Now that the build system automatically marks up function references, we
don't have to clutter the source files, so take it out.
[Some paragraphs could now benefit from refilling, but that was left out to
avoid obscuring the real changes.]
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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
This document is used by multiple architectures:
$ echo $(git grep -l pkey_mprotect arch|cut -d'/' -f 2|sort|uniq)
alpha arm arm64 ia64 m68k microblaze mips parisc powerpc s390 sh sparc x86 xtensa
So, let's move it to the core book and adjust the links to it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
Some times integer power functions, such as int_sqrt(), are needed, but
there is nothing about them in the generated documentation.
Fill the gap by adding a reference to the corresponding exported functions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some times string helpers are needed, but there is nothing about them
in the generated documentation.
Fill the gap by adding a reference to string_helpers.c exported functions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:
- Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations
- Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph
- Various build-script fixes
- A new document on memory models
- RST conversion of the live-patching docs
- The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
doc:it_IT: translation alignment
doc: fix typo in PGP guide
dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
...
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow state reset of printk_once() calls.
- Prevent crashes when dereferencing invalid pointers in vsprintf().
Only the first byte is checked for simplicity.
- Make vsprintf warnings consistent and inlined.
- Treewide conversion of obsolete %pf, %pF to %ps, %pF printf
modifiers.
- Some clean up of vsprintf and test_printf code.
* tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
lib/vsprintf: Make function pointer_string static
vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages
vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string()
vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format()
vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings
vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0
vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer()
printk: Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset
treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
lib/test_printf: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
We already prevent crash when dereferencing some obviously broken
pointers. But the handling is not consistent. Sometimes we print "(null)"
only for pure NULL pointer, sometimes for pointers in the first
page and sometimes also for pointers in the last page (error codes).
Note that printk() call this code under logbuf_lock. Any recursive
printks are redirected to the printk_safe implementation and the messages
are stored into per-CPU buffers. These buffers might be eventually flushed
in printk_safe_flush_on_panic() but it is not guaranteed.
This patch adds a check using probe_kernel_read(). It is not a full-proof
test. But it should help to see the error message in 99% situations where
the kernel would silently crash otherwise.
Also it makes the error handling unified for "%s" and the many %p*
specifiers that need to read the data from a given address. We print:
+ (null) when accessing data on pure pure NULL address
+ (efault) when accessing data on an invalid address
It does not affect the %p* specifiers that just print the given address
in some form, namely %pF, %pf, %pS, %ps, %pB, %pK, %px, and plain %p.
Note that we print (efault) from security reasons. In fact, the real
address can be seen only by %px or eventually %pK.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-9-pmladek@suse.com
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- the rest of MM
- remove flex_arrays, replace with new simple radix-tree implementation
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (38 commits)
Drop flex_arrays
sctp: convert to genradix
proc: commit to genradix
generic radix trees
selinux: convert to kvmalloc
md: convert to kvmalloc
openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc
of: fix kmemleak crash caused by imbalance in early memory reservation
mm: memblock: update comments and kernel-doc
memblock: split checks whether a region should be skipped to a helper function
memblock: remove memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags
memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants
memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic
treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
swiotlb: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
mm/percpu: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
sparc: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
ia64: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
arch: don't memset(0) memory returned by memblock_alloc()
...
Pull XArray updates from Matthew Wilcox:
"This pull request changes the xa_alloc() API. I'm only aware of one
subsystem that has started trying to use it, and we agree on the fixup
as part of the merge.
The xa_insert() error code also changed to match xa_alloc() (EEXIST to
EBUSY), and I added xa_alloc_cyclic(). Beyond that, the usual
bugfixes, optimisations and tweaking.
I now have a git tree with all users of the radix tree and IDR
converted over to the XArray that I'll be feeding to maintainers over
the next few weeks"
* tag 'xarray-5.1-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax:
XArray: Fix xa_reserve for 2-byte aligned entries
XArray: Fix xa_erase of 2-byte aligned entries
XArray: Use xa_cmpxchg to implement xa_reserve
XArray: Fix xa_release in allocating arrays
XArray: Mark xa_insert and xa_reserve as must_check
XArray: Add cyclic allocation
XArray: Redesign xa_alloc API
XArray: Add support for 1s-based allocation
XArray: Change xa_insert to return -EBUSY
XArray: Update xa_erase family descriptions
XArray tests: RCU lock prohibits GFP_KERNEL
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
adjustments from Thomas"
* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is"
...
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow to sort mixed lines by an extra information about the caller
- Remove no longer used LOG_PREFIX.
- Some clean up and documentation update.
* tag 'printk-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
printk/docs: Add extra integer types to printk-formats
printk: Remove no longer used LOG_PREFIX.
lib/vsprintf: Remove %pCr remnant in comment
printk: Pass caller information to log_store().
printk: Add caller information to printk() output.
Jason feels this is clearer, and it saves a function and an exported
symbol.
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This differs slightly from the IDR equivalent in five ways.
1. It can allocate up to UINT_MAX instead of being limited to INT_MAX,
like xa_alloc(). Also like xa_alloc(), it will write to the 'id'
pointer before placing the entry in the XArray.
2. The 'next' cursor is allocated separately from the XArray instead
of being part of the IDR. This saves memory for all the users which
do not use the cyclic allocation API and suits some users better.
3. It returns -EBUSY instead of -ENOSPC.
4. It will attempt to wrap back to the minimum value on memory allocation
failure as well as on an -EBUSY error, assuming that a user would
rather allocate a small ID than suffer an ID allocation failure.
5. It reports whether it has wrapped, which is important to some users.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
A lot of places want to allocate IDs starting at 1 instead of 0.
While the xa_alloc() API supports this, it's not very efficient if lots
of IDs are allocated, due to having to walk down to the bottom of the
tree to see if ID 1 is available, then all the way over to the next
non-allocated ID. This method marks ID 0 as being occupied which wastes
one slot in the XArray, but preserves xa_empty() as working.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Userspace translates EEXIST to "File exists" which isn't a very good
error message for the problem. "Device or resource busy" is a better
indication of what went wrong.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
sphinx emits warning
WARNING: undefined label: memory-allocation ...
This seems to be caused by the use of a hyphen in the label name instead
of an underscore. Using an underscore for the label name and the
reference clears the warning.
Use underscore not hyphen in label and reference.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Neither file contains any kerneldoc comments, so including them generates
these warnings in the docs build:
./include/linux/rcupdate_wait.h:1: warning: no structured comments found
./include/linux/rcutree.h:1: warning: no structured comments found
Remove them and make life a little quieter.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix the mismatch between "Useful GFP flag combinations" section naming in
the DOC: section in include/linux/gfp.h and
Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst. This brings in the documentation,
and eliminates one warning:
./include/linux/gfp.h:1: warning: no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
[jc: tweaked changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mention that when a part of a slab cache might be exported to the
userspace, the cache should be created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy()
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
xa_insert() should treat reserved entries as occupied, not as available.
Also, it should treat requests to insert a NULL pointer as a request
to reserve the slot. Add xa_insert_bh() and xa_insert_irq() for
completeness.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.0-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
doc: filesystems: fix bad references to nonexistent ext4.rst file
Documentation/admin-guide: update URL of LKML information link
Docs/kernel-api.rst: Remove blk-tag.c reference
After 7ca0192646, legacy rq tagging was removed, so block/blk-tag.c
does not exists anymore. When generating pdfdocs, sphinx complains about
this missing file:
Error: Cannot open file ./block/blk-tag.c
Error: Cannot open file ./block/blk-tag.c
Error: Cannot open file ./block/blk-tag.c
Error: Cannot open file ./block/blk-tag.c
So remove blk-tag.c traces from kernel-api.rst file to silence these
warnings.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
"Subsystem:
- new %ptR printk format
- rename core files
- allow registration of multiple nvmem devices
New driver:
- i.MX system controller RTC
Driver updates:
- abx80x: handle voltage ioctls, correct binding doc
- m41t80: correct month in alarm reads
- pcf85363: add pcf85263 support
- pcf8523: properly handle battery low flag
- s3c: limit alarm to one year in the future as ALMYEAR is broken
- sun6i: rework clock output binding"
* tag 'rtc-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (54 commits)
rtc: rename core files
rtc: nvmem: fix possible use after free
rtc: add i.MX system controller RTC support
dt-bindings: fsl: scu: add rtc binding
rtc: pcf2123: Add Microcrystal rv2123
rtc: class: reimplement devm_rtc_device_register
rtc: enforce rtc_timer_init private_data type
rtc: abx80x: Implement RTC_VL_READ,CLR ioctls
rtc: pcf85363: Add support for NXP pcf85263 rtc
dt-bindings: rtc: pcf85363: Document pcf85263 real-time clock
rtc: pcf8523: don't return invalid date when battery is low
dt-bindings: rtc: use a generic node name for ds1307
PM: Switch to use %ptR
m68k/mac: Switch to use %ptR
Input: hp_sdc_rtc - Switch to use %ptR
rtc: tegra: Switch to use %ptR
rtc: s5m: Switch to use %ptR
rtc: s3c: Switch to use %ptR
rtc: rx8025: Switch to use %ptR
rtc: rx6110: Switch to use %ptR
...
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document
on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the
memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup
documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes.
As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of
Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments"
* tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits)
docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure
configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation
docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section
slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc
doc:process: add links where missing
docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured
x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup
Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting
doc🇮🇹 add some process/* translations
doc🇮🇹 fixes in process/1.Intro
Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text
Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file
scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing
Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst
Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation
Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior
Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation
...
Several functions in mm/slab_common.c have kernel-doc comments, it makes
perfect sense to link them to the MM API reference.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The mm-api.rst covers variety of memory management APIs under "More Memory
Management Functions" section. The descriptions included there are in a
random order there are quite a few of them which makes the section too
long.
Regrouping the documentation by subject and splitting the long "More Memory
Management Functions" section into several smaller sections makes the
generated html more usable.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
These convenience wrappers match the other _irq and _bh wrappers we
already have. It turns out I'd already open-coded xa_cmpxchg_irq()
in the shmem code, so convert that.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:
| Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
| formal, and "while" is the common word.
|
| [...]
|
| Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
| use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
| uses?
dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.
Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I just went looking for the memory allocation guide in the MM docs instead
of in the core API. For the benefit of the next person who makes that
mistake, link to it from the MM docs.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
For allocating XArrays, it makes sense to distinguish beteen erasing an
entry and storing NULL. Storing NULL keeps the index allocated with a
NULL pointer associated with it while xa_erase() frees the index. Some
existing IDR users rely on this ability.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
These convenience wrappers disable interrupts while taking the spinlock.
A number of drivers would otherwise have to open-code these functions.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
The xa_reserve() function was a little unusual in that it attempted to
be callable for all kinds of locking scenarios. Make it look like the
other APIs with __xa_reserve, xa_reserve_bh and xa_reserve_irq variants.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
