| ====================== |
| 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 |
| maple_tree |
| 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 |
| netlink |
| |
| .. only:: subproject and html |
| |
| Indices |
| ======= |
| |
| * :ref:`genindex` |
