Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media

Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
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+================
+Memory alignment
+================
+
+Too many problems popped up because of unnoticed misaligned memory access in
+kernel code lately.  Therefore the alignment fixup is now unconditionally
+configured in for SA11x0 based targets.  According to Alan Cox, this is a
+bad idea to configure it out, but Russell King has some good reasons for
+doing so on some f***ed up ARM architectures like the EBSA110.  However
+this is not the case on many design I'm aware of, like all SA11x0 based
+ones.
+
+Of course this is a bad idea to rely on the alignment trap to perform
+unaligned memory access in general.  If those access are predictable, you
+are better to use the macros provided by include/asm/unaligned.h.  The
+alignment trap can fixup misaligned access for the exception cases, but at
+a high performance cost.  It better be rare.
+
+Now for user space applications, it is possible to configure the alignment
+trap to SIGBUS any code performing unaligned access (good for debugging bad
+code), or even fixup the access by software like for kernel code.  The later
+mode isn't recommended for performance reasons (just think about the
+floating point emulation that works about the same way).  Fix your code
+instead!
+
+Please note that randomly changing the behaviour without good thought is
+real bad - it changes the behaviour of all unaligned instructions in user
+space, and might cause programs to fail unexpectedly.
+
+To change the alignment trap behavior, simply echo a number into
+/proc/cpu/alignment.  The number is made up from various bits:
+
+===		========================================================
+bit		behavior when set
+===		========================================================
+0		A user process performing an unaligned memory access
+		will cause the kernel to print a message indicating
+		process name, pid, pc, instruction, address, and the
+		fault code.
+
+1		The kernel will attempt to fix up the user process
+		performing the unaligned access.  This is of course
+		slow (think about the floating point emulator) and
+		not recommended for production use.
+
+2		The kernel will send a SIGBUS signal to the user process
+		performing the unaligned access.
+===		========================================================
+
+Note that not all combinations are supported - only values 0 through 5.
+(6 and 7 don't make sense).
+
+For example, the following will turn on the warnings, but without
+fixing up or sending SIGBUS signals::
+
+	echo 1 > /proc/cpu/alignment
+
+You can also read the content of the same file to get statistical
+information on unaligned access occurrences plus the current mode of
+operation for user space code.
+
+
+Nicolas Pitre, Mar 13, 2001.  Modified Russell King, Nov 30, 2001.