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2022-03-30docs: Add a document on how to fix a messy diffstatdocs-5.18-2Jonathan Corbet
A branch with merges in will sometimes create a diffstat containing a lot of unrelated work at "git request-pull" time. Create a document based on Linus's advice (found in the links below) and add it to the maintainer manual in the hope of saving some wear on Linus's keyboard going forward. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg3wXH2JNxkQi+eLZkpuxqV+wPiHhw_Jf7ViH33Sw7PHA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgXbSa8yq8Dht8at+gxb_idnJ7X5qWZQWRBN4_CUPr=eQ@mail.gmail.com/ Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-30docs: sphinx/requirements: Limit jinja2<3.1Akira Yokosawa
jinja2 release 3.1.0 (March 24, 2022) broke Sphinx<4.0. This looks like the result of deprecating Python 3.6. It has been tested against Sphinx 4.3.0 and later. Setting an upper limit of <3.1 to junja2 can unbreak Sphinx<4.0 including Sphinx 2.4.4. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7dbff8a0-f4ff-34a0-71c7-1987baf471f9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28Documentation: kunit: Fix cross-referencing warningsDavid Gow
The Architecture chapter of the KUnit documentation tried to include copies of the kernel-doc for a couple of things, despite these already existing in the API documentation. This lead to some warnings: architecture:31: ./include/kunit/test.h:3: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at dev-tools/kunit/api/test:66. Declaration is '.. c:struct:: kunit_case'. architecture:163: ./include/kunit/test.h:1217: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at dev-tools/kunit/api/test:1217. Declaration is '.. c:macro:: KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM'. architecture.rst:3: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at dev-tools/kunit/api/test:66. Declaration is '.. c:struct:: kunit_case'. architecture.rst:1217: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at dev-tools/kunit/api/test:1217. Declaration is '.. c:macro:: KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM'. Get rid of these, and cleanup the mentions of the struct and macro in question so that sphinx generates a link to the existing copy of the documentation in the api/test document. Fixes: bc145b370c11 ("Documentation: KUnit: Added KUnit Architecture") Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220326054414.637293-1-davidgow@google.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28scripts/kernel-doc: change the line number meta infoMauro Carvalho Chehab
In order to make it more standard and ReST compatible, change the meta-tag used with --enable-lineno from: #define LINENO to .. LINENO In practice, no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/40725032b5a4a33db740bf1de397523af958ff8a.1648290305.git.mchehab@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28scripts/get_abi: change the file/line number meta infoMauro Carvalho Chehab
In order to make it more standard and ReST compatible, change the meta-tag used with --enable-lineno from: #define LINENO to .. LINENO In practice, no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/125ffd31fbc77ad9eee4d6906e1830b8162fa6ca.1648290305.git.mchehab@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28docs: kernel_include.py: add sphinx build dependenciesMauro Carvalho Chehab
The files included by kernel-include should be added as build dependencies, in order for sphinx-build to rebuild the corresponding docs if any changes at the included file happens. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d30fc4fa422a13b7e1623d690945c46b58a55e79.1648290305.git.mchehab@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28docs: kernel_abi.py: add sphinx build dependenciesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Ensure that Sphinx-build will handle the files parsed by get_abi.pl as dependencies. This way, if they are touched, the ABI output will be regenerated. Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/10bc3d3bc74f514a539cd3b48b9d287d2b6f99e2.1648290305.git.mchehab@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28docs: kernel_feat.py: add build dependenciesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Ensure that the feature files will be regenerated if any changes happen at the Documentation/features files that were processed by gen_feat.pl. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5cdf7a8300019129dcc09d4c2557f75908754445.1648290305.git.mchehab@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-28docs: kfigure.py: Don't warn of missing PDF converter in 'make htmldocs'Akira Yokosawa
SVG -> PDF conversion is not required in "make htmldocs". It is pointless to always warn of a missing converter. Demote the log message in setupTools() to verbose. For "make pdfdocs" (or "make latexdocs"), promote the dynamic message of "include SVG raw" to a warn. Expand the message and recommend installing Inkscape or ImageMagick. Fixes: 8ccd05697a9d ("docs: sphinx/kfigure.py: Use inkscape(1) for SVG -> PDF conversion") Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c80e1481-10d4-7151-fe59-e846259eb0d4@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-25Documentation: Fix duplicate statement about raw_spinlock_t typeGuilherme G. Piccoli
Unless it was duplicate on purpose, to emphasize that a raw_spinlock_t is always a spinning lock regardless of PREEMPT_RT or kernel config, it's a bit odd that this text is duplicate. So, this patch just clean it up, keeping the consistency with the other sections of the text. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 919e9e6395cf ("Documentation: Add lock ordering and nesting documentation") Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220321144133.49804-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-16docs/kernel-parameters: update description of mem=docs-5.18Mike Rapoport
The existing description of mem= does not cover all the cases and differences between how architectures treat it. Extend the description to match the code. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310082736.1346366-1-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-16docs/zh_CN: Add sched-nice-design Chinese translationTang Yizhou
Translate scheduler/sched-nice-design.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <tangyizhou@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220312072642.23118-1-tangyizhou@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-16docs: scheduler: Convert schedutil.txt to ReSTTang Yizhou
All other scheduler documents have been converted to *.rst. Let's do the same for schedutil.txt. Also fixed some typos. Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <tangyizhou@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220312070751.16844-1-tangyizhou@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11Docs: ktap: add code-block typeRandy Dunlap
Fix multiple "code-block::" warnings by adding "none" as the type of code-block. Mends these warnings: Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:71: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:120: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:126: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:132: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:139: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:145: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:195: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:208: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst:238: WARNING: Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Fixes: a32fa6b2e8b4 ("Documentation: dev-tools: Add KTAP specification") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com> Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131003637.14274-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs: serial: fix a reference file name in driver.rstWan Jiabing
Fix the following 'make refcheckdocs' warning: Warning: Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst references a file that doesn't exist: Documentation/driver-api/serial/tty.rst Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220304100315.6732-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs: UML: Mention telnetd for port channelVincent Whitchurch
It is not obvious from the documentation that using the "port" channel for the console requires telnetd to be installed (see port_connection() in arch/um/drivers/port_user.c). Mention this, and the fact that UML will not boot until a client connects. Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310124230.3069354-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs/zh_CN: add damon reclaim translationYanteng Si
Translate .../admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a436fa78814bb0a7b9c2f3049e544b1e1802560.1646899089.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs/zh_CN: add damon usage translationYanteng Si
Translate .../admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/431f1c2a158c61a6556f58048cb54961ab7a8790.1646899089.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs/zh_CN: add admin-guide damon start translationYanteng Si
Translate Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e6e328be018cbf5f9105adfdad56c951acbb8c8f.1646899089.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs/zh_CN: add admin-guide damon index translationYanteng Si
Translate .../admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0251f09dc926972068329b87b0563dd432849497.1646899089.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11docs/zh_CN: Refactoring the admin-guide directory indexYanteng Si
The Todolist in the html document looks a mess, now give it a nice looking format. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d410408ec13d6e9cff97da50a13d793a428e05cf.1646899089.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11zh_CN: Add translation for admin-guide/mm/index.rstxu xin
Translate Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst into Chinese. Update Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst. Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2d695dac05efc012b99fbc7525be65a421c7de03.1646899056.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11zh_CN: Add translations for admin-guide/mm/ksm.rstxu xin
Translate Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst into Chinese. Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f987a3a2cbffaad64f6e2377a5e393d9afbb099c.1646899056.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-11Add Chinese translation for vm/ksm.rstxu xin
Translate Documentation/vm/ksm.rst into Chinese. Update Documentation/translations/zh_CN/vm/index.rst. Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ceb82d6458cd79bc3b7060199db0c3518adc3b8b.1646899056.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: Add sched-stats Chinese translationTang Yizhou
Translate scheduler/sched-stats.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <tangyizhou@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309153659.24437-1-tangyizhou@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: add devicetree of_unittest translationYanteng Si
Translate .../Devicetree/of_unittest.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/da75225df2ac7bee8de653d95b2a872510b34f7d.1646642188.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: add devicetree usage-model translationYanteng Si
Translate .../Devicetree/usage-model.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/abc4bfa5a8eb438013913bf8ea5f8a29e5730f33.1646642188.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: add devicetree index translationYanteng Si
Translate .../devicetree/index.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a01f2eee980da02c0810d3d99b95af9013b646f.1646642188.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09Documentation: describe how to apply incremental stable patchesBagas Sanjaya
The applying patches document (Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst) mentions incremental stable patches, but there is no example of how to apply them. Describe the process. While at it, remove note about incremental patches and move the external link of 5.x.y incremental patches to "Where can I download patches?" section. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220307063340.256671-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: add peci subsystem translationYanteng Si
Translate .../peci/peci.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/00577790cb16375e0016513e03d06b671006a3da.1646108017.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: add peci index translationYanteng Si
Translate .../pici/index.rst into Chinese Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fdba94417277ae20db7e3b13418584c652be93f.1646108017.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09docs/zh_CN: add riscv vm-layout translationYanteng Si
Translate .../riscv/vm-layout.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b59965f7f88ea22ec824dc2e92561b018fd370d1.1646108017.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09Documentation/process: Add Researcher GuidelinesKees Cook
As a follow-up to the UMN incident[1], the TAB took the responsibility to document Researcher Guidelines so there would be a common place to point for describing our expectations as a developer community. Document best practices researchers should follow to participate successfully with the Linux developer community. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook/ Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Co-developed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Co-developed-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> Signed-off-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr> Reviewed-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220304181418.1692016-1-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-04docs: fix 'make htmldocs' warning in perfWan Jiabing
Fix following 'make htmldocs' warnings: ./Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Fixes: c8602008e247 ("docs: perf: Add description for HiSilicon PCIe PMU driver") Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220228031700.1669086-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-04Documentation/locking/locktypes: Fix PREEMPT_RT _bh() descriptionAndrew Halaney
With PREEMPT_RT the _bh() version of a spinlock leaves preemption enabled, align the doc to say that instead of the opposite. Reported-by: Leah Leshchinsky <lleshchi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224212312.2601153-1-ahalaney@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: reporting-issues.rst: link new document about regressionsThorsten Leemhuis
Make Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst point to the newly created document about regressions (Documentation/admin-guide/regressions-regressions.rst). This allows to shorten a few explanations the new document describes better and in more detail. While at it move the copyright hint to the end of the file and remove quotes around links to other places in the documentation. Both issues came up during the review of the new documents about regressions. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f20114eaddc356a8c79dd62812a6c7f4ca5d87b9.1644994117.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: *-regressions.rst: explain how quickly issues should be handledThorsten Leemhuis
Add a section with a few rules of thumb about how quickly developers should address regressions to Documentation/process/handling-regressions.rst; additionally, add a short paragraph about this to the companion document Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.rst as well. The rules of thumb were written after studying the quotes from Linus found in handling-regressions.rst and especially influenced by statements like "Users are literally the _only_ thing that matters" and "without users, your program is not a program, it's a pointless piece of code that you might as well throw away". The author interpreted those in perspective to how the various Linux kernel series are maintained currently and what those practices might mean for users running into a regression on a small or big kernel update. That for example lead to the paragraph starting with "Aim to get fixes for regressions mainlined within one week after identifying the culprit, if the regression was introduced in a stable/longterm release or the devel cycle for the latest mainline release". Some might see this as pretty high bar, but on the other hand something like that is needed to not leave users out in the cold for too long -- which can quickly happen when updating to the latest stable series, as the previous one is normally stamped "End of Life" about three or four weeks after a new mainline release. This makes a lot of users switch during this timeframe. Any of them thus risk running into regressions not promptly fixed; even worse, once the previous stable series is EOLed for real, users that face a regression might be left with only three options: (1) continue running an outdated and thus potentially insecure kernel version from an abandoned stable series (2) run the kernel with the regression (3) downgrade to an earlier longterm series still supported This is better avoided, as (1) puts users and their data in danger, (2) will only be possible if it's a minor regression that doesn't interfere with booting or serious usage, and (3) might be regression itself or impossible on the particular machine, as the users might require drivers or features only introduced after the latest longterm series branched of. In the end this lead to the aforementioned "Aim to fix regression within one week" part. It's also the reason for the "Try to resolve any regressions introduced in the current development cycle before its end.". Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a7b717b52c0d54cdec9b6daf56ed6669feddee2c.1644994117.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: add two documents about regression handlingThorsten Leemhuis
Create two documents explaining various aspects around regression handling and tracking; one is aimed at users, the other targets developers. The texts among others describes the first rule of Linux kernel development and what it means in practice. They also explain what a regression actually is and how to report one properly. Both texts additionally provide a brief introduction to the bot the kernel's regression tracker uses to facilitate the work, but mention the use is optional. To sum things up, provide a few quotes from Linus in the document for developers to show how serious we take regressions. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/34e56d3588f22d7e0b4d635ef9c9c3b33ca4ac04.1644994117.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: fix RST error in vm/page_owner.rstJonathan Corbet
Commit f7df2b1cf03a ("tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: count and sort by mem") added a literal text block without the necessary markup, leading to these warnings in the docs build: Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst:92: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst:96: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst:107: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Add the necessary colons and make the build quieter. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24Reword note on missing CJK fontsAkira Yokosawa
Use past tense as the fonts can be installed after the fact. Add suggestion to install "Noto Sans CJK" and "Noto Serif CJK" font families. ("Noto Serif CJK" is optional.) Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dfefa601-c58d-c86c-953f-5e4454db9409@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Expand comments in LaTeX codeAkira Yokosawa
Expand comments in LaTeX code and mention some of important points told in changelogs of conf.py changes. Hopefully they can help future contributors in this area. No code change involved. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bce9261b-1950-3146-07b2-07bd2ec79158@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: pdfdocs: Pull LaTeX preamble part out of conf.pyAkira Yokosawa
Quote from Jon's remark [1]: I do notice that Documentation/conf.py is getting large and unapproachable. At some future point, it might be nice to pull all of the latex stuff out into a separate file where it won't scare people who stumble into it by accident. Pull LaTeX preamble settings added since commit 3b4c963243b1 ("docs: conf.py: adjust the LaTeX document output") out into sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty. It will be copied to the build directory by the added "latex_additional_files" setting in conf.py. As a bonus, LaTeX/TeX code can be maintained without escaping backslashes. To compensate the loss of change history in sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty, here is a list of changes made in conf.py: - f7ebe6b76940 ("docs: Activate exCJK only in CJK chapters") - 0afd4df0d16a ("docs: pdfdocs: Prevent column squeezing by tabulary") - 659653c9e546 ("docs: pdfdocs: Refactor config for CJK document") - e291ff6f5a03 ("docs: pdfdocs: Add CJK-language-specific font settings") - 7eb368cc319b ("docs: pdfdocs: Choose Serif font as CJK mainfont if possible") - 35382965bdd2 ("docs: pdfdocs: Preserve inter-phrase space in Korean translations") - 77abc2c230b1 ("docs: pdfdocs: One-half spacing for CJK translations") - 788d28a25799 ("docs: pdfdocs: Permit AutoFakeSlant for CJK fonts") - 29ac9822358f ("docs: pdfdocs: Teach xeCJK about character classes of quotation marks") - 7c5c18bdb656 ("docs: pdfdocs: Fix typo in CJK-language specific font settings") - aa872e0647dc ("docs: pdfdocs: Adjust \headheight for fancyhdr") - 8716ef413aa5 ("docs: pdfdocs: Tweak width params of TOC") - 66939df53948 ("docs: pdfdocs: Switch default CJK font to KR variants") - 7b686a2ea1e4 ("docs: pdfdocs: Enable CJKspace in TOC for Korean titles") - 5d9158e3c762 ("docs/translations: Skip CJK contents if suitable fonts not found") - b774cc46313b ("docs: pdfdocs: Move CJK monospace font setting to main conf.py") [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87zgmr66cn.fsf@meer.lwn.net/ Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aaa9dca1-27c0-c414-77f3-c5587db0cc5b@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24Documentation: block/diskstats: update function namesNaohiro Aota
__make_request() and end_that_request_last() do no longer exist. Replace them with the current call-site. Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviwed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220222012751.1933194-1-naohiro.aota@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst: fix languageYixuan Cao
There are some words that need to be fixed. Thanks for Shuah Khan's constructive suggestions. The text has been fixed as follows. a. So, if you'd like to use it, you need to add "page_owner=on" into your boot cmdline. Here, "into" has been replaced with "to". b. ...page owner is disabled in runtime due to no enabling, boot option, runtime overhead is marginal. Here, "no" has been replaced with "not". Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220223134104.2663-1-caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24docs: Remove duplicated words in trace/osnoise-tracerOscar Shiang
There are 2 duplicated words found in osnoise tracer documentation. This patch removes them. Signed-off-by: Oscar Shiang <oscar0225@livemail.tw> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/TYCP286MB1913117487F390E3BCE38B15A1399@TYCP286MB1913.JPNP286.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-15docs: pdfdocs: Move CJK monospace font setting to main conf.pyAkira Yokosawa
As LaTeX macros for CJK font settings can have Latin-script font settings as well, settings under Documentation/translations/ can be moved to the main conf.py. By this change, translations.pdf built by top-level "make pdfdocs" can have properly aligned ascii-art diagrams except for Korean ones. For the reason of remaining misalignment in Korean diagrams, see changelog of commit a90dad8f610a ("docs: pdfdocs: Add conf.py local to translations for ascii-art alignment"). Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eb87790a-03f4-9f29-c8a3-ef2c3e78ca18@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-15docs/translations: Skip CJK contents if suitable fonts not foundAkira Yokosawa
On systems without "Noto Sans CJK" fonts, CJK chapters in translations.pdf are full of "TOFU" boxes, with a long build time and a large log file containing lots of missing-font warnings. Avoid such waste of time and resources by skipping CJK chapters when CJK fonts are not available. To skip whole chapters, change the definition of \kerneldocBegin{SC|TC|KR|JP} commands so that they can have an argument to be ignored. This works as far as the argument (#1) is not used in the command. In place of skipped contents, put a note on skipped contents at the beginning of the PDF. Change the call sites in index.rst of CJK translations accordingly. When CJK fonts are available, existing command definitions with no argument just work. LaTeX engine will see additional pairs of "{" and "}", which add a level of grouping without having any effect on typesetting. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3359ca41-b81d-b2c7-e437-7618efbe241d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-15docs: pdfdocs: Enable CJKspace in TOC for Korean titlesAkira Yokosawa
Korean (Hangul) titles in Table of Contents of translations.pdf don't have inter-phrase spaces. This is because the CJKspace option of xeCJK is disabled by default. Restore the spaces by enabling the option at the beginning of every document and disable it in the \kerneldocBegin{SC|TC|JP} commands. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19141b3e-01d9-1f6d-5020-42fbda784831@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-15docs: pdfdocs: Switch default CJK font to KR variantsAkira Yokosawa
xeCJK is enabled in Table of Contents (TOC) so that translations.pdf built by top-level "make pdfdocs" can have its TOC typeset properly. This causes quotation marks and apostrophe symbols appear too wide in Latin-script docs. This is because (1) Sphinx converts ASCII symbols into multi-byte UTF-8 ones in LaTeX and (2) in the SC variant of "Noto CJK" font families, those UTF-8 symbols have full-width glyph. The KR variant of the font families has half-width glyph for those symbols and TOC pages should look nicer when it is used instead. Switch the default CJK font families to the KR variant and teach xeCJK of those symbols' widths. To compensate the switch, teach xeCJK of the width in the SC and TC variants. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0c8ea878-0a6f-ea01-ab45-4e66c5facee9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-15docs: pdfdocs: Tweak width params of TOCAkira Yokosawa
Sphinx has its own set of width parameters of Table of Contents (TOC) for LaTeX defined in its class definition of sphinxmanual.cls. It also inherits parameters for chapter entries from report.cls of original LaTeX base. However, they are optimized assuming small documents with tens of pages and chapters/sections of less than 10. To cope with some of kernel-doc documents with more than 1000 pages and several tens of chapters/sections, definitions of those parameters need to be adjusted. Unfortunately, those parameters are hard coded in the class definitions and need low-level LaTeX coding tricks to redefine. As Sphinx 1.7.9 does not have \sphinxtableofcontentshook, which defines those parameters in later Sphinx versions, for compatibility with both pre-1.8 and later Sphinx versions, empty the hook altogether and redefine \@pnumwidth, \l@chapter, \l@section, and \@subsection commands originally defined in report.cls. Summary of parameter changes: Width of page number (\@pnumwidth): 1.55em -> 2.7em Width of chapter number: 1.5em -> 1.8em Indent of section number: 1.5em -> 1.8em Width of section number: 2.6em -> 3.2em Indent of subsection number: 4.1em -> 5em Width of subsection number: 3.5em -> 4.3em Notes: 1. Parameters for subsection become relevant only when ":maxdepth: 3" is specified under "toctree::" (e.g., RCU/index.rst). They can hold subsection numbers up to 5 digits such as "18.7.13" (in RCU.pdf). 2. Number of chapters in driver-api.pdf is getting closer to 100. When it reaches 100, another set of tweaks will be necessary. 3. The low-level LaTeX trick is mentioned in "Unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual" at: http://latexref.xyz/Table-of-contents-etc_002e.html Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e52b4718-7909-25be-fbc1-76800aa62ae3@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>