linux/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
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Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
  still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation

   - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
     patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
     by generative tools

   - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
     tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
     behind to avoid breaking scripts

   - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
     documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
     variables, and lots of improvements and fixes

   - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
     to the online pages in the HTML build

  ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"

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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
real-time/index
housekeeping.rst
Data structures and low-level utilities
=======================================
Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
kobject
kref
cleanup
assoc_array
folio_queue
xarray
maple_tree
idr
circular-buffers
rbtree
generic-radix-tree
packing
this_cpu_ops
timekeeping
errseq
wrappers/atomic_t
wrappers/atomic_bitops
floating-point
union_find
min_heap
parser
list
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
swiotlb
mm-api
cgroup
genalloc
pin_user_pages
boot-time-mm
gfp_mask-from-fs-io
kho/index
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
liveupdate
netlink