01 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A handful of objtool fixes related to unreachable code, plus a build
fix for out of tree modules"* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool: Enclose contents of unreachable() macro in a block
objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable()
objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends
objtool: Fix CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y warning for out-of-tree modules
23 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A slightly quieter cycle for documentation this time around.Three more DocBook template files have been converted to RST; only 21
to go. There are various build improvements and the usual array of
documentation improvements and fixes"* tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (44 commits)
docs / driver-api: Fix structure references in device_link.rst
PM / docs: Fix structure references in device.rst
Add a target to check broken external links in the Documentation
Documentation: Fix linux-api list typo
Documentation: DocBook/Makefile comment typo
Improve sparse documentation
Documentation: make Makefile.sphinx no-ops quieter
Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
Documentation: input: fix path to input code definitions
docs: Remove the copyright year from conf.py
docs: Fix a warning in the Korean HOWTO.rst translation
PM / sleep / docs: Convert PM notifiers document to reST
PM / core / docs: Convert sleep states API document to reST
PM / core: Update kerneldoc comments in pm.h
doc-rst: Fix recursive make invocation from macros
doc-rst: Delete output of failed dot-SVG conversion
doc-rst: Break shell command sequences on failure
Documentation/sphinx: make targets independent of Sphinx work for HAVE_SPHINX=0
doc-rst: fixed cleandoc target when used with O=dir
Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree
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21 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"On the kernel side the main changes in this cycle were:- Add Intel Kaby Lake CPU support (Srinivas Pandruvada)
- AMD uncore driver updates for fam17 (Janakarajan Natarajan)
- Intel/PT updates and core events optimizations and cleanups
(Alexander Shishkin)- cgroups events fixes (David Carrillo-Cisneros)
- kprobes improvements (Masami Hiramatsu)
- ... plus misc fixes and updates.
On the tooling side the main changes were:
- Support clang build in tools/{perf,lib/{bpf,traceevent,api}} with
CC=clang, to, for instance, take advantage of better warnings
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo):- Introduce the 'delta-abs' 'perf diff' compute method, that orders
the histogram entries by the absolute value of the percentage delta
for a function in two perf.data files, i.e. the functions that
changed the most (increase or decrease in samples) comes first
(Namhyung Kim)- Add support for parsing Intel uncore vendor event files and add
uncore vendor events for the Intel server processors (Haswell,
Broadwell, IvyBridge), Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) and Broadwell DE
(Andi Kleen)- Introduce 'perf ftrace' a perf front end to the kernel's ftrace
function and function_graph tracer, defaulting to the
"function_graph" tracer, more work will be done in reviving this
effort, forward porting it from its initial patch submission
(Namhyung Kim)- Add 'e' and 'c' hotkeys to expand/collapse call chains for a single
hist entry in the 'perf report' and 'perf top' TUI (Jiri Olsa)- Account thread wait time (off CPU time) separately: sleep, iowait
and preempt, based on the prev_state of the last event, show the
breakdown when using "perf sched timehist --state" (Namhyumg Kim)- Add more triggers to switch the output file (perf.data.TIMESTAMP).
Now, in addition to switching to a different output file when
receiving a SIGUSR2, one can also specify file size and time based
triggers:perf record -a --switch-output=signal
is equivalent to what we had before:
perf record -a --switch-output
While we can also ask for the file to be "sliced" by size, taking
into account that that will happen only when we get woken up by the
kernel, i.e. one has to take into account the --mmap-pages (the
size of the perf mmap ring buffer):perf record -a --switch-output=2G
will break the perf.data output into multiple files limited to 2GB
of samples, right when generating the output.For time based samples, alert() will be used, so to have 1 minute
limited perf.data output files:perf record -a --switch-output=1m
(Jiri Olsa)
- Improve 'perf trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- 'perf kallsyms' toy tool to look for extended symbol information on
the running kernel and demonstrate the machine/thread/symbol APIs
for use in other tools, such as 'perf probe' (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)- ... plus tons of other changes, see the shortlog and Git log for
details"* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (131 commits)
perf tools: Add missing parse_events_error() prototype
perf pmu: Fix check for unset alias->unit array
perf tools: Be consistent on the type of map->symbols[] interator
perf intel pt decoder: clang has no -Wno-override-init
perf evsel: Do not put a variable sized type not at the end of a struct
perf probe: Avoid accessing uninitialized 'map' variable
perf tools: Do not put a variable sized type not at the end of a struct
perf record: Do not put a variable sized type not at the end of a struct
perf tests: Synthesize struct instead of using field after variable sized type
perf bench numa: Make sure dprintf() is not defined
Revert "perf bench futex: Sanitize numeric parameters"
tools lib subcmd: Make it an error to pass a signed value to OPTION_UINTEGER
tools: Set the maximum optimization level according to the compiler being used
tools: Suppress request for warning options not existent in clang
samples/bpf: Reset global variables
samples/bpf: Ignore already processed ELF sections
samples/bpf: Add missing header
perf symbols: dso->name is an array, no need to check it against NULL
perf tests record: No need to test an array against NULL
perf symbols: No need to check if sym->name is NULL
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20 Feb, 2017
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When building a CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION enabled kernel without the
libelf devel package installed, the Makefile prints a warning:"Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel"
But when building an out-of-tree module, the warning doesn't show.
Instead it tries to use objtool, and the build fails with:/bin/sh: ./tools/objtool/objtool: No such file or directory
Make sure the warning and the disabling of objtool occur in all cases,
by moving the CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION checks outside the 'ifeq
($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)' block in the Makefile.Tested-By: Marc MERLIN
Suggested-by: Jessica Yu
Reported-by: Marc MERLIN
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf
Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Fixes: 3b27a0c85d70 ("objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b3088ae4a8698143d4851965793c61fec2135b1f.1487182864.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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Documentation shouldn't have broken links.
sphinx linkcheck builder scans all documents for external links, tries
to open them with urllib2, and writes an overview which ones are broken
and redirected to standard output and to output.txt in the output
directory.Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula
Tested-by: Jani Nikula
Signed-off-by: Rémy Léone
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
14 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Feb, 2017
1 commit
06 Feb, 2017
1 commit
04 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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Some versions of ARM GCC compiler such as Android toolchain throws in a
'-fpic' flag by default. This causes the gcc-goto check script to fail
although some config would have '-fno-pic' flag in the KBUILD_CFLAGS.This patch passes the KBUILD_CFLAGS to the check script so that the
script does not rely on the default config from different compilers.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120234329.78868-1-dtwlin@google.com
Signed-off-by: David Lin
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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…nux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
New features:
- Allow configuring a 'perf ftrace' default --tracer (Taeung Song)
Infrastructure changes:
- Sync tools/arch/{powerpc,arm}/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h and
tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h (Ingo Molnar)- Add BPF program file system pinning APIs and respective
'perf test' entry (Joe Stringer)- Make tools tree support 'make -s' (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Reference count maps in callchains, fixing SEGFAULT when
referencing maps after it is freed (Krister Johansen)- Create for_each_event trace points iterator (Taeung Song)
- Do not consider an error not to have any perfconfig file
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo- Propagate perf_config() errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
30 Jan, 2017
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27 Jan, 2017
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When doing a kernel build with 'make -s', everything is silenced except
the objtool build. That's because the tools tree support for silent
builds is some combination of missing and broken.Three changes are needed to fix it:
- Makefile: propagate '-s' to the sub-make's MAKEFLAGS variable so the
tools Makefiles can see it.- tools/scripts/Makefile.include: fix the tools Makefiles' ability to
recognize '-s'. The MAKE_VERSION and MAKEFLAGS checks are copied from
the top-level Makefile. This silences the "DESCEND objtool" message.- tools/build/Makefile.build: add support to the tools Build files for
recognizing '-s'. Again the MAKE_VERSION and MAKEFLAGS checks are
copied from the top-level Makefile. This silences all the object
compile/link messages.Reported-and-Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Michal Marek
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8967562ef640c3ae9a76da4ae0f4e47df737c34.1484799200.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
23 Jan, 2017
1 commit
16 Jan, 2017
1 commit
09 Jan, 2017
1 commit
02 Jan, 2017
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26 Dec, 2016
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12 Dec, 2016
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05 Dec, 2016
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03 Dec, 2016
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When building a specific target such as bzImage, modules aren't normally
built. However if CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, no built modules
means none of the exported symbols are used and therefore they will all
be trimmed away from the final kernel. A subsequent "make modules" will
fail because modpost cannot find the needed symbols for those modules in
the kernel binary.Let's make sure modules are also built whenever CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
is enabled and that the kernel binary is properly rebuilt accordingly.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before
its empty version is even created. Let's create it at the same time as
the directory holding it is created.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Nov, 2016
1 commit
21 Nov, 2016
1 commit
19 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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Pull kbuild fixes from Michal Marek:
"Here are some regression fixes for kbuild:- modversion support for exported asm symbols (Nick Piggin). The
affected architectures need separate patches adding
asm-prototypes.h.- fix rebuilds of lib-ksyms.o (Nick Piggin)
- -fno-PIE builds (Sebastian Siewior and Borislav Petkov). This is
not a kernel regression, but one of the Debian gcc package.
Nevertheless, it's quite annoying, so I think it should go into
mainline and stable now"* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Steal gcc's pie from the very beginning
kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm ___EXPORT_SYMBOL
x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE
scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE
kbuild: add -fno-PIE
kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuilds
16 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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So Sebastian turned off the PIE for kernel builds but that was too late
- Kbuild.include already uses KBUILD_CFLAGS and trying to disable gcc
options with, say cc-disable-warning, fails:gcc -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs
...
-Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -Wframe-address -c -x c /dev/null -o .31392.tmp
/dev/null:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC modebecause that returns an error and we can't disable the warning. For
example in this case:KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,)
which leads to gcc issuing all those warnings again.
So let's turn off PIE/PIC at the earliest possible moment, when we
declare KBUILD_CFLAGS so that cc-disable-warning picks it up too.Also, we need the $(call cc-option ...) because -fno-PIE is supported
since gcc v3.4 and our lowest supported gcc version is 3.2 right now.Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
14 Nov, 2016
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12 Nov, 2016
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Traditionally, we have always had warnings about uninitialized variables
enabled, as this is part of -Wall, and generally a good idea [1], but it
also always produced false positives, mainly because this is a variation
of the halting problem and provably impossible to get right in all cases
[2].Various people have identified cases that are particularly bad for false
positives, and in commit e74fc973b6e5 ("Turn off -Wmaybe-uninitialized
when building with -Os"), I turned off the warning for any build that
was done with CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. This drastically reduced the number
of false positive warnings in the default build but unfortunately had
the side effect of turning the warning off completely in 'allmodconfig'
builds, which in turn led to a lot of warnings (both actual bugs, and
remaining false positives) to go in unnoticed.With commit 877417e6ffb9 ("Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
definition") enabled the warning again for allmodconfig builds in v4.7
and in v4.8-rc1, I had finally managed to address all warnings I get in
an ARM allmodconfig build and most other maybe-uninitialized warnings
for ARM randconfig builds.However, commit 6e8d666e9253 ("Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning
globally") was merged at the same time and disabled it completely for
all configurations, because of false-positive warnings on x86 that I had
not addressed until then. This caused a lot of actual bugs to get
merged into mainline, and I sent several dozen patches for these during
the v4.9 development cycle. Most of these are actual bugs, some are for
correct code that is safe because it is only called under external
constraints that make it impossible to run into the case that gcc sees,
and in a few cases gcc is just stupid and finds something that can
obviously never happen.I have now done a few thousand randconfig builds on x86 and collected
all patches that I needed to address every single warning I got (I can
provide the combined patch for the other warnings if anyone is
interested), so I hope we can get the warning back and let people catch
the actual bugs earlier.This reverts the change to disable the warning completely and for now
brings it back at the "make W=1" level, so we can get it merged into
mainline without introducing false positives. A follow-up patch enables
it on all levels unless some configuration option turns it off because
of false-positives.Link: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=232 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Better_Uninitialized_Warnings [2]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Nov, 2016
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Debian started to build the gcc with -fPIE by default so the kernel
build ends before it starts properly with:
|kernel/bounds.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC modeAlso add to KBUILD_AFLAGS due to:
|gcc -Wp,-MD,arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/.note.o.d … -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY … vdso/vdso32/note.S
|arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.S:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: -mfentry isn’t supported for 32-bit in combination with -fpicTagging it stable so it is possible to compile recent stable kernels as
well.Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
06 Nov, 2016
1 commit
30 Oct, 2016
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24 Oct, 2016
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16 Oct, 2016
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15 Oct, 2016
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Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
"This update consists of:- Fixes and improvements to existing tests
- Moving code from Documentation to selftests, samples, and tools:
* Moves dnotify_test, prctl, ptp, vDSO, ia64, watchdog, and
networking tests from Documentation to selftests.* Moves mic/mpssd, misc-devices/mei, timers, watchdog, auxdisplay,
and blackfin examples from Documentation to samples.* Moves accounting, laptops/dslm, and pcmcia/crc32hash tools from
Documentation to tools.* Deletes BUILD_DOCSRC and its dependencies"
* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (21 commits)
selftests/futex: Check ANSI terminal color support
Doc: update 00-INDEX files to reflect the runnable code move
samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation
tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation
tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation
tools: move accounting tool from Documentation
samples: move auxdisplay example code from Documentation
samples: move watchdog example code from Documentation
samples: move timers example code from Documentation
samples: move misc-devices/mei example code from Documentation
samples: move mic/mpssd example code from Documentation
selftests: Move networking/timestamping from Documentation
selftests: move watchdog tests from Documentation/watchdog
selftests: move ia64 tests from Documentation/ia64
selftests: move vDSO tests from Documentation/vDSO
selftests: move ptp tests from Documentation/ptp
selftests: move prctl tests from Documentation/prctl
selftests: move dnotify_test from Documentation/filesystems
selftests/timers: Add missing error code assignment before test
selftests/zram: replace ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS
... -
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.
This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
working on a patch to fix this.Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
change prototypes.- Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
Piggin- fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.
- preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections- CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell
- fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
ia64: move exports to definitions
sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
[sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
sparc: move exports to definitions
ppc: move exports to definitions
arm: move exports to definitions
s390: move exports to definitions
m68k: move exports to definitions
alpha: move exports to actual definitions
x86: move exports to actual definitions
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13 Oct, 2016
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This affectively reverts commit 377ccbb48373 ("Makefile: Mute warning
for __builtin_return_address(>0) for tracing only") because it turns out
that it really isn't tracing only - it's all over the tree.We already also had the warning disabled separately for mm/usercopy.c
(which this commit also removes), and it turns out that we will also
want to disable it for get_lock_parent_ip(), that is used for at least
TRACE_IRQFLAGS. Which (when enabled) ends up being all over the tree.Steven Rostedt had a patch that tried to limit it to just the config
options that actually triggered this, but quite frankly, the extra
complexity and abstraction just isn't worth it. We have never actually
had a case where the warning is actually useful, so let's just disable
it globally and not worry about it.Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Anvin
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Move blackfin gptimers-example to samples and remove it from Documentation
Makefile. Update samples Kconfig and Makefile to build gptimers-example.blackfin is the last CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC target in Documentation/Makefile.
Hence this patch also includes changes to remove CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC from
Makefile and lib/Kconfig.debug and updates VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON dependency
on BUILD_DOCSRC.Documentation/Makefile is not deleted to avoid braking make htmldocs and
make distclean.Acked-by: Michal Marek
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan
05 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This is the documentation update pull for the 4.9 merge window.The Sphinx transition is still creating a fair amount of work. Here we
have a number of fixes and, importantly, a proper PDF output solution,
thanks to Jani Nikula, Mauro Carvalho Chehab and Markus Heiser.I've started a couple of new books: a driver API book (based on the
old device-drivers.tmpl) and a development tools book. Both are meant
to show how we can integrate together our existing documentation into
a more coherent and accessible whole. It involves moving some stuff
around and formatting changes, but, I think, the results are worth it.
The good news is that most of our existing Documentation/*.txt files
are *almost* in RST format already; the amount of messing around
required is minimal.And, of course, there's the usual set of updates, typo fixes, and
more"* tag 'docs-4.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (120 commits)
URL changed for Linux Foundation TAB
dax : Fix documentation with respect to struct pages
iio: Documentation: Correct the path used to create triggers.
docs: Remove space-before-label guidance from CodingStyle
docs-rst: add inter-document cross references
Documentation/email-clients.txt: convert it to ReST markup
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: reorder based on timestamp
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add dates for online docs
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: get rid of broken docs
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: move in-kernel docs
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: remove more legacy references
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: add two published books
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: sort books per publication date
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: adjust LDD references
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: some improvements on the ReST output
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Consistent indenting: 4 spaces
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add 4 paper/book references
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Improve layouting of book list
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Remove offline or outdated entries
docs: Clean up bare :: lines
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03 Oct, 2016
1 commit
26 Sep, 2016
1 commit