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| 8 | 8 | Core utilities |
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| 9 | 9 | ============== |
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| 10 | 10 | |
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| 11 | +This section has general and "core core" documentation. The first is a |
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| 12 | +massive grab-bag of kerneldoc info left over from the docbook days; it |
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| 13 | +should really be broken up someday when somebody finds the energy to do |
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| 14 | +it. |
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| 15 | + |
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| 11 | 16 | .. toctree:: |
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| 12 | 17 | :maxdepth: 1 |
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| 13 | 18 | |
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| 14 | 19 | kernel-api |
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| 15 | | - assoc_array |
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| 16 | | - atomic_ops |
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| 17 | | - cachetlb |
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| 18 | | - refcount-vs-atomic |
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| 19 | | - cpu_hotplug |
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| 20 | | - idr |
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| 21 | | - local_ops |
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| 22 | 20 | workqueue |
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| 23 | | - genericirq |
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| 24 | | - flexible-arrays |
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| 25 | | - librs |
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| 26 | | - genalloc |
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| 27 | | - errseq |
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| 21 | + printk-basics |
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| 28 | 22 | printk-formats |
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| 23 | + symbol-namespaces |
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| 24 | + |
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| 25 | +Data structures and low-level utilities |
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| 26 | +======================================= |
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| 27 | + |
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| 28 | +Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel. |
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| 29 | + |
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| 30 | +.. toctree:: |
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| 31 | + :maxdepth: 1 |
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| 32 | + |
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| 33 | + kobject |
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| 34 | + kref |
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| 35 | + assoc_array |
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| 36 | + xarray |
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| 37 | + idr |
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| 29 | 38 | circular-buffers |
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| 30 | | - mm-api |
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| 31 | | - gfp_mask-from-fs-io |
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| 39 | + rbtree |
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| 40 | + generic-radix-tree |
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| 41 | + packing |
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| 42 | + bus-virt-phys-mapping |
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| 43 | + this_cpu_ops |
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| 32 | 44 | timekeeping |
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| 45 | + errseq |
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| 46 | + |
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| 47 | +Concurrency primitives |
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| 48 | +====================== |
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| 49 | + |
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| 50 | +How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time. See |
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| 51 | +:doc:`/locking/index` for more related documentation. |
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| 52 | + |
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| 53 | +.. toctree:: |
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| 54 | + :maxdepth: 1 |
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| 55 | + |
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| 56 | + atomic_ops |
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| 57 | + refcount-vs-atomic |
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| 58 | + irq/index |
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| 59 | + local_ops |
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| 60 | + padata |
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| 61 | + ../RCU/index |
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| 62 | + |
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| 63 | +Low-level hardware management |
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| 64 | +============================= |
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| 65 | + |
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| 66 | +Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc. |
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| 67 | + |
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| 68 | +.. toctree:: |
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| 69 | + :maxdepth: 1 |
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| 70 | + |
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| 71 | + cachetlb |
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| 72 | + cpu_hotplug |
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| 73 | + memory-hotplug |
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| 74 | + genericirq |
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| 75 | + protection-keys |
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| 76 | + |
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| 77 | +Memory management |
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| 78 | +================= |
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| 79 | + |
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| 80 | +How to allocate and use memory in the kernel. Note that there is a lot |
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| 81 | +more memory-management documentation in :doc:`/vm/index`. |
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| 82 | + |
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| 83 | +.. toctree:: |
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| 84 | + :maxdepth: 1 |
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| 85 | + |
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| 86 | + memory-allocation |
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| 87 | + unaligned-memory-access |
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| 88 | + dma-api |
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| 89 | + dma-api-howto |
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| 90 | + dma-attributes |
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| 91 | + dma-isa-lpc |
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| 92 | + mm-api |
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| 93 | + genalloc |
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| 94 | + pin_user_pages |
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| 33 | 95 | boot-time-mm |
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| 96 | + gfp_mask-from-fs-io |
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| 34 | 97 | |
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| 35 | 98 | Interfaces for kernel debugging |
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| 36 | 99 | =============================== |
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| .. | .. |
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| 40 | 103 | |
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| 41 | 104 | debug-objects |
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| 42 | 105 | tracepoint |
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| 106 | + debugging-via-ohci1394 |
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| 43 | 107 | |
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| 44 | | -.. only:: subproject |
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| 108 | +Everything else |
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| 109 | +=============== |
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| 110 | + |
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| 111 | +Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized. |
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| 112 | + |
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| 113 | +.. toctree:: |
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| 114 | + :maxdepth: 1 |
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| 115 | + |
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| 116 | + librs |
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| 117 | + |
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| 118 | +.. only:: subproject and html |
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| 45 | 119 | |
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| 46 | 120 | Indices |
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| 47 | 121 | ======= |
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