The process book is arguably the most important documentation we have; the
top three trafficked pages on docs.kernel.org are found here.  Make a
beginning effort to impose a more useful organization on this page to ease
developers into the community.
Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

When the buffer_percent file was added to the kernel, the documentation
should have been updated to document what that file does.
Acked-by: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 03329f99 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage")
Signed-off-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231229122402.537eb252@gandalf.local.home

The patch adds a new file boot.rst to the Documentation/translations/zh_CN/
arch/riscv/ directory, and adds a reference to the new file
in the index.rst file.
Signed-off-by: longjin <longjin@DragonOS.org>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231218092924.200165-1-longjin@DragonOS.org

Since util-linux commit 13b26e3c36d1
("fdformat: remove command from default build")
the fdformat tool is not built anymore by default.
As a result it is not packaged anymore by distributions and therefore
not usable by users.

Instead mention the "mount" command as more likely to be present
alternative.

Also drop the reference to fdformat from the list of features of new
versions of util-linux.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231220-docs-fdformat-v1-1-0d05279e5d83@weissschuh.net

We know the macro DEBUG will make pr_debug() save the formatted
string into final binary. But the translation in chinese gives a
opposite meaning.
Signed-off-by: "JiaLong.Yang" <jialong.yang@shingroup.cn>
Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221055832.4374-1-jialong.yang@shingroup.cn

This file documents a sysfs interface that is intended for systems
management software. It does NOT document any kind of kernel driver
API. It is also not meant to be used directly by system administrators
or users.

Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221124816.2978000-3-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

driver-api/isapnp documents /proc interfaces for interfacing directly
with ISA Plug & Play devices, not any kind of API for kernel developers,
and should thus also live under userspace-api/.

Also fix a few issues while we're at it.

Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221124816.2978000-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

Correct to “boundaries” from “bounaries”
Signed-off-by: Attreyee Mukherjee <tintinm2017@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231223175316.24951-1-tintinm2017@gmail.com

Fixed typos in the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION flag description.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Cassell <mcassell411@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231223185845.2326-1-mcassell411@gmail.com

Currently a void function can produce a warning:
  main.c:469: warning: contents before sections

This one is from arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c (which is not included
in any produced kernel documentation output).

Handle this by setting $in_doc_sect to 1 whenever any recognized
document section name is processed.

Fixes: f624adef ("kernel-doc: limit the "section header:" detection to a select few")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226065219.319-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

When there are filenames of the form ".orig" or ".rej" in
the Documenatation/ABI/ subdirectories, there can be confusing or
erroneous output generated. Example: the file
Documenation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-papr-pmem.orig causes this
warning message:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-papr-pmem:2: WARNING: unknown document: '/powerpc/papr_hcalls'

Prevent this by skipping over filenames that may be created by
patch/diff tools etc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231228233113.5218-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

The kernel-abi directive passes its argument straight to the shell.
This is unfortunate and unnecessary.

Let's always use paths relative to $srctree/Documentation/ and use
subprocess.check_call() instead of subprocess.Popen(shell=True).

This also makes the code shorter.

Link: https://fosstodon.org/@jani/111676532203641247Reported-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231231235959.3342928-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

The code currently leaks the absolute path of the ABI files into the
rendered documentation.

There exists code to prevent this, but it is not effective when an
absolute path is passed, which it is when $srctree is used.

I consider this to be a minimal, stop-gap fix; a better fix would strip
off the actual prefix instead of hacking it off with a regex.

Link: https://mastodon.social/@vegard/111677490643495163
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231231235959.3342928-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

Michael retired from maintaining the Linux man-pages project in 2021.
See commit 06e72cb19c74d3b1d661609c698ee26d7b6e4d7e ("CONTRIBUTING,
README, lsm: Remove mtk as maintainer") in the Linux man-pages
repository.

Add him to CREDITS.
Reported-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=06e72cb19c74d3b1d661609c698ee26d7b6e4d7e>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@man7.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240101124242.8059-2-alx@kernel.org

Add a new Sphinx extension that knows about the translations of kernel
documentation and can insert links to the translations at the top of
the document.

It basically works like this:

1. Register a new node type, LanguagesNode.

2. Register a new transform, TranslationsTransform, that inserts a new
   LanguageNode at the top of every document. The LanguageNode contains
   "pending references" to translations of the document. The key here
   is that these are pending (i.e. unresolved) references that may or
   may not actually exist.

3. Register a 'doctree-resolved' event that iterates over all the
   LanguageNode nodes. Any unresolved references are filtered out; the
   list of resolved references is passed to the 'translations.html'
   template and rendered as an HTML node (if HTML output is selected).

Testing: make htmldocs, make latexdocs with Sphinx v4.3.2 and Firefox.

v2:
- changed bar into a drop-down menu
- fixed language labels
- fixed hysteresis reported by Akira Yokosawa

Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215123701.2712807-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

The update to the quick help mentions -Wshort-description, but
code never supported for that. Align that with the code by allowing
both: -Wshort-description and -Wshort-desc.

Fixes: 56b0f453 ("kernel-doc: don't let V=1 change outcome")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215150341.1996720-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

Add Avadhut Naik as reviewer of the Spanish translations of the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Acked-by: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231218154308.3314929-1-carlos.bilbao@amd.com

kernel-doc appeared to ignore __counted_by, but appearances can be
deceiving; it caused member names to not be recognized, which manifested as
a number of spurious "Excess struct member" warnings.  Filter that
attribute out and reduce the warning onslaught slightly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The output "or member" should be more specific, instead saying "struct
member".

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215001513.work.563-kees@kernel.org

It seems that Sphinx is confused by the __counted_by attribute on struct
members. Add it to the list of known attributes.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312150614.kOx8xUkr-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215001347.work.151-kees@kernel.org

The accept_memory kernel parameter was added in commit dcdfdd40
("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") but not listed in the
kernel-parameters doc. Add it there.
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231214-accept_memory_param-v2-1-f38cd20a0247@suse.cz

The warning for Excess struct or union member description was
removed when the $nested parameter of check_sections() was removed.
This causes some kernel-doc notation warnings to be missed.

Recently the kernel test robot somehow reported an Excess member. The
code in kernel-doc has not issued that warning since kernel v4.16, so I
don't know how the robot did it. (See the Link for the report.)

  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c:86: warning: Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'trans_len' description in 'iwl_fw_dump_ptrs'

I patched that warning away even though I could not reproduce the
warning from kernel-doc. The warning should be issued for extraneous
struct member or union member description, so restore it.

Fixes: 1081de2d ("scripts: kernel-doc: get rid of $nested parameter")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202312060810.QT9zourt-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231214070200.24405-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

Since most examples use the ddcmd alias, remove the redundant file names
Signed-off-by: Rex Nie <rex.nie@jaguarmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213073735.2850-1-rex.nie@jaguarmicro.com

The docs currently have <h3> and <h4> set to the same font size which
makes headings hard to distinguish. <h1> to <h3> already have entries in
sphinx-static/custom.css to shrink their size a bit from the alabaster
theme.

Add <h4> to custom.css and set it to be smaller than <h3>.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231212213137.98453-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com

Move the howto.rst file in Spanish translation to /sp_SP/process/ to
ensure its location is symmetrical to its corresponding version in
English.
Signed-off-by: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211023730.2026204-5-avadhut.naik@amd.com

By default, links in translated Spanish documentation redirect to
documents in English, even if their corresponding Spanish version
exists.

Warn readers about this beforehand through disclaimer.rst.
Signed-off-by: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211023730.2026204-4-avadhut.naik@amd.com

Translate Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst into Spanish.
Signed-off-by: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211023730.2026204-3-avadhut.naik@amd.com

Translate Documentation/process/management-style.rst into Spanish.
Signed-off-by: Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211023730.2026204-2-avadhut.naik@amd.com

Commit 31abfdda (docs: Deprecate use of Sphinx < 2.4.x) in 6.2 added a
warning that support for older versions of Sphinx would be going away.
There have been no complaints, so the time has come.  Raise the minimum
Sphinx version to 2.4.4 and clean out some compatibility code that we no
longer need.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/874jgs47fq.fsf@meer.lwn.netSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add a separate documentation directory for TEE subsystem since it is a
standalone subsystem which already offers devices consumed by multiple
different subsystem drivers.

Split overall TEE subsystem documentation modularly where:
- The userspace API has been moved to Documentation/userspace-api/tee.rst.
- The driver API has been moved to Documentation/driver-api/tee.rst.
- The first module covers the overview of TEE subsystem.
- The further modules are dedicated to different TEE implementations like:
  - OP-TEE
  - AMD-TEE
  - and so on for future TEE implementation support.
Acked-by: Rijo Thomas <Rijo-john.Thomas@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128072352.866859-1-sumit.garg@linaro.org

Adding a parameter is not particularly useful here, and it is definitely
not done elsewhere. It also prevents the generation of a hyperlink to the
kernel-doc documentation. Removing the parameter to enable hyperlinks and
make the style coherent.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201-nvmem-docs-kerneldoc-v1-2-3e8f2b706ce6@bootlin.com

This is useful on its own, and it also enables hyperlink generation for
functions mentioned in ReST documentation.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201-nvmem-docs-kerneldoc-v1-1-3e8f2b706ce6@bootlin.com

Fix function parameters to prevent kernel-doc warnings.

vboxsf_wrappers.c:132: warning: Function parameter or member 'create_parms' not described in 'vboxsf_create'
vboxsf_wrappers.c:132: warning: Excess function parameter 'param' description in 'vboxsf_create'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206025355.31814-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

After receiving a second patchset this week without knowing which tree
it applies on and trying to apply it on the obvious ones and failing,
make sure the base tree information which needs to be supplied in the
0th message of the patchset is spelled out more explicitly.

Also, make the formulations stronger as this really is a requirement and
not only a useful thing anymore.
Signed-off-by: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
change-id: <unique-series-id>
base-commit: <commit-id-or-tag>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115170330.16626-1-bp@alien8.de

Update to commit f1477dbf ("docs: add backporting and conflict
resolution document")
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7f79015d251b3ad88d6ea596508e39832623db9d.1700474235.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn

The current lines are too long and unfriendly to developers who use
vim to read documents, especially on small monitors, so let's adjust
to less than 40 characters.

In addition, some translations were modified incidentally.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b3c1b55a442280c583518c45495e5540d6797548.1700474235.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn

Translate process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst into Chinese.
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7c7f24f653468c9a2c7e3909a7a390ea36eec879.1700474235.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn

We already have the logo, let's use it.

Testing: make htmldocs

Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231029074207.297663-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

There aren't a ton of references to commits in the documentation, but
they do exist, and we can use automarkup to linkify them to make them
easier to follow.

Use something like this to find references to commits:

  git grep -P 'commit.*[0-9a-f]{8,}' Documentation/

Also fix a few of these to standardize on the exact format that is
already used in changelogs.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027115420.205279-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

Vegard Nossum writes:

  This patch series replaces some instances of 'class:: toc-title' with
  toctree's :caption: attribute, see the last patch in the series for some
  more rationale/explanation.