Merge branch 'doc/4.9' into docs-next

Documentation/CodingStyle

@@ -396,9 +396,13 @@ locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done.  If there is no
 cleanup needed then just return directly.
 
 Choose label names which say what the goto does or why the goto exists.  An
-example of a good name could be "out_buffer:" if the goto frees "buffer".  Avoid
+example of a good name could be "out_free_buffer:" if the goto frees "buffer".
-using GW-BASIC names like "err1:" and "err2:".  Also don't name them after the
+Avoid using GW-BASIC names like "err1:" and "err2:", as you would have to
-goto location like "err_kmalloc_failed:"
+renumber them if you ever add or remove exit paths, and they make correctness
+difficult to verify anyway.
+
+It is advised to indent labels with a single space (not tab), so that
+"diff -p" does not confuse labels with functions.
 
 The rationale for using gotos is:
 
@@ -425,7 +429,7 @@ The rationale for using gotos is:
 			goto out_buffer;
 		}
 		...
-	out_buffer:
+	 out_free_buffer:
 		kfree(buffer);
 		return result;
 	}
@@ -438,7 +442,16 @@ A common type of bug to be aware of is "one err bugs" which look like this:
 		return ret;
 
 The bug in this code is that on some exit paths "foo" is NULL.  Normally the
-fix for this is to split it up into two error labels "err_bar:" and "err_foo:".
+fix for this is to split it up into two error labels "err_free_bar:" and
+"err_free_foo:":
+
+	 err_free_bar:
+		kfree(foo->bar);
+	 err_free_foo:
+		kfree(foo);
+		return ret;
+
+Ideally you should simulate errors to test all exit paths.
 
 
 		Chapter 8: Commenting
@@ -461,9 +474,6 @@ When commenting the kernel API functions, please use the kernel-doc format.
 See the files Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst and scripts/kernel-doc
 for details.
 
-Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
-Don't use C99-style "// ..." comments.
-
 The preferred style for long (multi-line) comments is:
 
 	/*

Documentation/DocBook/Makefile

@@ -22,8 +22,14 @@ ifeq ($(DOCBOOKS),)
 # Skip DocBook build if the user explicitly requested no DOCBOOKS.
 .DEFAULT:
 	@echo "  SKIP    DocBook $@ target (DOCBOOKS=\"\" specified)."
-
 else
+ifneq ($(SPHINXDIRS),)
+
+# Skip DocBook build if the user explicitly requested a sphinx dir
+.DEFAULT:
+	@echo "  SKIP    DocBook $@ target (SPHINXDIRS specified)."
+else
+
 
 ###
 # The build process is as follows (targets):
@@ -221,6 +227,7 @@ silent_gen_xml = :
 	   echo "</programlisting>")  > $@
 
 endif # DOCBOOKS=""
+endif # SPHINDIR=...
 
 ###
 # Help targets as used by the top-level makefile

Documentation/Makefile.sphinx

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 # You can set these variables from the command line.
 SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
 SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXDIRS    = .
+_SPHINXDIRS   = $(patsubst $(srctree)/Documentation/%/conf.py,%,$(wildcard $(srctree)/Documentation/*/conf.py))
+SPHINX_CONF   = conf.py
 PAPER         =
 BUILDDIR      = $(obj)/output
 
@@ -33,30 +36,50 @@ PAPEROPT_a4     = -D latex_paper_size=a4
 PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
 KERNELDOC       = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc
 KERNELDOC_CONF  = -D kerneldoc_srctree=$(srctree) -D kerneldoc_bin=$(KERNELDOC)
-ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -D version=$(KERNELVERSION) -D release=$(KERNELRELEASE) -d $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees $(KERNELDOC_CONF) $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) -c $(srctree)/$(src) $(SPHINXOPTS) $(srctree)/$(src)
+ALLSPHINXOPTS   =  $(KERNELDOC_CONF) $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS)
 # the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
 I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
 
-quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX  $@
+# commands; the 'cmd' from scripts/Kbuild.include is not *loopable*
-      cmd_sphinx = $(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(BUILDDIR) $(build)=Documentation/media all; BUILDDIR=$(BUILDDIR) $(SPHINXBUILD) -b $2 $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/$2
+loop_cmd = $(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1))
+
+# $2 sphinx builder e.g. "html"
+# $3 name of the build subfolder / e.g. "media", used as:
+#    * dest folder relative to $(BUILDDIR) and
+#    * cache folder relative to $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees
+# $4 dest subfolder e.g. "man" for man pages at media/man
+# $5 reST source folder relative to $(srctree)/$(src),
+#    e.g. "media" for the linux-tv book-set at ./Documentation/media
+
+quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX  $@ --> file://$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)/$3/$4);
+      cmd_sphinx = $(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) $(build)=Documentation/media all;\
+	BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) SPHINX_CONF=$(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)/$5/$(SPHINX_CONF)) \
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) \
+	-b $2 \
+	-c $(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)) \
+	-d $(abspath $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees/$3) \
+	-D version=$(KERNELVERSION) -D release=$(KERNELRELEASE) \
+	$(ALLSPHINXOPTS) \
+	$(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)/$5) \
+	$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)/$3/$4);
 
 htmldocs:
-	$(call cmd,sphinx,html)
+	@$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,html,$(var),,$(var)))
 
 pdfdocs:
 ifeq ($(HAVE_PDFLATEX),0)
 	$(warning The 'pdflatex' command was not found. Make sure you have it installed and in PATH to produce PDF output.)
 	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
 else # HAVE_PDFLATEX
-	$(call cmd,sphinx,latex)
+	@$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,latex,.,latex,.))
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(BUILDDIR)/latex
 endif # HAVE_PDFLATEX
 
 epubdocs:
-	$(call cmd,sphinx,epub)
+	@$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,epub,$(var),epub,$(var)))
 
 xmldocs:
-	$(call cmd,sphinx,xml)
+	@$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,xml,$(var),xml,$(var)))
 
 # no-ops for the Sphinx toolchain
 sgmldocs:
@@ -76,3 +99,9 @@ dochelp:
 	@echo  '  epubdocs        - EPUB'
 	@echo  '  xmldocs         - XML'
 	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated files'
+	@echo
+	@echo  '  make SPHINXDIRS="s1 s2" [target] Generate only docs of folder s1, s2'
+	@echo  '  valid values for SPHINXDIRS are: $(_SPHINXDIRS)'
+	@echo
+	@echo  '  make SPHINX_CONF={conf-file} [target] use *additional* sphinx-build'
+	@echo  '  configuration. This is e.g. useful to build with nit-picking config.'

Documentation/clk.txt

@@ -31,24 +31,25 @@ serve as a convenient shorthand for the implementation of the
 hardware-specific bits for the hypothetical "foo" hardware.
 
 Tying the two halves of this interface together is struct clk_hw, which
-is defined in struct clk_foo and pointed to within struct clk.  This
+is defined in struct clk_foo and pointed to within struct clk_core.  This
 allows for easy navigation between the two discrete halves of the common
 clock interface.
 
 	Part 2 - common data structures and api
 
-Below is the common struct clk definition from
+Below is the common struct clk_core definition from
-include/linux/clk-private.h, modified for brevity:
+drivers/clk/clk.c, modified for brevity:
 
-	struct clk {
+	struct clk_core {
 		const char		*name;
 		const struct clk_ops	*ops;
 		struct clk_hw		*hw;
-		char			**parent_names;
+		struct module		*owner;
-		struct clk		**parents;
+		struct clk_core		*parent;
-		struct clk		*parent;
+		const char		**parent_names;
-		struct hlist_head	children;
+		struct clk_core		**parents;
-		struct hlist_node	child_node;
+		u8			num_parents;
+		u8			new_parent_index;
 		...
 	};
 
@@ -56,16 +57,19 @@ The members above make up the core of the clk tree topology.  The clk
 api itself defines several driver-facing functions which operate on
 struct clk.  That api is documented in include/linux/clk.h.
 
-Platforms and devices utilizing the common struct clk use the struct
+Platforms and devices utilizing the common struct clk_core use the struct
-clk_ops pointer in struct clk to perform the hardware-specific parts of
+clk_ops pointer in struct clk_core to perform the hardware-specific parts of
-the operations defined in clk.h:
+the operations defined in clk-provider.h:
 
 	struct clk_ops {
 		int		(*prepare)(struct clk_hw *hw);
 		void		(*unprepare)(struct clk_hw *hw);
+		int		(*is_prepared)(struct clk_hw *hw);
+		void		(*unprepare_unused)(struct clk_hw *hw);
 		int		(*enable)(struct clk_hw *hw);
 		void		(*disable)(struct clk_hw *hw);
 		int		(*is_enabled)(struct clk_hw *hw);
+		void		(*disable_unused)(struct clk_hw *hw);
 		unsigned long	(*recalc_rate)(struct clk_hw *hw,
 						unsigned long parent_rate);
 		long		(*round_rate)(struct clk_hw *hw,
@@ -84,6 +88,8 @@ the operations defined in clk.h:
 					    u8 index);
 		unsigned long	(*recalc_accuracy)(struct clk_hw *hw,
 						unsigned long parent_accuracy);
+		int		(*get_phase)(struct clk_hw *hw);
+		int		(*set_phase)(struct clk_hw *hw, int degrees);
 		void		(*init)(struct clk_hw *hw);
 		int		(*debug_init)(struct clk_hw *hw,
 					      struct dentry *dentry);
@@ -91,7 +97,7 @@ the operations defined in clk.h:
 
 	Part 3 - hardware clk implementations
 
-The strength of the common struct clk comes from its .ops and .hw pointers
+The strength of the common struct clk_core comes from its .ops and .hw pointers
 which abstract the details of struct clk from the hardware-specific bits, and
 vice versa.  To illustrate consider the simple gateable clk implementation in
 drivers/clk/clk-gate.c:
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@ struct clk_gate contains struct clk_hw hw as well as hardware-specific
 knowledge about which register and bit controls this clk's gating.
 Nothing about clock topology or accounting, such as enable_count or
 notifier_count, is needed here.  That is all handled by the common
-framework code and struct clk.
+framework code and struct clk_core.
 
 Let's walk through enabling this clk from driver code:
 
@@ -139,22 +145,18 @@ static void clk_gate_set_bit(struct clk_gate *gate)
 
 Note that to_clk_gate is defined as:
 
-#define to_clk_gate(_hw) container_of(_hw, struct clk_gate, clk)
+#define to_clk_gate(_hw) container_of(_hw, struct clk_gate, hw)
 
 This pattern of abstraction is used for every clock hardware
 representation.
 
 	Part 4 - supporting your own clk hardware
 
-When implementing support for a new type of clock it only necessary to
+When implementing support for a new type of clock it is only necessary to
 include the following header:
 
 #include <linux/clk-provider.h>
 
-include/linux/clk.h is included within that header and clk-private.h
-must never be included from the code which implements the operations for
-a clock.  More on that below in Part 5.
-
 To construct a clk hardware structure for your platform you must define
 the following:
 

Documentation/conf.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import os
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('sphinx'))
+from load_config import loadConfig
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -421,3 +422,9 @@ pdf_documents = [
 # line arguments.
 kerneldoc_bin = '../scripts/kernel-doc'
 kerneldoc_srctree = '..'
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Since loadConfig overwrites settings from the global namespace, it has to be
+# the last statement in the conf.py file
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+loadConfig(globals())

Documentation/docutils.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 mode: conf-colon -*-
+#
+# docutils configuration file
+# http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/config.html
+
+[general]
+halt_level: severe

Documentation/gpu/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+project = "Linux GPU Driver Developer's Guide"

Documentation/index.rst

@@ -6,18 +6,13 @@
 Welcome to The Linux Kernel's documentation!
 ============================================
 
-Nothing for you to see here *yet*. Please move along.
-
 Contents:
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
    kernel-documentation
-   media/media_uapi
+   media/index
-   media/media_kapi
-   media/dvb-drivers/index
-   media/v4l-drivers/index
    gpu/index
 
 Indices and tables

Documentation/media/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+project = 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation'

Documentation/media/conf_nitpick.py

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+project = 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation'
+
+# It is possible to run Sphinx in nickpick mode with:
+nitpicky = True
+
+# within nit-picking build, do not refer to any intersphinx object
+intersphinx_mapping = {}
+
+# In nickpick mode, it will complain about lots of missing references that
+#
+# 1) are just typedefs like: bool, __u32, etc;
+# 2) It will complain for things like: enum, NULL;
+# 3) It will complain for symbols that should be on different
+#    books (but currently aren't ported to ReST)
+#
+# The list below has a list of such symbols to be ignored in nitpick mode
+#
+nitpick_ignore = [
+    ("c:func", "clock_gettime"),
+    ("c:func", "close"),
+    ("c:func", "container_of"),
+    ("c:func", "determine_valid_ioctls"),
+    ("c:func", "ERR_PTR"),
+    ("c:func", "ioctl"),
+    ("c:func", "IS_ERR"),
+    ("c:func", "mmap"),
+    ("c:func", "open"),
+    ("c:func", "pci_name"),
+    ("c:func", "poll"),
+    ("c:func", "PTR_ERR"),
+    ("c:func", "read"),
+    ("c:func", "release"),
+    ("c:func", "set"),
+    ("c:func", "struct fd_set"),
+    ("c:func", "struct pollfd"),
+    ("c:func", "usb_make_path"),
+    ("c:func", "write"),
+    ("c:type", "atomic_t"),
+    ("c:type", "bool"),
+    ("c:type", "buf_queue"),
+    ("c:type", "device"),
+    ("c:type", "device_driver"),
+    ("c:type", "device_node"),
+    ("c:type", "enum"),
+    ("c:type", "file"),
+    ("c:type", "i2c_adapter"),
+    ("c:type", "i2c_board_info"),
+    ("c:type", "i2c_client"),
+    ("c:type", "ktime_t"),
+    ("c:type", "led_classdev_flash"),
+    ("c:type", "list_head"),
+    ("c:type", "lock_class_key"),
+    ("c:type", "module"),
+    ("c:type", "mutex"),
+    ("c:type", "pci_dev"),
+    ("c:type", "pdvbdev"),
+    ("c:type", "poll_table_struct"),
+    ("c:type", "s32"),
+    ("c:type", "s64"),
+    ("c:type", "sd"),
+    ("c:type", "spi_board_info"),
+    ("c:type", "spi_device"),
+    ("c:type", "spi_master"),
+    ("c:type", "struct fb_fix_screeninfo"),
+    ("c:type", "struct pollfd"),
+    ("c:type", "struct timeval"),
+    ("c:type", "struct video_capability"),
+    ("c:type", "u16"),
+    ("c:type", "u32"),
+    ("c:type", "u64"),
+    ("c:type", "u8"),
+    ("c:type", "union"),
+    ("c:type", "usb_device"),
+
+    ("cpp:type", "boolean"),
+    ("cpp:type", "fd"),
+    ("cpp:type", "fd_set"),
+    ("cpp:type", "int16_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "NULL"),
+    ("cpp:type", "off_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "pollfd"),
+    ("cpp:type", "size_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "ssize_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "timeval"),
+    ("cpp:type", "__u16"),
+    ("cpp:type", "__u32"),
+    ("cpp:type", "__u64"),
+    ("cpp:type", "uint16_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "uint32_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "video_system_t"),
+]

Documentation/media/index.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Linux Media Subsystem Documentation
+===================================
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   media_uapi
+   media_kapi
+   dvb-drivers/index
+   v4l-drivers/index

Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+# pylint: disable=R0903, C0330, R0914, R0912, E0401
+
+import os
+import sys
+from sphinx.util.pycompat import execfile_
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def loadConfig(namespace):
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    u"""Load an additional configuration file into *namespace*.
+
+    The name of the configuration file is taken from the environment
+    ``SPHINX_CONF``. The external configuration file extends (or overwrites) the
+    configuration values from the origin ``conf.py``.  With this you are able to
+    maintain *build themes*.  """
+
+    config_file = os.environ.get("SPHINX_CONF", None)
+    if (config_file is not None
+        and os.path.normpath(namespace["__file__"]) != os.path.normpath(config_file) ):
+        config_file = os.path.abspath(config_file)
+
+        if os.path.isfile(config_file):
+            sys.stdout.write("load additional sphinx-config: %s\n" % config_file)
+            config = namespace.copy()
+            config['__file__'] = config_file
+            execfile_(config_file, config)
+            del config['__file__']
+            namespace.update(config)
+        else:
+            sys.stderr.write("WARNING: additional sphinx-config not found: %s\n" % config_file)

README

@@ -229,10 +229,6 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
       under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a
       nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers
 
-    - Compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386
-      will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386.  The
-      kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.
-
     - A kernel with math-emulation compiled in will still use the
       coprocessor if one is present: the math emulation will just
       never get used in that case.  The kernel will be slightly larger,
@@ -289,7 +285,7 @@ COMPILING the kernel:
    LOCALVERSION can be set in the "General Setup" menu.
 
  - In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel
-   image (e.g. .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage after compilation)
+   image (e.g. .../linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage after compilation)
    to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found.
 
  - Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a
@@ -391,7 +387,7 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
 
  - Alternatively, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you
    cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the
-   kernel with -g; edit arch/i386/Makefile appropriately, then do a "make
+   kernel with -g; edit arch/x86/Makefile appropriately, then do a "make
    clean". You'll also need to enable CONFIG_PROC_FS (via "make config").
 
    After you've rebooted with the new kernel, do "gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore".