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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2022-01-10 11:50:43 +0100 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2022-01-27 11:32:40 -0700 |
commit | bf026e2e316ba57135b70e8ce591276239c7b2cf (patch) | |
tree | fbf1785916d0e9a55f8285965a6431f9955aef96 /Documentation/core-api/index.rst | |
parent | docs/zh_CN: Add opp Chinese translation (diff) | |
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Documentation: Fill the gaps about entry/noinstr constraints
The entry/exit handling for exceptions, interrupts, syscalls and KVM is
not really documented except for some comments.
Fill the gaps.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
Co-developed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Changes since v3:
- s/nointr/noinstr/
Changes since v2:
- No big content changes, just style corrections, so it should be
pretty clean at this stage. In the light of this, I kept Mark's
Reviewed-by.
- Paul's style and paragraph re-writes
- Randy's style comments
- Add links to transition type sections
Documentation/core-api/entry.rst | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 8 +
2 files changed, 269 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/entry.rst
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220110105044.94423-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/index.rst')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst index 5de2c7a4b1b3..972d46a5ddf6 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst @@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel. timekeeping errseq +Low level entry and exit +======================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + entry + Concurrency primitives ====================== |