Commit 6d864a85 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet
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Merge branch 'docs-fixes' into docs-mw 

Bring all of the 6.1 documentation fixes in.
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Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst

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.. warning::



    Beware that this will return a false positive if a

    :ref:`botton half lock <local_bh_disable>` is held.

    :ref:`bottom half lock <local_bh_disable>` is held.



Some Basic Rules

================

Documentation/process/2.Process.rst

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5.2.21 was the final stable update of the 5.2 release.



Some kernels are designated "long term" kernels; they will receive support

for a longer period.  As of this writing, the current long term kernels

and their maintainers are:



	======  ================================	=======================

	3.16	Ben Hutchings				(very long-term kernel)

	4.4	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin	(very long-term kernel)

	4.9	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin

	4.14	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin

	4.19	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin

	5.4	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin

	======  ================================	=======================

for a longer period.  Please refer to the following link for the list of active

long term kernel versions and their maintainers:



	https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html



The selection of a kernel for long-term support is purely a matter of a

maintainer having the need and the time to maintain that release.  There

Documentation/process/howto.rst

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 - "C:  A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele [Prentice Hall]



The kernel is written using GNU C and the GNU toolchain.  While it

adheres to the ISO C89 standard, it uses a number of extensions that are

adheres to the ISO C11 standard, it uses a number of extensions that are

not featured in the standard.  The kernel is a freestanding C

environment, with no reliance on the standard C library, so some

portions of the C standard are not supported.  Arbitrary long long

Documentation/trace/histogram.rst

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  will use the event's kernel stacktrace as the key.  The keywords

  'keys' or 'key' can be used to specify keys, and the keywords

  'values', 'vals', or 'val' can be used to specify values.  Compound

  keys consisting of up to two fields can be specified by the 'keys'

  keys consisting of up to three fields can be specified by the 'keys'

  keyword.  Hashing a compound key produces a unique entry in the

  table for each unique combination of component keys, and can be

  useful for providing more fine-grained summaries of event data.

Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/howto.rst

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- "C:  A Reference Manual" di Harbison and Steele [Prentice Hall]



Il kernel è stato scritto usando GNU C e la toolchain GNU.

Sebbene si attenga allo standard ISO C89, esso utilizza una serie di

Sebbene si attenga allo standard ISO C11, esso utilizza una serie di

estensioni che non sono previste in questo standard. Il kernel è un

ambiente C indipendente, che non ha alcuna dipendenza dalle librerie

C standard, così alcune parti del C standard non sono supportate.