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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-29 11:21:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-29 11:21:49 -0800
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Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes. As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments" * tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits) docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc doc:process: add links where missing docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting doc:it: add some process/* translations doc:it: fixes in process/1.Intro Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst12
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
index aa14f05cabb1..00a3409b0c28 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
.. highlight:: none
+.. _devtools_coccinelle:
+
Coccinelle
==========
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
index e313925fb0fa..b0522a4dd107 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Development tools for the kernel
================================
This document is a collection of documents about development tools that can
-be used to work on the kernel. For now, the documents have been pulled
-together without any significant effot to integrate them into a coherent
+be used to work on the kernel. For now, the documents have been pulled
+together without any significant effort to integrate them into a coherent
whole; patches welcome!
.. class:: toc-title
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
index dad1bb8711e2..7756f7a7c23b 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ and booting a kernel.
On some systems, hot-plug tests could hang forever waiting for cpu and
memory to be ready to be offlined. A special hot-plug target is created
-to run full range of hot-plug tests. In default mode, hot-plug tests run
+to run the full range of hot-plug tests. In default mode, hot-plug tests run
in safe mode with a limited scope. In limited mode, cpu-hotplug test is
run on a single cpu as opposed to all hotplug capable cpus, and memory
hotplug test is run on 2% of hotplug capable memory instead of 10%.
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ Note that some tests will require root privileges.
Install selftests
=================
-You can use kselftest_install.sh tool installs selftests in default
-location which is tools/testing/selftests/kselftest or a user specified
-location.
+You can use the kselftest_install.sh tool to install selftests in the
+default location, which is tools/testing/selftests/kselftest, or in a
+user specified location.
To install selftests in default location::
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Running installed selftests
Kselftest install as well as the Kselftest tarball provide a script
named "run_kselftest.sh" to run the tests.
-You can simply do the following to run the installed Kselftests. Please
+You can simply do the following to run the installed Kselftests. Please
note some tests will require root privileges::
$ cd kselftest
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Contributing new tests (details)
default.
TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS should be used by tests that require custom build
- rule and prevent common build rule use.
+ rules and prevent common build rule use.
TEST_PROGS are for test shell scripts. Please ensure shell script has
its exec bit set. Otherwise, lib.mk run_tests will generate a warning.