linux/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
Jonathan Corbet e40573a43d docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book
These files describe part of the core API, but have never been converted to
RST due to ... let's say local oppposition.  So, create a set of
special-purpose wrappers to ..include these files into a separate page so
that they can be a part of the htmldocs build.  Then link them into the
core-api manual and remove them from the "staging" dumping ground.

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-7-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-29 12:55:06 -06:00

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Core API Documentation
======================
This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs. The conversion
(and writing!) of documents for this manual is much appreciated!
Core utilities
==============
This section has general and "core core" documentation. The first is a
massive grab-bag of kerneldoc info left over from the docbook days; it
should really be broken up someday when somebody finds the energy to do
it.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
kernel-api
workqueue
watch_queue
printk-basics
printk-formats
printk-index
symbol-namespaces
asm-annotations
Data structures and low-level utilities
=======================================
Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
kobject
kref
assoc_array
xarray
idr
circular-buffers
rbtree
generic-radix-tree
packing
this_cpu_ops
timekeeping
errseq
wrappers/atomic_t
wrappers/atomic_bitops
Low level entry and exit
========================
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
entry
Concurrency primitives
======================
How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time. See
Documentation/locking/index.rst for more related documentation.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
refcount-vs-atomic
irq/index
local_ops
padata
../RCU/index
wrappers/memory-barriers.rst
Low-level hardware management
=============================
Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
cachetlb
cpu_hotplug
memory-hotplug
genericirq
protection-keys
Memory management
=================
How to allocate and use memory in the kernel. Note that there is a lot
more memory-management documentation in Documentation/mm/index.rst.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
memory-allocation
unaligned-memory-access
dma-api
dma-api-howto
dma-attributes
dma-isa-lpc
mm-api
genalloc
pin_user_pages
boot-time-mm
gfp_mask-from-fs-io
Interfaces for kernel debugging
===============================
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
debug-objects
tracepoint
debugging-via-ohci1394
Everything else
===============
Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
librs
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
=======
* :ref:`genindex`