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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2022-01-10 11:50:43 +0100
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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> ---- 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>
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@@ -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
======================