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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2026-05-29 17:54:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2026-05-29 17:54:34 +0100 |
| commit | 686a7ac3f6b13a5800282ddd81d80d71f29f75d6 (patch) | |
| tree | a3b650893c5b948bb8a0f93c24d47e2712a9ef8b /Documentation | |
| parent | 18a549b897f99757e5ec7ed570222de21c36285f (diff) | |
| parent | c60ffec33ddf24577f6f4da18fe825b2058c5f78 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-history-686a7ac3f6b13a5800282ddd81d80d71f29f75d6.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'mm-nonmm-stable' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst | 6 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst index f88a7809385e2..49fcfc66314ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ xor_val xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the pq generate the p+q (raid6 syndrome) from a series of source buffers pq_val validate that a p and or q buffer are in sync with a given series of sources -datap (raid6_datap_recov) recover a raid6 data block and the p block +datap (raid6_recov_datap) recover a raid6 data block and the p block from the given sources -2data (raid6_2data_recov) recover 2 raid6 data blocks from the given +2data (raid6_recov_2data) recover 2 raid6 data blocks from the given sources ======== ==================================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst index dccede68698ca..6139a08c34cd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst @@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ Available options: Override checking of perl version. Runtime errors may be encountered after enabling this flag if the perl version does not meet the minimum specified. + - --spdx-cxx-comments + + Don't force C comments ``/* */`` for SPDX license (required by old + toolchains), allow also C++ comments ``//``. + + NOTE: it should *not* be used for Linux mainline. + - --codespell Use the codespell dictionary for checking spelling errors. @@ -210,6 +217,13 @@ Available options: Display the help text. +Configuration file +================== + +Default configuration options can be stored in ``.checkpatch.conf``, search +path: ``.:$HOME:.scripts`` or in a directory specified by ``$CHECKPATCH_CONFIG_DIR`` +environment variable (falling back to the default search path). + Message Levels ============== diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst index 8127849d40f59..1a739290c8ecc 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst @@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ Both ``kcov_remote_start`` and ``kcov_remote_stop`` annotations and the collection sections. The way a handle is used depends on the context where the matching code section executes. +A thread can use two separate KCOV instances to collect remote coverage and +normal coverage at the same time. + KCOV supports collecting remote coverage from the following contexts: 1. Global kernel background tasks. These are the tasks that are spawned during @@ -262,6 +265,9 @@ gets saved to the ``kcov_handle`` field in the current ``task_struct`` and needs to be passed to the newly spawned local tasks via custom kernel code modifications. Those tasks should in turn use the passed handle in their ``kcov_remote_start`` and ``kcov_remote_stop`` annotations. +In the kernel, common handles are wrapped in a ``kcov_common_handle_id``, which +consumes no space in builds without ``CONFIG_KCOV``; subsystems that integrate +with this mechanism should not need to use any ``#ifdef CONFIG_KCOV`` or such. KCOV follows a predefined format for both global and common handles. Each handle is a ``u64`` integer. Currently, only the one top and the lower 4 bytes |