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2019-07-09Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...
2019-06-25timekeeping: Boot should be boottime for coarse ns accessorJason A. Donenfeld1-1/+1
Somewhere in all the patchsets before, this cleanup got lost. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190624091539.13512-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
2019-06-22timekeeping: Add missing _ns functions for coarse accessorsJason A. Donenfeld1-3/+7
This further unifies the accessors for the fast and coarse functions, so that the same types of functions are available for each. There was also a bit of confusion with the documentation, which prior advertised a function that has never existed. Finally, the vanilla ktime_get_coarse() was omitted from the API originally, so this fills this oversight. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621203249.3909-3-Jason@zx2c4.com
2019-06-22timekeeping: Use proper clock specifier names in functionsJason A. Donenfeld1-1/+1
This makes boot uniformly boottime and tai uniformly clocktai, to address the remaining oversights. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621203249.3909-2-Jason@zx2c4.com
2019-06-07Documentation: fix typo CLOCK_MONONOTNIC_COARSEAurelien Thierry1-1/+1
Fix typo in documentation file timekeeping.rst: CLOCK_MONONOTNIC_COARSE should be CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Thierry <aurelien.thierry@quoscient.io> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-23Documentation: document ktime_get_*() APIsArnd Bergmann1-0/+185
As Dave Chinner points out, we don't have a proper documentation for the ktime_get() family of interfaces, making it rather unclear which of the over 30 (!) interfaces one should actually use in a driver or elsewhere in the kernel. I wrote up an explanation from how I personally see the interfaces, documenting what each of the functions do and hopefully making it a bit clearer which should be used where. This is the first time I tried writing .rst format documentation, so in addition to any mistakes in the content, I probably also introduce nonstandard formatting ;-) I first tried to add an extra section to Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt, but this is currently not included in the generated API, and it seems useful to have the API docs as part of what gets generated in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/index.html#core-utilities instead, so I started a new file there. I also considered adding the documentation inline in the include/linux/timekeeping.h header, but couldn't figure out how to do that in a way that would result both in helpful inline comments as well as readable html output, so I settled for the latter, with a small note pointing to it from the header. Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>