Make the TLDR a bit shorter while improving it at the same time by going
straight to the aspects readers are more interested it. The change makes
the process especially more straight-forward for people that hit a
regression in a stable or longterm kernel. Due to the changes the TLDR
now also matches the step by step guide better.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/762ccd7735315d2fdaa79612fccc1f474881118b.1617113469.git.linux@leemhuis.info
[ jc: fixed transposed _` as noted by Thorsten ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Thorsten will keep an eye on the new document about reporting issues
(aka bugs).
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c8d55ec74d104b90fdb9c155bca3b407e8480fb3.1617113469.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Remove the WIP and two FIXME notes in the text to make it official, as
it's now considered fully ready for consumption. To make sure this
step is okay for people the intent of this change and the latest version
of the text were posted to ksummit-discuss; nobody complained, thus
lets move ahead.

Add a footer to point out people can contact Thorsten directly in case
they find something to improve in the text.

Dear reporting-bugs.rst, I'm sorry to tell you, but that makes you fully
obsolete and we thus have to let you go now. Thank you very much for
your service, you in one form or another have been around for a long
time. I'm sure over the years you got read a lot and helped quite a few
people. But it's time to retire now. Rest in peace.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
CC: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
CC: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/49c674c2d304d87e6259063580fda05267e8c348.1617113469.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Commit 1a63f9cc ("docs: Remove make headers_check from checklist")
fixed only the English version.

Let's fix the translated variants too.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302141822.504773-1-masahiroy@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Currently, kernel-doc start parsing the comment as a kernel-doc comment if
it starts with '/**', but does not take into account if the content inside
the comment too, adheres with the expected format.
This results in unexpected and unclear warnings for the user.

E.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none mm/memcontrol.c emits:
"mm/memcontrol.c:961: warning: expecting prototype for do not fallback to current(). Prototype was for get_mem_cgroup_from_current() instead"

Here kernel-doc parses the corresponding comment as a kernel-doc comment
and expects prototype for it in the next lines, and as a result causing
this warning.

Provide a clearer warning message to the users regarding the same, if the
content inside the comment does not follow the kernel-doc expected format.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210329092945.13152-1-yashsri421@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The previous attempt to properly handle literal blocks broke parsing of
parameter lines containing colons; fix it by tweaking the regex to
specifically exclude the "::" pattern while accepting lines containing
colons in general.  Add a little documentation to the regex while in the
neighborhood.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: 8d295fba ("kernel-doc: better handle '::' sequences")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Right now, if one of the following headers end with a '::', the
kernel-doc script will do the wrong thing:

	description|context|returns?|notes?|examples?

The real issue is with examples, as people could try to write
something like:

	example::

		/* Some C code */

and this won't be properly evaluated. So, improve the regex
to not catch '\w+::' regex for the above identifiers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2cf44cf1fa42588632735d4fbc8e84304bdc235f.1616696051.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Provide a shorter and easier process for users that deal with
regressions in stable and longterm kernels, as those should be reported
quickly.

To realize this in the least-confusing way and without having steps
multiple times in different places, split the 'search for existing
reports' into two. That has the additinal benefit that users will search
for them quickly when going through the step by step guide and thus will
save them trouble if the find reports.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d934c15e536bceeff5c40a126930ddf803548e08.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This duplicates two section to make the diff in the next patch a bit
easier to gasp for humans.

Straight copy, no content changes.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ef85edc8466f035eb243dd6629429ad4fd0565d8.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Reorder some steps where the order in which the readers perform them is
not crucial. This is a preparation for a later change that would make
the text much more complex otherwise.

Content just moved, not changed at all in the process.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8dfc58efde25a05ccf9bf85929826c4b1b9e09c5.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Tell users that reporting bugs with vendor kernels which are only
slightly patched can be okay in some situations, but point out there's a
risk in doing so.

Adjust some related sections to make them compatible and a bit clearer.
At the same time make them less daunting: we want users to report bugs,
even if they can't test vanilla mainline kernel.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/652ee20eb36228f5d7ca842299faa4cb472feedb.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix a typo and change "head over" to "scroll down", as suggested by Jon
when reviewing another patch that used the phrase the same way.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb845d2f1db6138337203bbfac419c04b5f28053.1616181657.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/init.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cd2fd8d0ea2ad50afc6bd2abe15eba73b6c7940c.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/189f2403ad168dafb4d5e50847c235064a2acaad.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f4210d304fa3f0b2a6e9eb798f63bf2e267231a0.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dad9f26205e9cae7254ed21c796688851ca5ebfd.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst while clean its todo entry.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b9106f76fdc8e20ce4fcd43aec499f00df411610.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add translation zh_CN/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst, and link it to
zh_CN/admin-guide/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/13d126d5a210988728c76398436c62f1fb25fb0c.1616050069.git.bobwxc@email.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/provisoned/provisioned/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319015848.19515-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Change the spelling from "consistend" to "consistent".
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YFS5KV7ejNoZmt6H@mwandaSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/struture/structure/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322062237.2971314-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

All the error message types now have a verbose description.

Also there are two new groups of message types:

- Macros, Attributes and Symbols
- Functions and Variables

Rearrange the message types to fit these new groups as needed.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322082139.33822-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add new translations

* Documentation/translations/zh_CN/kernel-hacking/index.rst
* Documentation/translations/zh_CN/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst

And link them to zh_CN/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210323091651.GA23904@mipcSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Translate this commit to Korean:

    cf6d6fc2 ("docs: process/howto.rst: make sections on bug reporting match practice")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210308075701.23411-1-sj38.park@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Signed-off-by: Bryan Brattlof <hello@bryanbrattlof.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210323145509.139393-1-hello@bryanbrattlof.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/maintanence/maintenance/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324080046.20709-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

After commit 8341f2f2 ("sysrq: Use panic() to force a crash"),
a crash was not generated by dereferencing a NULL pointer anymore.

Let's update documentation as well to make it less misleading.
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309191550.3955601-1-hsiangkao@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

To declutter the top-level table of contents (the side bar), this
patch reduces the architecture-specfic documentation to one top-level
item, "CPU Architectures".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312152804.2110703-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.netSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Loadpin cmdline interface "enabled" has been renamed to "enforce"
for a long time, but the User Description Document was not updated.
(Meaning unchanged)

And kernel_read_file* were moved from linux/fs.h to its own
linux/kernel_read_file.h include file. So update that change here.
Signed-off-by: Jiele zhao <unclexiaole@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210308020358.102836-1-unclexiaole@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Reword the subsystem bindings section to make sense, from a grammatical
point of view.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309130650.2318419-1-geert+renesas@glider.beSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH is used on x86 to do batched tlb shootdown by
sending one IPI to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages rather
than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry.
On arm64, tlb shootdown is done by hardware. Flush instructions are
innershareable. The local flushes are limited to the boot (1 per CPU)
and when a task is getting a new ASID.
So marking this feature as "TODO" is not proper. ".." isn't good as
well. So this patch adds a "N/A" for this kind of features which are
not needed on some architectures.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223003230.11976-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Just put in the relevant file names and let automarkup handle the rest.

Fixes: 550c8399 ("docs/zh_CN: Add zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/overcommited/overcommitted/
s/Overcommiting/Overcommitting/
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313061029.28024-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

s/varibles/variables/

...and remove leading spaces from a sentence.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210305100923.3731-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
[jc: performed suggested prepositional tweak]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

We've missed a few documentation when adding new VM_* flags.  Add the missing
pieces so they'll be in sync now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302000646.432358-1-peterx@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Changeset f546ff0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7")
cleaned up some compatibility issues with previous Sphinx
versions, but it also dropped the PDF margin sets.

Without that, the media documentation won't build fine, as
the margins are too wide to display texts with monospaced
fonts.

While here, align the  "latex_elements = {" values, and add
a few other sphinxsetup configs in order to allow Sphinx to
wrap long lines on literal blocks.

Fixes: f546ff0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

 Documentation/conf.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/911fbac185dd09c7df715cf4153361b81f04b7ad.1614787053.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

X86 isn't the only architecture supporting NUMA_BALANCING. ARM64, PPC,
S390 and RISCV also support it:

arch$ git grep NUMA_BALANCING
arm64/Kconfig:  select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
arm64/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype:      select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
riscv/Kconfig:  select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
s390/Kconfig:   select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y
s390/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
x86/Kconfig:    select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING     if X86_64
x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */

On the other hand, setup_numabalancing() is implemented in mm/mempolicy.c
which doesn't depend on architectures.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302084159.33688-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.comSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210301214722.2310911-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.netSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch translates Documentation/riscv/index.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-5-siyanteng@loongson.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch translates Documentation/riscv/pmu.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210228191054.6048-4-siyanteng@loongson.cnSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>