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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index 15a522a96e76..c8af32a8f800 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent document! With luck things will improve quickly over time. +General guides to kernel administration +--------------------------------------- + This initial section contains overall information, including the README file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters, etc. @@ -15,19 +18,44 @@ etc. :maxdepth: 1 README - kernel-parameters devices - sysctl/index - abi features -This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations. +A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs +virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + sysfs-rules + sysctl/index + cputopology + abi + +Security-related documentation: .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 hw-vuln/index + LSM/index + perf-security + +Booting the kernel +------------------ + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + bootconfig + kernel-parameters + efi-stub + initrd + + +Tracking down and identifying problems +-------------------------------------- Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down problems and bugs in particular. @@ -48,95 +76,120 @@ problems and bugs in particular. kdump/index perf/index pstore-blk + clearing-warn-once + kernel-per-CPU-kthreads + lockup-watchdogs + RAS/index + sysrq -This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to -application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel -ABI will be found here. + +Core-kernel subsystems +---------------------- + +These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are +likely to be of interest on almost any system. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - sysfs-rules + cgroup-v2 + cgroup-v1/index + cpu-load + mm/index + module-signing + namespaces/index + numastat + pm/index + syscall-user-dispatch -This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to -application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the -Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting -analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel -subsystems expectations will be found here. +Support for non-native binary formats. Note that some of these +documents are ... old ... .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - workload-tracing + binfmt-misc + java + mono -The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to -configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking. + +Block-layer and filesystem administration +----------------------------------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - acpi/index - aoe/index - auxdisplay/index bcache binderfs - binfmt-misc blockdev/index - bootconfig - braille-console - btmrvl - cgroup-v1/index - cgroup-v2 cifs/index - clearing-warn-once - cpu-load - cputopology - dell_rbu device-mapper/index - edid - efi-stub ext4 filesystem-monitoring nfs/index - gpio/index - highuid - hw_random - initrd iostats - java jfs - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads + md + ufs + xfs + +Device-specific guides +---------------------- + +How to configure your hardware within your Linux system. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + acpi/index + aoe/index + auxdisplay/index + braille-console + btmrvl + dell_rbu + edid + gpio/index + hw_random laptops/index lcd-panel-cgram - ldm - lockup-watchdogs - LSM/index - md media/index - mm/index - module-signing - mono - namespaces/index - numastat + nvme-multipath parport - perf-security - pm/index pnp rapidio - RAS/index rtc serial-console svga - syscall-user-dispatch - sysrq thermal/index thunderbolt - ufs - unicode vga-softcursor video-output - xfs - nvme-multipath + +Workload analysis +----------------- + +This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to +application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the +Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting +analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel +subsystems expectations will be found here. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + workload-tracing + +Everything else +--------------- + +A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + highuid + ldm + unicode .. only:: subproject and html |