a tree. Adding a TOC to
the root, which refers to a file which is located in a subfolder forms a
grid. Those TOCs are a bit confusing and thats why we get additional error
messages while building partial documentation::

  $ make SPHINXDIRS=process htmldocs
  ...
  checking consistency... Documentation/process/license-rules.rst: \
  WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree

To fix it, the *root-license-TOC* is replaced by a reference and the
'license-roles.txt' is added to the Documentation/process/index.rst TOC.

BTW: there was an old licences remark in Documentation/process/howto.rst which
is also updated, mentioning SPDX and pointing to the license-rules.rst

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-31 16:50:50 -06:00
Akinobu Mita
cb95ff7da1 docs: fix typo in table describing 4.16 development cycle
Fix s/4.17/4.16/ typo.

Fixes: 8962e40c19 ("docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables")
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-31 16:28:06 -06:00
Joe Perches
cafa0010cd Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6
Various architectures fail to build properly with older versions of the
gcc compiler.

An example from Guenter Roeck in thread [1]:
>
>   In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:17:0,
>                    from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7,
>                    from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10,
>                    from arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:32:
>   ./include/linux/mm_types.h:497:16: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct
>
> This is just an example with gcc 4.5.1 for or32. I have seen the problem
> with gcc 4.4 (for unicore32) as well.

So update the minimum required version of gcc to 4.6.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/

Miscellanea:

 - Update Documentation/process/changes.rst

 - Remove and consolidate version test blocks in compiler-gcc.h for
   versions lower than 4.6

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-20 14:12:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9a76aba02a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   - Gustavo A. R. Silva keeps working on the implicit switch fallthru
     changes.

   - Support 802.11ax High-Efficiency wireless in cfg80211 et al, From
     Luca Coelho.

   - Re-enable ASPM in r8169, from Kai-Heng Feng.

   - Add virtual XFRM interfaces, which avoids all of the limitations of
     existing IPSEC tunnels. From Steffen Klassert.

   - Convert GRO over to use a hash table, so that when we have many
     flows active we don't traverse a long list during accumluation.

   - Many new self tests for routing, TC, tunnels, etc. Too many
     contributors to mention them all, but I'm really happy to keep
     seeing this stuff.

   - Hardware timestamping support for dpaa_eth/fsl-fman from Yangbo Lu.

   - Lots of cleanups and fixes in L2TP code from Guillaume Nault.

   - Add IPSEC offload support to netdevsim, from Shannon Nelson.

   - Add support for slotting with non-uniform distribution to netem
     packet scheduler, from Yousuk Seung.

   - Add UDP GSO support to mlx5e, from Boris Pismenny.

   - Support offloading of Team LAG in NFP, from John Hurley.

   - Allow to configure TX queue selection based upon RX queue, from
     Amritha Nambiar.

   - Support ethtool ring size configuration in aquantia, from Anton
     Mikaev.

   - Support DSCP and flowlabel per-transport in SCTP, from Xin Long.

   - Support list based batching and stack traversal of SKBs, this is
     very exciting work. From Edward Cree.

   - Busyloop optimizations in vhost_net, from Toshiaki Makita.

   - Introduce the ETF qdisc, which allows time based transmissions. IGB
     can offload this in hardware. From Vinicius Costa Gomes.

   - Add parameter support to devlink, from Moshe Shemesh.

   - Several multiplication and division optimizations for BPF JIT in
     nfp driver, from Jiong Wang.

   - Lots of prepatory work to make more of the packet scheduler layer
     lockless, when possible, from Vlad Buslov.

   - Add ACK filter and NAT awareness to sch_cake packet scheduler, from
     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.

   - Support regions and region snapshots in devlink, from Alex Vesker.

   - Allow to attach XDP programs to both HW and SW at the same time on
     a given device, with initial support in nfp. From Jakub Kicinski.

   - Add TLS RX offload and support in mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin.

   - Use PHYLIB in r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit.

   - All sorts of changes to support Spectrum 2 in mlxsw driver, from
     Ido Schimmel.

   - PTP support in mv88e6xxx DSA driver, from Andrew Lunn.

   - Make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option more accurate, from Jon
     Maxwell.

   - Support for templates in packet scheduler classifier, from Jiri
     Pirko.

   - IPV6 support in RDS, from Ka-Cheong Poon.

   - Native tproxy support in nf_tables, from Máté Eckl.

   - Maintain IP fragment queue in an rbtree, but optimize properly for
     in-order frags. From Peter Oskolkov.

   - Improvde handling of ACKs on hole repairs, from Yuchung Cheng"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1996 commits)
  bpf: test: fix spelling mistake "REUSEEPORT" -> "REUSEPORT"
  hv/netvsc: Fix NULL dereference at single queue mode fallback
  net: filter: mark expected switch fall-through
  xen-netfront: fix warn message as irq device name has '/'
  cxgb4: Add new T5 PCI device ids 0x50af and 0x50b0
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: missing unlock on error path
  rds: fix building with IPV6=m
  inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text_addr
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bitwise vs logical bug
  net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd()
  ieee802154: hwsim: using right kind of iteration
  net: hns3: Add vlan filter setting by ethtool command -K
  net: hns3: Set tx ring' tc info when netdev is up
  net: hns3: Remove tx ring BD len register in hns3_enet
  net: hns3: Fix desc num set to default when setting channel
  net: hns3: Fix for phy link issue when using marvell phy driver
  net: hns3: Fix for information of phydev lost problem when down/up
  net: hns3: Fix for command format parsing error in hclge_is_all_function_id_zero
  net: hns3: Add support for serdes loopback selftest
  bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack
  ...
2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
01f0e5cded Kconfig updates for v4.19
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   installed
 
 - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics
 
 - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead
   of Makefile
 
 - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked
 
 - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
   include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory
 
 - do not try to update the .config when running install targets
 
 - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files
 
 - misc cleanups and fixes
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not
   installed

 - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics

 - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of
   Makefile

 - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked

 - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
   include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory

 - do not try to update the .config when running install targets

 - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files

 - misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: remove P_ENV property type
  kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function
  kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol
  init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname
  Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory
  kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets
  kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease'
  kbuild: do not update config when running install targets
  kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target
  kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile
  kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing
  kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count
  kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself
  kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config
  kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c
  kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c
  kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt
  kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback()
  kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE
  kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
2018-08-15 12:50:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e026bcc561 Kbuild updates for v4.19
- verify depmod is installed before modules_install
 
 - support build salt in case build ids must be unique between builds
 
 - allow users to specify additional host compiler flags via HOST*FLAGS,
   and rename internal variables to KBUILD_HOST*FLAGS
 
 - update buildtar script to drop vax support, add arm64 support
 
 - update builddeb script for better debarch support
 
 - document the pit-fall of if_changed usage
 
 - fix parallel build of UML with O= option
 
 - make 'samples' target depend on headers_install to fix build errors
 
 - remove deprecated host-progs variable
 
 - add a new coccinelle script for refcount_t vs atomic_t check
 
 - improve double-test coccinelle script
 
 - misc cleanups and fixes
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - verify depmod is installed before modules_install

 - support build salt in case build ids must be unique between builds

 - allow users to specify additional host compiler flags via HOST*FLAGS,
   and rename internal variables to KBUILD_HOST*FLAGS

 - update buildtar script to drop vax support, add arm64 support

 - update builddeb script for better debarch support

 - document the pit-fall of if_changed usage

 - fix parallel build of UML with O= option

 - make 'samples' target depend on headers_install to fix build errors

 - remove deprecated host-progs variable

 - add a new coccinelle script for refcount_t vs atomic_t check

 - improve double-test coccinelle script

 - misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'kbuild-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits)
  coccicheck: return proper error code on fail
  Coccinelle: doubletest: reduce side effect false positives
  kbuild: remove deprecated host-progs variable
  kbuild: make samples really depend on headers_install
  um: clean up archheaders recipe
  kbuild: add %asm-generic to no-dot-config-targets
  um: fix parallel building with O= option
  scripts: Add Python 3 support to tracing/draw_functrace.py
  builddeb: Add automatic support for sh{3,4}{,eb} architectures
  builddeb: Add automatic support for riscv* architectures
  builddeb: Add automatic support for m68k architecture
  builddeb: Add automatic support for or1k architecture
  builddeb: Add automatic support for sparc64 architecture
  builddeb: Add automatic support for mips{,64}r6{,el} architectures
  builddeb: Add automatic support for mips64el architecture
  builddeb: Add automatic support for ppc64 and powerpcspe architectures
  builddeb: Introduce functions to simplify kconfig tests in set_debarch
  builddeb: Drop check for 32-bit s390
  builddeb: Change architecture detection fallback to use dpkg-architecture
  builddeb: Skip architecture detection when KBUILD_DEBARCH is set
  ...
2018-08-15 12:09:03 -07:00
Fox Foster
ee97d8abac Remove gendered language from management style documentation
This small commit replaces gendered pronouns for neutral ones.

Signed-off-by: Fox Foster <fox@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-10 16:06:56 -06:00
Tobin C. Harding
287f4fa99a docs: Update references to netdev-FAQ
File 'Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt' has been converted to RST
format.  We should update all links/references to point to the new file.

Update references to netdev-FAQ

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-26 21:27:54 -07:00
Tobin C. Harding
f58252cdc0 docs: Add rest label the_canonical_patch_format
In preparation to convert Documentation/network/netdev-FAQ.rst to
restructured text format.  We would like to be able to reference 'the
canonical patch format' section.

Add rest label: 'the_canonical_patch_format'.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-26 21:27:54 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
4ab3b80159 kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure
that other required files are present and to determine build flags
settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present.
Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update
Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'.

Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-07-18 01:18:09 +09:00
Randy Dunlap
934193a654 kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed
Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed.
This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a
("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools").

Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to
kmod instead of module-init-tools.

Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-07-18 01:18:05 +09:00
Michael Rodin
dad0513954 Documentation/process/howto.rst: add a missing cross-reference
Add a missing cross-reference from Documentation/process/howto.rst
to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <michael-git@rodin.online>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-29 09:24:15 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
cccd289f12 Documentation/process: fix reST table border error
Fix reST error in Documentation/process/:

Documentation/process/2.Process.rst:131: ERROR: Malformed table.
Bottom/header table border does not match top border.

Fixes: 8962e40c19 ("docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables")

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Tim Bird <tbird20d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-26 09:01:27 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
eeee3149aa There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
including:
 
  - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
    memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
 
  - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to
    keep it updated.
 
  - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX
    tags.
 
  - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a
    fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/
 
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
  including:

   - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
     memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.

   - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
     to keep it updated.

   - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
     SPDX tags.

   - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
     involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
     Documentation/

  ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
  Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
  docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
  docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
  docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
  doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
  docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
  docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
  docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
  docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
  Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
  Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
  docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
  docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
  mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
  w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
  Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
  docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
  Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
  Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
  ...
2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
Tim Bird
8962e40c19 docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
Every once in a while, we should update the examples
to reflect more recent kernel versions.

Update the tables describing kernel releases, the merge window,
and current longterm maintained kernel, from 2.6-era kernels
to 4.x.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-23 16:25:20 -06:00
Justin Skists
f27e1d244b Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
Trivial patch to adjust the text formatting to wrap at 80 columns. No
actual content has changed.

Signed-off-by: Justin Skists <justin.skists@juzza.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-10 15:42:41 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2d93404f35 docs: */index.rst: Add newer documents to their respective index.rst
A number of new docs were added, but they're currently not on
the index.rst from the session they're supposed to be, causing
Sphinx warnings.

Add them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08 09:57:35 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox
3b44395559 Docs: tell maintainers to put [GIT PULL] in their subject lines
It seems that Linus looks for [GIT PULL] in subject lines to ensure that
pull requests don't get buried in the noise during merge windows.  Update
the docs to reflect that.

[jc: From an impromptu post from willy, thus no SOB]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16 14:42:58 -06:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
1ba2211c52 Documentation/process: updates to the PGP guide
Small tweaks to the Maintainer PGP guide:

 - Use --quick-addkey command that is compatible between GnuPG-2.2 and
   GnuPG-2.1 (which many people still have)
 - Add a note about the Nitrokey program
 - Warn that some devices can't change the passphrase before there are
   keys on the card (specifically, Nitrokeys)
 - Link to the GnuPG wiki page about gpg-agent forwarding over ssh
 - Tell git to use gpgv2 instead of legacy gpgv when verifying signed
   tags or commits

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16 14:03:50 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
edf5c17d86 staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removal
There were some documentation locations that irda was mentioned, as well
as an old MAINTAINERS entry and the networking sysctl entries.  Clean
these all out as this stuff really is finally gone.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-16 11:26:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9fb71c2f23 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes and updates for x86:

   - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA
     rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned
     false

   - Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid
     APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible
     space.

   - Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535
     driver.

   - Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption
     has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite
     the reduced bit information with the original value.

   - Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture
     specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the
     same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based
     syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in
     the entry patch to the lower registers"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks
  x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption
  x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration
  swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops
  syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers
  syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32
  syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls
  syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y
  x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number
  x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging
  x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
Miguel Ojeda
d4ef8d3ff0 clang-format: add configuration file
clang-format is a tool to format C/C++/...  code according to a set of
rules and heuristics.  Like most tools, it is not perfect nor covers
every single case, but it is good enough to be helpful.

In particular, it is useful for quickly re-formatting blocks of code
automatically, for reviewing full files in order to spot coding style
mistakes, typos and possible improvements.  It is also handy for sorting
``#includes``, for aligning variables and macros, for reflowing text and
other similar tasks.  It also serves as a teaching tool/guide for
newcomers.

The tool itself has been already included in the repositories of popular
Linux distributions for a long time.  The rules in this file are
intended for clang-format >= 4, which is easily available in most
distributions.

This commit adds the configuration file that contains the rules that the
tool uses to know how to format the code according to the kernel coding
style.  This gives us several advantages:

  * clang-format works out of the box with reasonable defaults;
    avoiding that everyone has to re-do the configuration.

  * Everyone agrees (eventually) on what is the most useful default
    configuration for most of the kernel.

  * If it becomes commonplace among kernel developers, clang-format
    may feel compelled to support us better. They already recognize
    the Linux kernel and its style in their documentation and in one
    of the style sub-options.

Some of clang-format's features relevant for the kernel are:

  * Uses clang's tooling support behind the scenes to parse and rewrite
    the code. It is not based on ad-hoc regexps.

  * Supports reasonably well the Linux kernel coding style.

  * Fast enough to be used at the press of a key.

  * There are already integrations (either built-in or third-party)
    for many common editors used by kernel developers (e.g. vim,
    emacs, Sublime, Atom...) that allow you to format an entire file
    or, more usefully, just your selection.

  * Able to parse unified diffs -- you can, for instance, reformat
    only the lines changed by a git commit.

  * Able to reflow text comments as well.

  * Widely supported and used by hundreds of developers in highly
    complex projects and organizations (e.g. the LLVM project itself,
    Chromium, WebKit, Google, Mozilla...). Therefore, it will be
    supported for a long time.

See more information about the tool at:

    https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
    https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180318171632.qfkemw3mwbcukth6@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
5ac9efa3c5 syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
Tidy the naming convention for compat syscall subs. Hints which describe
the purpose of the stub go in front and receive a double underscore to
denote that they are generated on-the-fly by the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
macro.

For the generic case, this means:

t            kernel_waitid	# common C function (see kernel/exit.c)

    __do_compat_sys_waitid	# inlined helper doing the actual work
				# (takes original parameters as declared)

T   __se_compat_sys_waitid	# sign-extending C function calling inlined
				# helper (takes parameters of type long,
				# casts them to unsigned long and then to
				# the declared type)

T        compat_sys_waitid      # alias to __se_compat_sys_waitid()
				# (taking parameters as declared), to
				# be included in syscall table

For x86, the naming is as follows:

t            kernel_waitid	# common C function (see kernel/exit.c)

    __do_compat_sys_waitid	# inlined helper doing the actual work
				# (takes original parameters as declared)

t   __se_compat_sys_waitid      # sign-extending C function calling inlined
				# helper (takes parameters of type long,
				# casts them to unsigned long and then to
				# the declared type)

T __ia32_compat_sys_waitid	# IA32_EMULATION 32-bit-ptregs -> C stub,
				# calls __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be
				# included in syscall table

T  __x32_compat_sys_waitid	# x32 64-bit-ptregs -> C stub, calls
				# __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be included
				# in syscall table

If only one of IA32_EMULATION and x32 is enabled, __se_compat_sys_waitid()
may be inlined into the stub __{ia32,x32}_compat_sys_waitid().

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409105145.5364-3-linux@dominikbrodowski.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-09 16:47:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
3b24b83763 Kbuild updates for v4.17
- add a shell script to get Clang version
 
 - improve portability of build scripts
 
 - drop always-enabled CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVE and remove unused code
 
 - rename built-in.o which is now thin archive to built-in.a
 
 - process clean/build targets one by one to get along with -j option
 
 - simplify ld-option
 
 - improve building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
 
 - define KBUILD_MODNAME even for objects shared among multiple modules
 
 - avoid linking multiple instances of same objects from composite objects
 
 - move <linux/compiler_types.h> to c_flags to include it only for C files
 
 - clean-up various Makefiles
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add a shell script to get Clang version

 - improve portability of build scripts

 - drop always-enabled CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVE and remove unused code

 - rename built-in.o which is now thin archive to built-in.a

 - process clean/build targets one by one to get along with -j option

 - simplify ld-option

 - improve building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS

 - define KBUILD_MODNAME even for objects shared among multiple modules

 - avoid linking multiple instances of same objects from composite
   objects

 - move <linux/compiler_types.h> to c_flags to include it only for C
   files

 - clean-up various Makefiles

* tag 'kbuild-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  kbuild: get <linux/compiler_types.h> out of <linux/kconfig.h>
  kbuild: clean up link rule of composite modules
  kbuild: clean up archive rule of built-in.a
  kbuild: remove partial section mismatch detection for built-in.a
  net: liquidio: clean up Makefile for simpler composite object handling
  lib: zstd: clean up Makefile for simpler composite object handling
  kbuild: link $(real-obj-y) instead of $(obj-y) into built-in.a
  kbuild: rename real-objs-y/m to real-obj-y/m
  kbuild: move modname and modname-multi close to modname_flags
  kbuild: simplify modname calculation
  kbuild: fix modname for composite modules
  kbuild: define KBUILD_MODNAME even if multiple modules share objects
  kbuild: remove unnecessary $(subst $(obj)/, , ...) in modname-multi
  kbuild: Use ls(1) instead of stat(1) to obtain file size
  kbuild: link vmlinux only once for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
  kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/*
  kbuild: move CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS code unneeded for external module
  kbuild: restore autoksyms.h touch to the top Makefile
  kbuild: move 'scripts' target below
  kbuild: remove wrong 'touch' in adjust_autoksyms.sh
  ...
2018-04-03 15:51:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bb2407a721 There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time around:
- Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by Aishwarya
    Pant.
 
  - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du
 
  - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to make
    the code more readable.  It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack, though.
 
  - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time
  around:

   - Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by
     Aishwarya Pant.

   - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du

   - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to
     make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack,
     though.

   - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits)
  Documentation/process: update FUSE project website
  docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays
  dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation
  dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible
  dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels
  Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo
  Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands
  Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format
  Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval
  COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files
  COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files
  Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface
  xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt
  char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation
  acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface
  block: rbd: update sysfs interface
  Documentation/sparse: fix typo
  Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces
  docs/vm: update 00-INDEX
  kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings
  ...
2018-04-03 13:35:51 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
67a7acd377 kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions
This keeps it in line with the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() / COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
calling convention.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02 20:16:20 +02:00
Martin Kepplinger
86afad7d87 Documentation/process: update FUSE project website
According to the old project site, https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/
the project has moved to https://github.com/libfuse/ so we update the
link to point to the latest libfuse release.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-29 15:49:18 -06:00
Martin Kepplinger
738947f0f3 Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo
This fixes a little then / them confusion.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-26 08:42:05 -06:00
Nicholas Piggin
f49821ee32 kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a
Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which
is the usual extension for archive files.

This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace:

git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g'

The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid
filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2:

-libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y)))
+libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y)))

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
Dominik Brodowski
819671ff84 syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel
The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() should only be called from userspace
through kernel entry points, but not from the kernel itself. This
will allow cleanups and optimizations to the entry paths *and* to
the parts of the kernel code which currently need to pretend to be
userspace in order to make use of syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-25 18:08:51 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
88de995ccf COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files
With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file
is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE:
	LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
	LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note

It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on
those files are identical with COPYING using:

	$ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
	$ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less

Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at
the Kernel source files:
	Documentation/process/license-rules.rst

Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not
even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content
points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license.

Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly.

Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as
is, without any changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-23 12:41:35 -06:00
Gary R Hook
1dbba2cf30 Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces
Add another example of required braces when using a compound statement in
a loop.

Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-21 09:17:09 -06:00
Aaro Koskinen
b13267ba57 documentation: add my name to kernel driver statement
Add my name to kernel driver statement.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07 10:16:41 -07:00
Tobin C. Harding
82d95343af docs: add Co-Developed-by docs
When Co-Developed-by tag was added, docs were only added to
Documention/process/5.Posting.rst and were not added to
Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst

Add documentation to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
[jc: tweaked commas in the subheading]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07 10:14:46 -07:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
bcd3cf0855 Documentation/process/howto: Remove outdated info about bugzilla mailing lists
The mailing list archives[1,2] show no activity since September 2011.

[1]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/
[2]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-janitors/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-18 16:49:25 -07:00
Minghui Liu
bc0ef4a7e4 Documentation: Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing list
Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing list because the mailing list no longer exists

Signed-off-by: Minghui Liu <minghui.liu.95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-16 07:18:13 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
e474785a12 Documentation/process: Co-developed-by instead of Co-Developed-by
Up to now, all commit messages have used the "d" in lower case.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-13 14:20:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e03ab6c4ad A few late-arriving fixes, along with Konstantin's PGP document that had
no reason to wait another cycle.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A few late-arriving fixes, along with Konstantin's PGP document that
  had no reason to wait another cycle"

* tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guide
  Documentation/admin-guide: fixes for thunderbolt.rst
  Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies
  Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
  Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guide
2018-02-07 09:42:59 -08:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
78ed784519 Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guide
Based on the feedback provided:

- Uniformly use lowercase k in "Linux kernel"
- Give a one-sentence explanation of what subkeys are
- Explain what signed commits might be useful for even if upstream
  developers do not use them for much of anything
- Admonish to set up gpg-agent if signed commits are turned on in
  git config
- Fix a typo reported by Luc Van Oostenryck

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-06 16:31:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
562f36ed28 Kconfig updates for v4.16
A pretty big batch of Kconfig updates. I have to mention the lexer
 and parser of Kconfig are now built from real .l and .y sources.
 So, flex and bison are the requirement for building the kernel.
 Both of them (unlike gperf) have been stable for a long time. This
 change has been tested several weeks in linux-next, and I did not
 receive any problem report about this.
 
 Summary:
 
 - Add checks for mistakes, like the choice default is not in
   choice, help is doubled
 
 - Document data structure and complex code
 
 - Fix various memory leaks
 
 - Change Makefile to build lexer and parser instead of using
   pre-generated C files
 
 - Drop 'boolean' keyword, which is equivalent to 'bool'
 
 - Use default 'yy' prefix and remove unneeded Make variables
 
 - Fix gettext() check for xconfig
 
 - Announce that oldnoconfig will be finally removed
 
 - Make 'Selected by:' and 'Implied by' readable in help and
   search result
 
 - Hide silentoldconfig from 'make help' to stop confusing people
 
 - Fix misc things and cleanups
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "A pretty big batch of Kconfig updates.

  I have to mention the lexer and parser of Kconfig are now built from
  real .l and .y sources. So, flex and bison are the requirement for
  building the kernel. Both of them (unlike gperf) have been stable for
  a long time. This change has been tested several weeks in linux-next,
  and I did not receive any problem report about this.

  Summary:

   - add checks for mistakes, like the choice default is not in choice,
     help is doubled

   - document data structure and complex code

   - fix various memory leaks

   - change Makefile to build lexer and parser instead of using
     pre-generated C files

   - drop 'boolean' keyword, which is equivalent to 'bool'

   - use default 'yy' prefix and remove unneeded Make variables

   - fix gettext() check for xconfig

   - announce that oldnoconfig will be finally removed

   - make 'Selected by:' and 'Implied by' readable in help and search
     result

   - hide silentoldconfig from 'make help' to stop confusing people

   - fix misc things and cleanups"

* tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (37 commits)
  kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help
  kconfig: make "Selected by:" and "Implied by:" readable
  kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used
  kconfig: fix make xconfig when gettext is missing
  kconfig: Clarify menu and 'if' dependency propagation
  kconfig: Document 'if' flattening logic
  kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation
  kconfig: Document SYMBOL_OPTIONAL logic
  kbuild: remove unnecessary LEX_PREFIX and YACC_PREFIX
  kconfig: use default 'yy' prefix for lexer and parser
  kconfig: make conf_unsaved a local variable of conf_read()
  kconfig: make xfgets() really static
  kconfig: make input_mode static
  kconfig: Warn if there is more than one help text
  kconfig: drop 'boolean' keyword
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes, again
  kconfig: Remove menu_end_entry()
  kconfig: Document important expression functions
  kconfig: Document automatic submenu creation code
  kconfig: Fix choice symbol expression leak
  ...
2018-02-01 11:45:49 -08:00
Grigory Shipunov
5aa55fc2c8 Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
Kernel Glossary has moved from /Glossary to /KernelGlossary
on kernelnewbies.org. This patch corrects this link.

Signed-off-by: Grigory Shipunov <mail@oxapentane.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-01 12:08:18 -07:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
b72dde3869 Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guide
This guide is an adapted version of the more general "Protecting Code
Integrity" guide written and maintained by The Linux Foundation IT for
use with open-source projects. It provides the oft-lacking guidance on
the following topics:

- how to properly protect one's PGP keys to minimize the risks of them
  being stolen and used maliciously to impersonate a kernel developer
- how to configure Git to properly use GnuPG
- when and how to use PGP with Git
- how to verify fellow Linux Kernel developer identities

I believe this document should live with the rest of the documentation
describing proper processes one should follow when participating in
kernel development. Placing it in a wiki on some place like kernel.org
would be insufficient for a number of reasons -- primarily, because only
a relatively small subset of maintainers have accounts on kernel.org,
but also because even those who do rarely remember that such wiki
exists. Keeping it with the rest of in-kernel docs should hopefully give
it more visibility, but also help keep it up-to-date as tools and
processes evolve.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-01 10:58:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
255442c938 Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t
documentation, errseq documentation, kernel-doc support for nested
 structure definitions, the removal of lots of crufty kernel-doc support for
 unused formats, SPDX tag documentation, the beginnings of a manual for
 subsystem maintainers, and lots of fixes and updates.
 
 As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to effect
 kerneldoc comment fixes.  It also adds the new LICENSES directory, of which
 Thomas promises I do not need to be the maintainer.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
2018-01-31 19:25:25 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
aa19a176df Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses
should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well
as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to
refer to (LICENSES/).

Thanks to Kate and Greg for review and editing and Jonas for the
suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-01-06 10:58:02 -07:00
Markus Heiser
012e93cbdb docs: fix process/submit-checklist.rst Sphinx warning
add missing indent whitespace to list item, fixes the warning:

- process/submit-checklist.rst:41: WARNING: Enumerated list ends without a blank
  line; unexpected unindent.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21 13:39:32 -07:00
David Sterba
481f272004 Documentation: Add myself to the enforcement statement list
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21 13:39:29 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
24c6a74553 Documentation: Add Luis R. Rodriguez to list of enforcement statement endorsers
Add my name to the list.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21 13:39:29 -07:00
Kees Cook
c5531f2af6 Documentation: Add Kees Cook to list of enforcement statement endorsers
Add my name to the list.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21 13:39:29 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada
033dba2ec0 kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison
In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version-
controlled with a "_shipped" suffix.  During the kernel building,
they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix.

This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build,
but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers'
point of view.  (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time
we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y)

Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf
during the build.

In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup
function prototype.  Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely
removed by commit bb3290d916 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain").

This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not
hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you
generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see
"yywrap redefined" warning.  This was not intentional, but a bug,
fixed by flex-2.6.4.  Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly
stable for a long time.

This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files.
Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison.

Rationale for the minimal version:
The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype"
for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the
required version for flex.  Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008.  Bison
looks more stable.  I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released
in 2004.  I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough.

Tested flex versions:
  2.5.35
  2.5.36
  2.5.37
  2.5.39
  2.6.0
  2.6.1
  2.6.2
  2.6.3   (*)
  2.6.4

 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning

Tested bison versions:
  2.0
  2.1
  2.2
  2.3
  2.4
  2.4.1
  2.5.1
  2.6
  2.6.1
  2.6.2
  2.6.3
  2.6.4
  2.6.5
  2.7
  2.7.1
  3.0
  3.0.1
  3.0.2
  3.0.3
  3.0.4

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-16 11:12:53 +09:00
Darren Hart (VMware)
241f67c8cc Documentation/process: Add CONFIG default value to submit-checklist
Add default value review to the submit checklist, referring to the
preference for "default n" from the previous patch added to
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.

Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
d0300e5e8d Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh to v4.15
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-06 23:37:06 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
17a68b8359 Documentation: Add Arnaldo Melo to list of enforcement statement endorsers
Add my name to the list.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-11-29 18:18:03 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
1d3bc6363a A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's
a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build enhancement from
 Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build (but only when
 additional warnings have been requested in general).
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Merge tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait.

  There's a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build
  enhancement from Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build
  (but only when additional warnings have been requested in general)"

* tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments
  Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt
  documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file
  kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in paring example
  kokr/memory-barriers/txt: Replace uses of "transitive"
  Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
2017-11-23 21:01:32 -10:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
8ee25f6fcf Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors.  As git only
can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give
credit to the other developers of a commit.  To address this, document
the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of
the patch.

Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it
is their work that is being submitted here.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-11-20 10:43:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7832681b36 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.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

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
  ...
2017-11-13 08:25:06 -08:00
Frank Rowand
e1b48c209e Documentation: Add Frank Rowand to list of enforcement statement endorsers
Add my name to the list.

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-04 11:52:39 +01:00
Willy Tarreau
707f5a0ff5 doc: add Willy Tarreau to the list of enforcement statement endorsers
add me to the list.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-04 11:50:23 +01:00