user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl, branch v4.4.4

Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()

2015-06-04T22:39:46Z

Current documentation over use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() only acknowledges functions which are "an internal implementation issue, and not really an interface". In practice these days though we have some maintainers taking on preferences to require all new functionality go in with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). A maintainer asking developers to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for new functionality tends to be a well accepted and understood position that maintainers can take and typically requires the maintainers educating contributing developers on their own positions and requirements. Developers who submit code to maintainers not familiar with these preferences as optional for new functionality need explicit guidence though as existing documentation does not acknowledge this as a valid possibility. Without this being documented some maintainers are reluctant to accept new functionality with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). This extends the use case documentation for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to acknowledge acceptance for new functionality. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez [jc: wording tweaked with permission] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

2014-04-07T23:38:06Z

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - zram updates - zswap updates - exit - procfs - exec - wait - crash dump - lib/idr - rapidio - adfs, affs, bfs, ufs - cris - Kconfig things - initramfs - small amount of IPC material - percpu enhancements - early ioremap support - various other misc things * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (156 commits) MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache() doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug arm64: add early_ioremap support arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot x86: use generic early_ioremap mm: create generic early_ioremap() support x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount. mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node percpu: add raw_cpu_ops slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add ...

asm/system.h: clean asm/system.h from docs

2014-04-07T23:36:11Z

Clean asm/system.h from docs as nothing should refer to that header anymore. Signed-off-by: David Howells Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: remove sleep_on() and friends

2014-04-07T18:24:06Z

This is the final piece in the puzzle, as all patches to remove the last users of \(interruptible_\|\)sleep_on\(_timeout\|\) have made it into the 3.15 merge window. The work was long overdue, and this interface in particular should not have survived the BKL removal that was done a couple of years ago. Citing Jon Corbet from http://lwn.net/2001/0201/kernel.php3": "[...] it was suggested that the janitors look for and fix all code that calls sleep_on() [...] since (1) almost all such code is incorrect, and (2) Linus has agreed that those functions should be removed in the 2.5 development series". We haven't quite made it for 2.5, but maybe we can merge this for 3.15. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-02-22T01:40:58Z

Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "Assorted tiny fixes queued in trivial tree" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (22 commits) DocBook: update EXPORT_SYMBOL entry to point at export.h Documentation: update top level 00-INDEX file with new additions ARM: at91/ide: remove unsused at91-ide Kconfig entry percpu_counter.h: comment code for better readability x86, efi: fix comment typo in head_32.S IB: cxgb3: delay freeing mem untill entirely done with it net: mvneta: remove unneeded version.h include time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more pcmcia: avoid static analysis complaint about use-after-free fs/jfs: Fix typo in comment : 'how may' -> 'how many' of: add missing documentation for of_platform_populate() btrfs: remove unnecessary cur_trans set before goto loop in join_transaction sound: soc: Fix typo in sound/codecs treewide: Fix typo in various drivers btrfs: fix comment typos Update ibmvscsi module name in Kconfig. powerpc: fix typo (utilties -> utilities) of: fix spelling mistake in comment h8300: Fix home page URL in h8300/README xtensa: Fix home page URL in Kconfig ...

DocBook: update EXPORT_SYMBOL entry to point at export.h

2013-02-18T09:39:48Z

Previously we used to get EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends from module.h but we moved away from that since module.h largely includes the entire header space one way or another. As most users just wanted the simple export related macros, they were spun off into a separate new header -- export.h Update the docs to reflect that. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Documentation: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2013-01-11T19:38:03Z

The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. CC: Rob Landley CC: Jiri Kosina CC: Masanari Iida CC: Jason Wessel CC: Richard L Maliszewski CC: Gang Wei CC: Shane Wang CC: Harry Wei Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Jason Wessel

Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation

2012-04-16T12:37:13Z

Correct multiple spelling typo in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Rob Landley Reported-by: Anders Larsen Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

sched: Generalize sleep inside spinlock detection

2011-06-22T22:44:38Z

The sleeping inside spinlock detection is actually used for more general sleeping inside atomic sections debugging: preemption disabled, rcu read side critical sections, interrupts, interrupt disabled, etc... Change the name of the config and its help section to reflect its more general role. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar

docbook: fix signal_pending() argument

2009-12-10T02:59:52Z

Since signal_pending() takes a task_struct pointer as an argument, update the example to pass in 'current'. Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds