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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-29 15:27:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-29 15:27:31 -0800
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Merge tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's still a couple of things of note: - Conversion of the NFS documentation to RST - A new document on how to help with documentation (and a maintainer profile entry too) Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits) docs: filesystems: add overlayfs to index.rst docs: usb: remove some broken references scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection zram: correct documentation about sysfs node of huge page writeback Documentation: zram: various fixes in zram.rst Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation docs: Keep up with the location of NoUri Documentation: Call out example SYM_FUNC_* usage as x86-specific Documentation: nfs: fault_injection: convert to ReST Documentation: nfs: pnfs-scsi-server: convert to ReST Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST Documentation: nfs: idmapper: convert to ReST Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST Documentation: nfs-rdma: convert to ReST Documentation: nfsroot.rst: COSMETIC: refill a paragraph Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST Documentation: convert nfs.txt to ReST Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
index 692ce57ac140..c9c201596c3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
@@ -69,11 +69,12 @@ Protocol 2.13 (Kernel 3.14) Support 32- and 64-bit flags being set in
xloadflags to support booting a 64-bit kernel from 32-bit
EFI
-Protocol 2.14: BURNT BY INCORRECT COMMIT ae7e1238e68f2a472a125673ab506d49158c1889
+Protocol 2.14 BURNT BY INCORRECT COMMIT
+ ae7e1238e68f2a472a125673ab506d49158c1889
(x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header)
DO NOT USE!!! ASSUME SAME AS 2.13.
-Protocol 2.15: (Kernel 5.5) Added the kernel_info and kernel_info.setup_type_max.
+Protocol 2.15 (Kernel 5.5) Added the kernel_info and kernel_info.setup_type_max.
============= ============================================================
.. note::
@@ -834,14 +835,14 @@ Protocol: 2.09+
chunks of memory are occupied by kernel data.
Thus setup_indirect struct and SETUP_INDIRECT type were introduced in
- protocol 2.15.
+ protocol 2.15::
- struct setup_indirect {
- __u32 type;
- __u32 reserved; /* Reserved, must be set to zero. */
- __u64 len;
- __u64 addr;
- };
+ struct setup_indirect {
+ __u32 type;
+ __u32 reserved; /* Reserved, must be set to zero. */
+ __u64 len;
+ __u64 addr;
+ };
The type member is a SETUP_INDIRECT | SETUP_* type. However, it cannot be
SETUP_INDIRECT itself since making the setup_indirect a tree structure
@@ -849,19 +850,19 @@ Protocol: 2.09+
and stack space can be limited in boot contexts.
Let's give an example how to point to SETUP_E820_EXT data using setup_indirect.
- In this case setup_data and setup_indirect will look like this:
-
- struct setup_data {
- __u64 next = 0 or <addr_of_next_setup_data_struct>;
- __u32 type = SETUP_INDIRECT;
- __u32 len = sizeof(setup_data);
- __u8 data[sizeof(setup_indirect)] = struct setup_indirect {
- __u32 type = SETUP_INDIRECT | SETUP_E820_EXT;
- __u32 reserved = 0;
- __u64 len = <len_of_SETUP_E820_EXT_data>;
- __u64 addr = <addr_of_SETUP_E820_EXT_data>;
+ In this case setup_data and setup_indirect will look like this::
+
+ struct setup_data {
+ __u64 next = 0 or <addr_of_next_setup_data_struct>;
+ __u32 type = SETUP_INDIRECT;
+ __u32 len = sizeof(setup_data);
+ __u8 data[sizeof(setup_indirect)] = struct setup_indirect {
+ __u32 type = SETUP_INDIRECT | SETUP_E820_EXT;
+ __u32 reserved = 0;
+ __u64 len = <len_of_SETUP_E820_EXT_data>;
+ __u64 addr = <addr_of_SETUP_E820_EXT_data>;
+ }
}
- }
.. note::
SETUP_INDIRECT | SETUP_NONE objects cannot be properly distinguished
@@ -964,7 +965,7 @@ expected to copy into a setup_data chunk.
All kernel_info data should be part of this structure. Fixed size data have to
be put before kernel_info_var_len_data label. Variable size data have to be put
after kernel_info_var_len_data label. Each chunk of variable size data has to
-be prefixed with header/magic and its size, e.g.:
+be prefixed with header/magic and its size, e.g.::
kernel_info:
.ascii "LToP" /* Header, Linux top (structure). */