History log of /linux-master/Documentation/livepatch/shadow-vars.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# e368cd72 21-Dec-2021 David Vernet <void@manifault.com>

Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page

The livepatch subsystem has several exported functions and objects with
kerneldoc comments. Though the livepatch documentation contains handwritten
descriptions of all of these exported functions, they are currently not
pulled into the docs build using the kernel-doc directive.

In order to allow readers of the documentation to see the full kerneldoc
comments in the generated documentation files, this change adds a new
Documentation/livepatch/api.rst page which contains kernel-doc directives
to link the kerneldoc comments directly in the documentation. With this,
all of the hand-written descriptions of the APIs now cross-reference the
kerneldoc comments on the new Livepatching APIs page, and running
./scripts/find-unused-docs.sh on kernel/livepatch no longer shows any files
as missing documentation.

Note that all of the handwritten API descriptions were left alone with the
exception of Documentation/livepatch/system-state.rst, which was updated to
allow the cross-referencing to work correctly. The file now follows the
cross-referencing formatting guidance specified in
Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst. Furthermore, some comments around
klp_shadow_free_all() were updated to say <_, id> rather than <*, id> to
match the rest of the file, and to prevent the docs build from emitting an
"Inline emphasis start-string without end string" error.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221145743.4098360-1-void@manifault.com


# a5907065 05-Mar-2021 Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>

docs: livepatch: Fix a typo and remove the unnecessary gaps in a sentence

s/varibles/variables/

...and remove leading spaces from a sentence.

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210305100923.3731-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
[jc: performed suggested prepositional tweak]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 89e33ea7 03-May-2019 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

Convert livepatch documentation to ReST format. The changes
are mostly trivial, as the documents are already on a good
shape. Just a few markup changes are needed for Sphinx to
properly parse the docs.

The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- The in-file TOC becomes a comment, in order to skip it from the
output, as Sphinx already generates an index there.
- adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>