Commit 5e720172 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet

docs: Organize core-api/index.rst

The core-api manual has become a big, disorganized mess.  Try to bring a
small amount of order to it by organizing the documents into
subcategories.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent d8401f50
......@@ -8,42 +8,81 @@ This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs. The conversion
Core utilities
==============
This section has general and "core core" documentation. The first is a
massive grab-bag of kerneldoc info left over from the docbook days; it
should really be broken up someday when somebody finds the energy to do
it.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
kernel-api
workqueue
printk-formats
symbol-namespaces
Data structures and low-level utilities
=======================================
Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
kobject
assoc_array
xarray
idr
circular-buffers
generic-radix-tree
packing
timekeeping
errseq
Concurrency primitives
======================
How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time. See
:doc:`/locking/index` for more related documentation.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
atomic_ops
cachetlb
refcount-vs-atomic
cpu_hotplug
idr
local_ops
workqueue
padata
../RCU/index
Low-level hardware management
=============================
Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
cachetlb
cpu_hotplug
memory-hotplug
genericirq
xarray
librs
genalloc
errseq
packing
printk-formats
circular-buffers
generic-radix-tree
protection-keys
Memory management
=================
How to allocate and use memory in the kernel. Note that there is a lot
more memory-management documentation in :doc:`/vm/index`.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
memory-allocation
mm-api
genalloc
pin_user_pages
gfp_mask-from-fs-io
timekeeping
boot-time-mm
memory-hotplug
protection-keys
../RCU/index
gcc-plugins
symbol-namespaces
padata
ioctl
gfp_mask-from-fs-io
Interfaces for kernel debugging
===============================
......@@ -54,6 +93,18 @@ Interfaces for kernel debugging
debug-objects
tracepoint
Everything else
===============
Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
librs
gcc-plugins
ioctl
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
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