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2022-09-27net/mlx5: Remove from FPGA IFC file not-needed definitionsLeon Romanovsky2-24/+16
Move IP layout bits definitions to be close to the place that actually uses it, together with removal extra defines that not in-use. Reviewed-by: Raed Salem <raeds@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: Remove unused structsGal Pressman3-23/+0
Remove structs which are no longer used in the driver: mlx5dr_cmd_qp_create_attr mlx5_fs_dr_ns mlx5_pas Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: Remove unused functionsGal Pressman5-72/+0
Remove functions which are no longer used in the driver: mlx5e_ipsec_is_tx_flow mlx5_health_flush get_cqe_enhanced_num_mini_cqes get_cqe_l3_hdr_type mlx5_health_flush mlx5_fs_is_ipsec_flow _mlx5_fs_is_outer_ipproto_flow mlx5_fs_is_outer_tcp_flow mlx5_fs_is_outer_udp_flow mlx5_fs_is_vxlan_flow mlx5_fs_is_outer_ipsec_flow Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: detect and enable bypass port select flow tableLiu, Changcheng1-0/+34
Use port selection capability port_select_flow_table_bypass bit to detect and enable explicit port affinity even when in lag hash mode. Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng <jerrliu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: Lag, enable hash mode by default for all NICsLiu, Changcheng1-8/+9
The firmware supports adding a steering rule to catch egress traffic of the QPs/TISs which are set port affinity explicitly in hash mode. Enable that mode for NICS with 2 ports as well. Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng <jerrliu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: Lag, set active ports if support bypass port select flow tableLiu, Changcheng1-3/+55
active_port bit mask indicates the current active ports. Set bit indicates the port is active. Update active ports info to FW to redirect the QP/TIS from inactive ports to other ports. Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng <jerrliu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27RDMA/mlx5: Don't set tx affinity when lag is in hash modeLiu, Changcheng3-0/+29
In hash mode, without setting tx affinity explicitly, the port select flow table decides which port is used for the traffic. If port_select_flow_table_bypass capability is supported and tx affinity is set explicitly for QP/TIS, they will be added into the explicit affinity table in FW to check which port is used for the traffic. 1. The overloaded explicit affinity table may affect performance. To avoid this, do not set tx affinity explicitly by default. 2. The packets of the same flow need to be transmitted on the same port. Because the packets of the same flow use different QPs in slow & fast path, it shouldn't set tx affinity explicitly for these QPs. Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng <jerrliu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: add IFC bits for bypassing port select flow tableLiu, Changcheng1-2/+7
port_select_flow_table_bypass - When set, device supports bypass port select flow table. active_port - Bitmask indicates the current active ports in PORT_SELECT_FT LAG. MLX5_SET_HCA_CAP_OP_MODE_PORT_SELECTION - op_mod to operate PORT_SELECTION_Capabilities. Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng <jerrliu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: Add support for NPPS with real time modeAya Levin2-20/+121
Add support for setting NPPS. NPPS is currently available in REAL_TIME_CLOCK mode only. In addition allow the user to set the pulse duration. When NPPS pulse duration is not set explicitly by the user, driver set it to 50% of the NPPS period. Signed-off-by: Aya Levin <ayal@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27net/mlx5: Expose NPPS related registersAya Levin1-4/+14
Add management capability bits indicating firmware may support N pulses per second. Add corresponding fields in MTPPS register. Signed-off-by: Aya Levin <ayal@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
2022-09-27i2c: mlxbf: add multi slave functionalityAsmaa Mnebhi1-170/+148
Support the multi slave functionality which enables the BlueField to be registered at up to 16 i2c slave addresses. Reviewed-by: Khalil Blaiech <kblaiech@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
2022-09-27i2c: mlxbf: support lock mechanismAsmaa Mnebhi1-5/+39
Linux is not the only entity using the BlueField I2C busses so support a lock mechanism provided by hardware to avoid issues when multiple entities are trying to access the same bus. The lock is acquired whenever written explicitely or the lock register is read. So make sure it is always released at the end of a successful or failed transaction. Fixes: b5b5b32081cd206b (i2c: mlxbf: I2C SMBus driver for Mellanox BlueField SoC) Reviewed-by: Khalil Blaiech <kblaiech@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
2022-09-27Merge branch 'master' into i2c/for-mergewindowWolfram Sang410-3078/+3416
2022-09-27MIPS: Lantiq: vmmc: fix compile break introduced by gpiod patchDmitry Torokhov1-3/+5
"MIPS: Lantiq: switch vmmc to use gpiod API" patch introduced compile errors, this patch fixes them. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
2022-09-27Documentation: devres: add missing SPI helperYang Yingliang1-0/+2
Add devm_spi_alloc_master() and devm_spi_alloc_slave() to devres.rst. They are introduced by commit 5e844cc37a5c ("spi: Introduce device-managed SPI controller allocation"). Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923141803.75734-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: devres: add missing PINCTRL helpersYang Yingliang1-0/+2
Add devm_pinctrl_get_select() and devm_pinctrl_register_and_init() to devres.rst. Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220922153737.2863951-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs: hugetlbpage.rst: fix a typo of hugepage sizeHoi Pok Wu1-1/+1
should be kB instead of Kb Signed-off-by: Hoi Pok Wu <wuhoipok@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220922030645.9719-1-wuhoipok@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: Add new translation of admin-guide/bootconfig.rstWu XiangCheng2-1/+294
The last English version used: commit 2f51efc6b71d ("docs: bootconfig: Add how to embed the bootconfig into kernel") Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/386249dc333a3e40b80c3a9483d60d2bfd24a6c4.1663850554.git.bobwxc@email.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: Update zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst to 6.0-rc2Wu XiangCheng1-77/+20
* update to commit ea052e7257bd ("docs: admin-guide: for kernel bugs refer to other kernel documentation") We are in 6.x now ;) Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7f6e0b8961f79befa62e0070f9682ab3abde8622.1663850554.git.bobwxc@email.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: core-api: Add packing Chinese translationBinbin Zhou2-1/+161
Translate core-api/packing.rst into Chinese. Last English version used: commit 1ec779b9fabc ("docs: packing: move it to core-api book and adjust markups"). Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/96b19575ca7e9e23941e8a5ef92120f1bffbc518.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: core-api: Add generic-radix-tree Chinese translationBinbin Zhou2-1/+24
Translate core-api/generic-radix-tree.rst into Chinese. Last English version used: commit ba20ba2e3743 ("generic radix trees"). Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aad94e2a053ae021eb4d63240690b05c2f3e8dec.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: core-api: Add circular-buffers Chinese translationBinbin Zhou2-1/+211
Translate core-api/circular-buffers.rst into Chinese. Last English version used: commit 714b6904e23e ("doc: Remove ".vnet" from paulmck email addresses"). Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6b94f233dd4b4a9e6da6fa2f86a9b1d32f104004.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: core-api: Add idr Chinese translationBinbin Zhou2-1/+81
Translate core-api/idr.rst into Chinese. Last English version used: commit 85656ec193e9 ("IDR: Note that the IDR API is deprecated"). Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9f578ea087df7ef8665fc08541d208e7429176ec.1660881950.git.zhoubinbin@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs: x86: replace do_IRQ int the entry_64.rst with common_interrupt()Tuo Cao1-2/+2
do_IRQ has been replaced by common_interrupt in commit fa5e5c409213 ("x86/entry: Use idtentry for interrupts"). Signed-off-by: Tuo Cao <91tuocao@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915150155.9908-1-91tuocao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27usb: chipidea: clarify Documentation/ABI textRandy Dunlap1-3/+3
Fix grammar and improve readability of chipidea-usb2 text. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827203217.7837-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: W1: minor typo correctionsRandy Dunlap2-2/+2
Correct one typo/spello and remove one duplicated word in the W1 documentation. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220828002845.7022-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: fb: udlfb: clean up text and formattingRandy Dunlap1-8/+15
Clean up punctuation, spelling, and formatting for command line usage and modprobe config file usage in udlfb.rst. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220828192501.14232-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/core-api: expand Fedora instructions for GCC pluginsRobert Elliott1-1/+18
In Fedora 36, cross-compiling an allmodconfig configuration for other architectures on x86 fails with this problem: In file included from ../scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:95, from ../scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c:78: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/12/plugin/include/builtins.h:23:10: fatal error: mpc.h: No such file or directory 23 | #include <mpc.h> | ^~~~~~~ compilation terminated. In that distro, that header file is available in the separate libmpc-devel package. Although future versions of Fedora might correctly mark that dependency, mention this additional package. To help detect such problems ahead of time, describe the gcc -print-file-name=plugin command that is used by scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig to detect plugins [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjjiYjCp61gdAMpDOsUBU-A2hFFKJoVx5VAC7yV4K6WYg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Fixes: 43e96ef8b70c50f ("docs/core-api: Add Fedora instructions for GCC plugins"); Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827193836.2582079-1-elliott@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: spufs: correct a duplicate word typoRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix a typo of "or" which should be "of". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829232908.32437-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: Update zh_CN/process/coding-style.rst to 6.0-rc2Wu XiangCheng1-72/+202
* update to commit c04639a7d2fb ("coding-style.rst: trivial: fix location of driver model macros") Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yw2ewM4wfaDDLjTk@bobwxc.mipc Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre docLin Yujun1-0/+1
commit 7c693f54c873691 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS") adds the "ibrs " option in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt but omits it to Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst, add it. Signed-off-by: Lin Yujun <linyujun809@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830123614.23007-1-linyujun809@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: filesystems: correct possessive "its"Randy Dunlap4-8/+7
Change occurrences of "it's" that are possessive to "its" so that they don't read as "it is". For f2fs.rst, reword one description for better clarity. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901002828.25102-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: stable: Document alternative for referring upstream commit hashSalvatore Bonaccorso1-0/+6
Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream commit hash. Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901184328.4075701-1-carnil@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs: update mediator information in CoC docsShuah Khan1-1/+1
Update mediator information in the CoC interpretation document. Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901212319.56644-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: add dt kernel-api translationYanteng Si2-4/+59
Translte .../devicetree/kernel-api.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/35fd1b5801d7191e078937908008115f8949aac3.1662449105.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: add dt overlay-notes translationYanteng Si2-4/+141
Translate .../devicetree/overlay-notes.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b957580e448e2d0ab7917644c8f8f1614060b20a.1662449105.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: add dt dynamic-resolution-notes translationYanteng Si2-1/+32
Translate .../devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d8b7c06fe8fdb58cb2ec6989e09f9999aca2d8d1.1662449105.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: add dt changesets translationYanteng Si2-1/+39
Translate .../devicetree/changesets.rst into Chinese. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/07d23cedda1e2cd8cf40d68059024d116f8d004e.1662449105.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: add PCI acpi-info translationYanteng Si3-9/+145
Translate .../PCI/acpi-info.rst into Chinese. Add PCI into .../zh_CN/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f07ba17ae9c6d728d6135ecc0577a932e9836fba.1662449105.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation: process/submitting-patches: misspelling "mesages"Rong Tao1-2/+2
Fix spelling mistakes, "mesages" should be spelled "messages". Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rtoax@foxmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_924BF0B25425E2D5673409D1CF604F682505@qq.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Delete duplicate words from kernel docsAkhil Raj6-6/+6
I have deleted duplicate words like to, guest, trace, when, we Signed-off-by: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829065239.4531-1-lf32.dev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs: admin-guide: for kernel bugs refer to other kernel documentationLukas Bulwahn1-81/+6
The current section 'If something goes wrong' makes a number of suggestions for debugging, bug hunting and reporting issues, which are quite briefly described in that section. However, the suggestions are also well covered in other kernel documentation or sometimes simply outdated. Here, each suggestion in that section is summarized, and then followed with its assessment, and the derived action for each suggestion: - use MAINTAINERS and mailing list: covered in 'Reporting issues', summarized in the short guide, detailed in its further section. Reporting issues even provides some specific examples that guides readers well through the needed steps. Refer to 'Reporting issues'. - contact Linus Torvalds: probably outdated as currently described. nevertheless covered in 'Reporting issues'. Reporting issues points out to contact the relevant kernel maintainers first, and after some patience and failed attempts with those maintainers, contacting Linus Torvalds might be okay. Refer to 'Reporting issues'. - tell what kernel, how to duplicate, the setup, if the problem is new or old and when did you notice: covered in 'Reporting issues', especially in Step-by-step guide how to report issues to the kernel maintainers. Refer to 'Reporting issues'. - duplicate kernel bug reports exactly: covered in 'Reporting issues', especially in Write and send the report. Refer to 'Reporting issues'. - read 'Bug hunting': keep this reference. Refer to 'Bug hunting'. - compile the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS: covered in 'Reporting issues', especially in Decode failure messages. Refer to 'Reporting issues'. - alternatively, use ksymoops: ksymoops at the mentioned URL seems not to be maintained anymore. It was released roughly once a year until version 2.4.11 in 2005, but has not seen a new release since then. The information in ./scripts/ksymoops/README is from 1999, and does not give more insight on its actual maintenance state either. Ksymoops is mentioned as system utility in changes.rst, but also not recommended there. Drop the explanation on using ksymoops. - alternatively, lookup dump manually with the EIP and nm to determine the function in which the kernel crashes: this method seems already a quite advanced and low-level debugging method. Even all the further references on bug hunting and debugging do not mention it. Drop this alternative method and limit mentioning methods explained in the other existing kernel documentation. - read 'Reporting issues': keep this reference. Refer to 'Reporting issues'. - use gdb for debugging: some specific details, e.g., edit arch/x86/Makefile, are probably outdated or limited to one (historic important) setup. Using gdb is covered in 'Bug hunting', 'Debugging kernel and modules via gdb' and 'Using kgdb, kdb and the kernel debugger internals'. Refer to those three documents. Overall, it is sufficient to refer to reporting-issues.rst, bug-hunting.rst, gdb-kernel-debugging.rst and kgdb.rst and this way cover the existing suggestions. 'Reporting issues' is quite new and probably up to date. 'Bug hunting', 'Debugging kernel and modules via gdb' and 'Using kgdb, kdb and the kernel debugger internals' might need some revisit and update, but they are generally in an acceptable state for referring to them. Replace the existing suggestions by reference to other existing kernel documentation covering those suggestions---partly even nicely summarized and then explained in greater detail. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220720041325.15693-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs: admin-guide: do not mention the 'run a.out user programs' featureLukas Bulwahn1-2/+0
Running a.out user programs with the latest kernel release is a very rare and uncommon use case nowadays. The support of a.out user programs is only remaining for the alpha architecture and is not defined and activated in the architecture's Kconfig (so even the activation of this support requires to modify the Kconfig file and not just kernel build configuration). The discussion on a.out support in 2019 (see Link) shows that the support of a.out user programs is just remaining for a special corner case from some (alpha architecture) users. There is no need to point out and mention this special feature to the general audience of kernel users. Delete the reference to this historic and special feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgt7M6yA5BJCJo0nF22WgPJnN8CvViL9CAJmd+S+Civ6w@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220720041325.15693-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Documentation/ABI: correct possessive "its" typosRandy Dunlap5-5/+5
Correct all uses of "it's" that are meant to be possessive "its". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220801025207.29971-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27Remove duplicate words inside documentationAkhil Raj6-7/+7
I have removed repeated `the` inside the documentation Signed-off-by: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827145359.32599-1-lf32.dev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/conf.py: Respect env variable SPHINX_IMGMATHAkira Yokosawa1-2/+14
On some distros with coarse-grained packaging policy, dvipng is installed along with latex. In such cases, math rendering will use imgmath by default. It is possible to override the choice by specifying the option string of "-D html_math_renderer='mathjax'" to sphinx-build (Sphinx >= 1.8). To provide developers an easier-to-use knob, add code for an env variable "SPHINX_IMGMATH" which overrides the automatic choice of math renderer for html docs. SPHINX_IMGMATH=yes : Load imgmath even if dvipng is not found SPHINX_IMGMATH=no : Don't load imgmath (fall back to mathjax) Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5a582b2b-d51c-a062-36b2-19479cf68fab@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/conf.py: Treat mathjax as fallback math rendererAkira Yokosawa1-1/+26
Currently, math expressions using the "math::" directive or the ":math:" role of Sphinx need the imgmath extension for proper rendering in html and epub builds. imgmath requires dvipng (and latex). Otherwise, "make htmldocs" will complain of missing commands. As a matter of fact, the mathjax extension is loaded by default since Sphinx v1.8 and it is good enough for html docs without any dependency on texlive packages. Stop loading the imgmath extension for html docs unless requirements for imgmath are met. To find out whether required commands are available, add a helper find_command(), which is a wrapper of shutil.which(). For epub docs, keep the same behavior of always loading imgmath. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a6a877fc-dc93-2bda-a6d3-37001d99942a@gmail.com [jc: Took out the writing of the math_renderer decision] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_CN: Update zh_CN/process/submit-checklist.rst to 6.0-rc2Wu XiangCheng1-39/+45
* update to commit 163ba35ff371 ("doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line") Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ywli7VfhQVPHKiGw@bobwxc.mipc Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs: scheduler: Update new path for the sysctl knobsLukasz Luba2-2/+2
Add missing update for the documentation bit of some scheduler knob. The knobs have been moved to /debug/sched/ location (with adjusted names). Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Tested-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816121907.841-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27docs/zh_TW: Remove oops-tracingYanteng Si1-212/+0
The English version of oops-tracing has been refactored and has been translated into Chinese. Let's remove them. Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0d22733cea474b0a3784f8de6b4bc4841fbaba77.1661431365.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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