Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Some big changes this month, headlined by the addition of a new
  formatted documentation mechanism based on the Sphinx system.

  The objectives here are to make it easier to create better-integrated
  (and more attractive) documents while (eventually) dumping our
  one-of-a-kind, cobbled-together system for something that is widely
  used and maintained by others.  There's a fair amount of information
  what's being done, why, and how to use it in:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/
    https://lwn.net/Articles/692705/

  Closer to home, Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst describes how
  it works.

  For now, the new system exists alongside the old one; you should soon
  see the GPU documentation converted over in the DRM pull and some
  significant media conversion work as well.  Once all the docs have
  been moved over and we're convinced that the rough edges (of which are
  are a few) have been smoothed over, the DocBook-based stuff should go
  away.

  Primary credit is to Jani Nikula for doing the heavy lifting to make
  this stuff actually work; there has also been notable effort from
  Markus Heiser, Daniel Vetter, and Mauro Carvalho Chehab.

  Expect a couple of conflicts on the new index.rst file over the course
  of the merge window; they are trivially resolvable.  That file may be
  a bit of a conflict magnet in the short term, but I don't expect that
  situation to last for any real length of time.

  Beyond that, of course, we have the usual collection of tweaks,
  updates, and typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (77 commits)
  doc-rst: kernel-doc: fix handling of address_space tags
  Revert "doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings"
  doc-rst: kernel-doc directive, fix state machine reporter
  docs: deprecate kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
  doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings
  Documentation: add watermark_scale_factor to the list of vm systcl file
  kernel-doc: Fix up warning output
  docs: Get rid of some kernel-documentation warnings
  doc-rst: add an option to ignore DocBooks when generating docs
  workqueue: Fix a typo in workqueue.txt
  Doc: ocfs: Fix typo in filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
  Documentation/sphinx: skip build if user requested specific DOCBOOKS
  Documentation: add cleanmediadocs to the documentation targets
  Add .pyc files to .gitignore
  Doc: PM: Fix a typo in intel_powerclamp.txt
  doc-rst: flat-table directive - initial implementation
  Documentation: add meta-documentation for Sphinx and kernel-doc
  Documentation: tiny typo fix in usb/gadget_multi.txt
  Documentation: fix wrong value in md.txt
  bcache: documentation formatting, edited for clarity, stripe alignment notes
  ...

28 files changed, 2341 insertions, 278 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e74fec8693b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+output
+*.pyc
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index cd077ca0e1b8..cb9a6c6fa83b 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ kbuild/
 	- directory with info about the kernel build process.
 kdump/
 	- directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work.
-kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
-	- mini HowTo on generation and location of kernel documentation files.
 kernel-docs.txt
 	- listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals.
+kernel-documentation.rst
+	- how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation
 kernel-parameters.txt
 	- summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel.
 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 9a70ddd16584..a096836723ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ of the function, telling people what it does, and possibly WHY it does
 it.
 
 When commenting the kernel API functions, please use the kernel-doc format.
-See the files Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt and scripts/kernel-doc
+See the files Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst and scripts/kernel-doc
 for details.
 
 Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index d70f9b68174e..01bab5014a4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 # To add a new book the only step required is to add the book to the
 # list of DOCBOOKS.
 
+ifeq ($(IGNORE_DOCBOOKS),)
+
 DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml device-drivers.xml \
 	    kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
 	    writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \
@@ -33,10 +35,6 @@ PDF_METHOD	= $(prefer-db2x)
 PS_METHOD	= $(prefer-db2x)
 
 
-###
-# The targets that may be used.
-PHONY += xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs cleandocs
-
 targets += $(DOCBOOKS)
 BOOKS := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(DOCBOOKS))
 xmldocs: $(BOOKS)
@@ -63,6 +61,9 @@ installmandocs: mandocs
 		sort -k 2 -k 1 | uniq -f 1 | sed -e 's: :/:' | \
 		xargs install -m 644 -t /usr/local/man/man9/
 
+# no-op for the DocBook toolchain
+epubdocs:
+
 ###
 #External programs used
 KERNELDOCXMLREF = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc-xml-ref
@@ -216,10 +217,24 @@ silent_gen_xml = :
 	       -e "s/>/\\>/g";     \
 	   echo "</programlisting>")  > $@
 
+else
+
+# Needed, due to cleanmediadocs
+include Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile
+
+htmldocs:
+pdfdocs:
+psdocs:
+xmldocs:
+installmandocs:
+
+endif # IGNORE_DOCBOOKS
+
+
 ###
 # Help targets as used by the top-level makefile
 dochelp:
-	@echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:'
+	@echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats (DocBook):'
 	@echo  '  htmldocs        - HTML'
 	@echo  '  pdfdocs         - PDF'
 	@echo  '  psdocs          - Postscript'
@@ -228,8 +243,11 @@ dochelp:
 	@echo  '  installmandocs  - install man pages generated by mandocs'
 	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated DocBook files'
 	@echo
-	@echo  'make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'
+	@echo  '  make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'
 	@echo  '  valid values for DOCBOOKS are: $(DOCBOOKS)'
+	@echo
+	@echo  "  make IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1 [target] Don't generate docs from Docbook"
+	@echo  '     This is useful to generate only the ReST docs (Sphinx)'
 
 
 ###
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d8d13c92a178
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# -*- makefile -*-
+# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+PAPER         =
+BUILDDIR      = $(obj)/output
+
+# User-friendly check for sphinx-build
+HAVE_SPHINX := $(shell if which $(SPHINXBUILD) >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
+
+ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX),0)
+
+.DEFAULT:
+	$(warning The '$(SPHINXBUILD)' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx installed and in PATH, or set the SPHINXBUILD make variable to point to the full path of the '$(SPHINXBUILD)' executable.)
+	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
+
+else ifneq ($(DOCBOOKS),)
+
+# Skip Sphinx build if the user explicitly requested DOCBOOKS.
+.DEFAULT:
+	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target (DOCBOOKS specified)."
+
+else # HAVE_SPHINX
+
+# User-friendly check for rst2pdf
+HAVE_RST2PDF := $(shell if python -c "import rst2pdf" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
+
+# Internal variables.
+PAPEROPT_a4     = -D latex_paper_size=a4
+PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
+KERNELDOC       = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc
+KERNELDOC_CONF  = -D kerneldoc_srctree=$(srctree) -D kerneldoc_bin=$(KERNELDOC)
+ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -D version=$(KERNELVERSION) -D release=$(KERNELRELEASE) -d $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees $(KERNELDOC_CONF) $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) -c $(srctree)/$(src) $(SPHINXOPTS) $(srctree)/$(src)
+# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
+I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
+
+quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX  $@
+      cmd_sphinx = $(SPHINXBUILD) -b $2 $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/$2
+
+htmldocs:
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,html)
+
+pdfdocs:
+ifeq ($(HAVE_RST2PDF),0)
+	$(warning The Python 'rst2pdf' module was not found. Make sure you have the module installed to produce PDF output.)
+	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
+else # HAVE_RST2PDF
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,pdf)
+endif # HAVE_RST2PDF
+
+epubdocs:
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,epub)
+
+xmldocs:
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,xml)
+
+# no-ops for the Sphinx toolchain
+sgmldocs:
+psdocs:
+mandocs:
+installmandocs:
+cleanmediadocs:
+
+cleandocs:
+	$(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)
+
+dochelp:
+	@echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats (Sphinx):'
+	@echo  '  htmldocs        - HTML'
+	@echo  '  pdfdocs         - PDF'
+	@echo  '  epubdocs        - EPUB'
+	@echo  '  xmldocs         - XML'
+	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated files'
+
+endif # HAVE_SPHINX
diff --git a/Documentation/bcache.txt b/Documentation/bcache.txt
index 32b6c3189d98..a9259b562d5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/bcache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/bcache.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Say you've got a big slow raid 6, and an X-25E or three. Wouldn't it be
+Say you've got a big slow raid 6, and an ssd or three. Wouldn't it be
 nice if you could use them as cache... Hence bcache.
 
 Wiki and git repositories are at:
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Wiki and git repositories are at:
 
 It's designed around the performance characteristics of SSDs - it only allocates
 in erase block sized buckets, and it uses a hybrid btree/log to track cached
-extants (which can be anywhere from a single sector to the bucket size). It's
+extents (which can be anywhere from a single sector to the bucket size). It's
 designed to avoid random writes at all costs; it fills up an erase block
 sequentially, then issues a discard before reusing it.
 
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ immediately.  Without udev, you can manually register devices like this:
 Registering the backing device makes the bcache device show up in /dev; you can
 now format it and use it as normal. But the first time using a new bcache
 device, it'll be running in passthrough mode until you attach it to a cache.
-See the section on attaching.
+If you are thinking about using bcache later, it is recommended to setup all your
+slow devices as bcache backing devices without a cache, and you can choose to add
+a caching device later.
+See 'ATTACHING' section below.
 
 The devices show up as:
 
@@ -72,12 +75,14 @@ To get started:
   mount /dev/bcache0 /mnt
 
 You can control bcache devices through sysfs at /sys/block/bcache<N>/bcache .
+You can also control them through /sys/fs//bcache/<cset-uuid>/ .
 
 Cache devices are managed as sets; multiple caches per set isn't supported yet
 but will allow for mirroring of metadata and dirty data in the future. Your new
 cache set shows up as /sys/fs/bcache/<UUID>
 
-ATTACHING:
+ATTACHING
+---------
 
 After your cache device and backing device are registered, the backing device
 must be attached to your cache set to enable caching. Attaching a backing
@@ -105,7 +110,8 @@ but all the cached data will be invalidated. If there was dirty data in the
 cache, don't expect the filesystem to be recoverable - you will have massive
 filesystem corruption, though ext4's fsck does work miracles.
 
-ERROR HANDLING:
+ERROR HANDLING
+--------------
 
 Bcache tries to transparently handle IO errors to/from the cache device without
 affecting normal operation; if it sees too many errors (the threshold is
@@ -127,12 +133,181 @@ the backing devices to passthrough mode.
    writeback mode). It currently doesn't do anything intelligent if it fails to
    read some of the dirty data, though.
 
-TROUBLESHOOTING PERFORMANCE:
+
+HOWTO/COOKBOOK
+--------------
+
+A) Starting a bcache with a missing caching device
+
+If registering the backing device doesn't help, it's already there, you just need
+to force it to run without the cache:
+	host:~# echo /dev/sdb1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
+	[  119.844831] bcache: register_bcache() error opening /dev/sdb1: device already registered
+
+Next, you try to register your caching device if it's present. However
+if it's absent, or registration fails for some reason, you can still
+start your bcache without its cache, like so:
+	host:/sys/block/sdb/sdb1/bcache# echo 1 > running
+
+Note that this may cause data loss if you were running in writeback mode.
+
+
+B) Bcache does not find its cache
+
+	host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8 > attach
+	[ 1933.455082] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Couldn't find uuid for md5 in set
+	[ 1933.478179] bcache: __cached_dev_store() Can't attach 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8
+	[ 1933.478179] : cache set not found
+
+In this case, the caching device was simply not registered at boot
+or disappeared and came back, and needs to be (re-)registered:
+	host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo /dev/sdh2 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
+
+
+C) Corrupt bcache crashes the kernel at device registration time:
+
+This should never happen.  If it does happen, then you have found a bug!
+Please report it to the bcache development list: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
+
+Be sure to provide as much information that you can including kernel dmesg
+output if available so that we may assist.
+
+
+D) Recovering data without bcache:
+
+If bcache is not available in the kernel, a filesystem on the backing
+device is still available at an 8KiB offset. So either via a loopdev
+of the backing device created with --offset 8K, or any value defined by
+--data-offset when you originally formatted bcache with `make-bcache`.
+
+For example:
+	losetup -o 8192 /dev/loop0 /dev/your_bcache_backing_dev
+
+This should present your unmodified backing device data in /dev/loop0
+
+If your cache is in writethrough mode, then you can safely discard the
+cache device without loosing data.
+
+
+E) Wiping a cache device
+
+host:~# wipefs -a /dev/sdh2
+16 bytes were erased at offset 0x1018 (bcache)
+they were: c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81
+
+After you boot back with bcache enabled, you recreate the cache and attach it:
+host:~# make-bcache -C /dev/sdh2
+UUID:                   7be7e175-8f4c-4f99-94b2-9c904d227045
+Set UUID:               5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1
+version:                0
+nbuckets:               106874
+block_size:             1
+bucket_size:            1024
+nr_in_set:              1
+nr_this_dev:            0
+first_bucket:           1
+[  650.511912] bcache: run_cache_set() invalidating existing data
+[  650.549228] bcache: register_cache() registered cache device sdh2
+
+start backing device with missing cache:
+host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 1 > running
+
+attach new cache:
+host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 > attach
+[  865.276616] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Caching md5 as bcache0 on set 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1
+
+
+F) Remove or replace a caching device
+
+	host:/sys/block/sda/sda7/bcache# echo 1 > detach
+	[  695.872542] bcache: cached_dev_detach_finish() Caching disabled for sda7
+
+	host:~# wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1p4
+	wipefs: error: /dev/nvme0n1p4: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy
+	Ooops, it's disabled, but not unregistered, so it's still protected
+
+We need to go and unregister it:
+	host:/sys/fs/bcache/b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128# ls -l cache0
+	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 25 18:33 cache0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:70:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p4/bcache/
+	host:/sys/fs/bcache/b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128# echo 1 > stop
+	kernel: [  917.041908] bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128 unregistered
+
+Now we can wipe it:
+	host:~# wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1p4
+	/dev/nvme0n1p4: 16 bytes were erased at offset 0x00001018 (bcache): c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81
+
+
+G) dm-crypt and bcache
+
+First setup bcache unencrypted and then install dmcrypt on top of
+/dev/bcache<N> This will work faster than if you dmcrypt both the backing
+and caching devices and then install bcache on top. [benchmarks?]
+
+
+H) Stop/free a registered bcache to wipe and/or recreate it
+
+Suppose that you need to free up all bcache references so that you can
+fdisk run and re-register a changed partition table, which won't work
+if there are any active backing or caching devices left on it:
+
+1) Is it present in /dev/bcache* ? (there are times where it won't be)
+
+If so, it's easy:
+	host:/sys/block/bcache0/bcache# echo 1 > stop
+
+2) But if your backing device is gone, this won't work:
+	host:/sys/block/bcache0# cd bcache
+	bash: cd: bcache: No such file or directory
+
+In this case, you may have to unregister the dmcrypt block device that
+references this bcache to free it up:
+	host:~# dmsetup remove oldds1
+	bcache: bcache_device_free() bcache0 stopped
+	bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 unregistered
+
+This causes the backing bcache to be removed from /sys/fs/bcache and
+then it can be reused.  This would be true of any block device stacking
+where bcache is a lower device.
+
+3) In other cases, you can also look in /sys/fs/bcache/:
+
+host:/sys/fs/bcache# ls -l */{cache?,bdev?}
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar  5 09:39 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8/bdev1 -> ../../../devices/virtual/block/dm-1/bcache/
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar  5 09:39 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8/cache0 -> ../../../devices/virtual/block/dm-4/bcache/
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar  5 09:39 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1/cache0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/ata10/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0/block/sdl/sdl2/bcache/
+
+The device names will show which UUID is relevant, cd in that directory
+and stop the cache:
+	host:/sys/fs/bcache/5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1# echo 1 > stop
+
+This will free up bcache references and let you reuse the partition for
+other purposes.
+
+
+
+TROUBLESHOOTING PERFORMANCE
+---------------------------
 
 Bcache has a bunch of config options and tunables. The defaults are intended to
 be reasonable for typical desktop and server workloads, but they're not what you
 want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking.
 
+ - Backing device alignment
+
+   The default metadata size in bcache is 8k.  If your backing device is
+   RAID based, then be sure to align this by a multiple of your stride
+   width using `make-bcache --data-offset`. If you intend to expand your
+   disk array in the future, then multiply a series of primes by your
+   raid stripe size to get the disk multiples that you would like.
+
+   For example:  If you have a 64k stripe size, then the following offset
+   would provide alignment for many common RAID5 data spindle counts:
+	64k * 2*2*2*3*3*5*7 bytes = 161280k
+
+   That space is wasted, but for only 157.5MB you can grow your RAID 5
+   volume to the following data-spindle counts without re-aligning:
+	3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14,15,18,20,21 ...
+
  - Bad write performance
 
    If write performance is not what you expected, you probably wanted to be
@@ -140,7 +315,7 @@ want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking.
    maturity, but simply because in writeback mode you'll lose data if something
    happens to your SSD)
 
-   # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/cache_mode
+   # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode
 
  - Bad performance, or traffic not going to the SSD that you'd expect
 
@@ -193,7 +368,9 @@ want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking.
    Solution: warm the cache by doing writes, or use the testing branch (there's
    a fix for the issue there).
 
-SYSFS - BACKING DEVICE:
+
+SYSFS - BACKING DEVICE
+----------------------
 
 Available at /sys/block/<bdev>/bcache, /sys/block/bcache*/bcache and
 (if attached) /sys/fs/bcache/<cset-uuid>/bdev*
@@ -238,7 +415,7 @@ sequential_merge
   against all new requests to determine which new requests are sequential
   continuations of previous requests for the purpose of determining sequential
   cutoff. This is necessary if the sequential cutoff value is greater than the
-  maximum acceptable sequential size for any single request. 
+  maximum acceptable sequential size for any single request.
 
 state
   The backing device can be in one of four different states:
@@ -325,7 +502,7 @@ bucket_size
   Size of buckets
 
 cache<0..n>
-  Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set. 
+  Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
 
 cache_available_percent
   Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could
diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..792b6338ef19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,414 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# The Linux Kernel documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('sphinx'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = ['kernel-doc', 'rstFlatTable']
+
+# Gracefully handle missing rst2pdf.
+try:
+    import rst2pdf
+    extensions += ['rst2pdf.pdfbuilder']
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = 'The Linux Kernel'
+copyright = '2016, The kernel development community'
+author = 'The kernel development community'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# In a normal build, version and release are are set to KERNELVERSION and
+# KERNELRELEASE, respectively, from the Makefile via Sphinx command line
+# arguments.
+#
+# The following code tries to extract the information by reading the Makefile,
+# when Sphinx is run directly (e.g. by Read the Docs).
+try:
+    makefile_version = None
+    makefile_patchlevel = None
+    for line in open('../Makefile'):
+        key, val = [x.strip() for x in line.split('=', 2)]
+        if key == 'VERSION':
+            makefile_version = val
+        elif key == 'PATCHLEVEL':
+            makefile_patchlevel = val
+        if makefile_version and makefile_patchlevel:
+            break
+except:
+    pass
+finally:
+    if makefile_version and makefile_patchlevel:
+        version = release = makefile_version + '.' + makefile_patchlevel
+    else:
+        sys.stderr.write('Warning: Could not extract kernel version\n')
+        version = release = "unknown version"
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = ['output']
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+#show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+#modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+#keep_warnings = False
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = False
+
+primary_domain = 'C'
+highlight_language = 'C'
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+
+# The Read the Docs theme is available from
+# - https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme
+# - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx_rtd_theme
+# - python-sphinx-rtd-theme package (on Debian)
+try:
+    import sphinx_rtd_theme
+    html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
+    html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]
+except ImportError:
+    sys.stderr.write('Warning: The Sphinx \'sphinx_rtd_theme\' HTML theme was not found. Make sure you have the theme installed to produce pretty HTML output. Falling back to the default theme.\n')
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = []
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+#html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+#html_extra_path = []
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#html_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#html_use_index = True
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Language to be used for generating the HTML full-text search index.
+# Sphinx supports the following languages:
+#   'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'h', 'it', 'ja'
+#   'nl', 'no', 'pt', 'ro', 'r', 'sv', 'tr'
+#html_search_language = 'en'
+
+# A dictionary with options for the search language support, empty by default.
+# Now only 'ja' uses this config value
+#html_search_options = {'type': 'default'}
+
+# The name of a javascript file (relative to the configuration directory) that
+# implements a search results scorer. If empty, the default will be used.
+#html_search_scorer = 'scorer.js'
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'TheLinuxKerneldoc'
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+#'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+#'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#'preamble': '',
+
+# Latex figure (float) alignment
+#'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'TheLinuxKernel.tex', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
+     'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+#latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+#latex_use_parts = False
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+#latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#latex_domain_indices = True
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    (master_doc, 'thelinuxkernel', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
+     [author], 1)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#man_show_urls = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'TheLinuxKernel', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
+     author, 'TheLinuxKernel', 'One line description of project.',
+     'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
+#texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Epub output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# Bibliographic Dublin Core info.
+epub_title = project
+epub_author = author
+epub_publisher = author
+epub_copyright = copyright
+
+# The basename for the epub file. It defaults to the project name.
+#epub_basename = project
+
+# The HTML theme for the epub output. Since the default themes are not
+# optimized for small screen space, using the same theme for HTML and epub
+# output is usually not wise. This defaults to 'epub', a theme designed to save
+# visual space.
+#epub_theme = 'epub'
+
+# The language of the text. It defaults to the language option
+# or 'en' if the language is not set.
+#epub_language = ''
+
+# The scheme of the identifier. Typical schemes are ISBN or URL.
+#epub_scheme = ''
+
+# The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number
+# or the project homepage.
+#epub_identifier = ''
+
+# A unique identification for the text.
+#epub_uid = ''
+
+# A tuple containing the cover image and cover page html template filenames.
+#epub_cover = ()
+
+# A sequence of (type, uri, title) tuples for the guide element of content.opf.
+#epub_guide = ()
+
+# HTML files that should be inserted before the pages created by sphinx.
+# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title.
+#epub_pre_files = []
+
+# HTML files that should be inserted after the pages created by sphinx.
+# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title.
+#epub_post_files = []
+
+# A list of files that should not be packed into the epub file.
+epub_exclude_files = ['search.html']
+
+# The depth of the table of contents in toc.ncx.
+#epub_tocdepth = 3
+
+# Allow duplicate toc entries.
+#epub_tocdup = True
+
+# Choose between 'default' and 'includehidden'.
+#epub_tocscope = 'default'
+
+# Fix unsupported image types using the Pillow.
+#epub_fix_images = False
+
+# Scale large images.
+#epub_max_image_width = 0
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+#epub_show_urls = 'inline'
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#epub_use_index = True
+
+#=======
+# rst2pdf
+#
+# Grouping the document tree into PDF files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author, options).
+#
+# See the Sphinx chapter of http://ralsina.me/static/manual.pdf
+#
+# FIXME: Do not add the index file here; the result will be too big. Adding
+# multiple PDF files here actually tries to get the cross-referencing right
+# *between* PDF files.
+pdf_documents = [
+    ('index', u'Kernel', u'Kernel', u'J. Random Bozo'),
+]
+
+# kernel-doc extension configuration for running Sphinx directly (e.g. by Read
+# the Docs). In a normal build, these are supplied from the Makefile via command
+# line arguments.
+kerneldoc_bin = '../scripts/kernel-doc'
+kerneldoc_srctree = '..'
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding
index e3cb6a56653a..9a3ee77cefb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ which have not been so documented, there is no harm in adding kerneldoc
 comments for the future; indeed, this can be a useful activity for
 beginning kernel developers.  The format of these comments, along with some
 information on how to create kerneldoc templates can be found in the file
-Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt.
+Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst.
 
 Anybody who reads through a significant amount of existing kernel code will
 note that, often, comments are most notable by their absence.  Once again,
diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
index 122b7f4876bb..91ce82d5f0c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ supported.
    * device_resume
      - Resumes a transfer on the channel
      - This command should operate synchronously on the channel,
-       pausing right away the work of the given channel
+       resuming right away the work of the given channel
 
    * device_terminate_all
      - Aborts all the pending and ongoing transfers on the channel
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
index 1ab07860430d..139fab175c8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ This document will describe OCFS2 online file check feature.
 
 Introduction
 ============
-OCFS2 is often used in high-availaibility systems. However, OCFS2 usually
+OCFS2 is often used in high-availability systems. However, OCFS2 usually
 converts the filesystem to read-only when encounters an error. This may not be
 necessary, since turning the filesystem read-only would affect other running
 processes as well, decreasing availability.
 Then, a mount option (errors=continue) is introduced, which would return the
--EIO errno to the calling process and terminate furhter processing so that the
+-EIO errno to the calling process and terminate further processing so that the
 filesystem is not corrupted further. The filesystem is not converted to
 read-only, and the problematic file's inode number is reported in the kernel
 log. The user can try to check/fix this file via online filecheck feature.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ There is a sysfs directory for each OCFS2 file system mounting:
 
   /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
 
-Here, <devname> indicates the name of OCFS2 volumn device which has been already
+Here, <devname> indicates the name of OCFS2 volume device which has been already
 mounted. The file above would accept inode numbers. This could be used to
 communicate with kernel space, tell which file(inode number) will be checked or
 fixed. Currently, three operations are supported, which includes checking
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ The output is like this:
 This time, the <ERROR> column indicates whether this fix is successful or not.
 
 3. The record cache is used to store the history of check/fix results. It's
-defalut size is 10, and can be adjust between the range of 10 ~ 100. You can
+default size is 10, and can be adjust between the range of 10 ~ 100. You can
 adjust the size like this:
 
   # echo "<size>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck/set
 
 Fixing stuff
 ============
-On receivng the inode, the filesystem would read the inode and the
+On receiving the inode, the filesystem would read the inode and the
 file metadata. In case of errors, the filesystem would fix the errors
 and report the problems it fixed in the kernel log. As a precautionary measure,
 the inode must first be checked for errors before performing a final fix.
diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f92854f01773
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+.. The Linux Kernel documentation master file, created by
+   sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
+   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
+   contain the root `toctree` directive.
+
+Welcome to The Linux Kernel's documentation!
+============================================
+
+Nothing for you to see here *yet*. Please move along.
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   kernel-documentation
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`search`
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
index 78f69cdc9b3f..062e3af271b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+NOTE: this document is outdated and will eventually be removed.  See
+Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst for current information.
+
 kernel-doc nano-HOWTO
 =====================
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c4eb5049da39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,654 @@
+==========================
+Linux Kernel Documentation
+==========================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+The Linux kernel uses `Sphinx`_ to generate pretty documentation from
+`reStructuredText`_ files under ``Documentation``. To build the documentation in
+HTML or PDF formats, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The generated
+documentation is placed in ``Documentation/output``.
+
+.. _Sphinx: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/
+.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
+
+The reStructuredText files may contain directives to include structured
+documentation comments, or kernel-doc comments, from source files. Usually these
+are used to describe the functions and types and design of the code. The
+kernel-doc comments have some special structure and formatting, but beyond that
+they are also treated as reStructuredText.
+
+There is also the deprecated DocBook toolchain to generate documentation from
+DocBook XML template files under ``Documentation/DocBook``. The DocBook files
+are to be converted to reStructuredText, and the toolchain is slated to be
+removed.
+
+Finally, there are thousands of plain text documentation files scattered around
+``Documentation``. Some of these will likely be converted to reStructuredText
+over time, but the bulk of them will remain in plain text.
+
+Sphinx Build
+============
+
+The usual way to generate the documentation is to run ``make htmldocs`` or
+``make pdfdocs``. There are also other formats available, see the documentation
+section of ``make help``. The generated documentation is placed in
+format-specific subdirectories under ``Documentation/output``.
+
+To generate documentation, Sphinx (``sphinx-build``) must obviously be
+installed. For prettier HTML output, the Read the Docs Sphinx theme
+(``sphinx_rtd_theme``) is used if available. For PDF output, ``rst2pdf`` is also
+needed. All of these are widely available and packaged in distributions.
+
+To pass extra options to Sphinx, you can use the ``SPHINXOPTS`` make
+variable. For example, use ``make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs`` to get more verbose
+output.
+
+To remove the generated documentation, run ``make cleandocs``.
+
+Writing Documentation
+=====================
+
+Adding new documentation can be as simple as:
+
+1. Add a new ``.rst`` file somewhere under ``Documentation``.
+2. Refer to it from the Sphinx main `TOC tree`_ in ``Documentation/index.rst``.
+
+.. _TOC tree: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/markup/toctree.html
+
+This is usually good enough for simple documentation (like the one you're
+reading right now), but for larger documents it may be advisable to create a
+subdirectory (or use an existing one). For example, the graphics subsystem
+documentation is under ``Documentation/gpu``, split to several ``.rst`` files,
+and has a separate ``index.rst`` (with a ``toctree`` of its own) referenced from
+the main index.
+
+See the documentation for `Sphinx`_ and `reStructuredText`_ on what you can do
+with them. In particular, the Sphinx `reStructuredText Primer`_ is a good place
+to get started with reStructuredText. There are also some `Sphinx specific
+markup constructs`_.
+
+.. _reStructuredText Primer: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/rest.html
+.. _Sphinx specific markup constructs: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/markup/index.html
+
+Specific guidelines for the kernel documentation
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Here are some specific guidelines for the kernel documentation:
+
+* Please don't go overboard with reStructuredText markup. Keep it simple.
+
+* Please stick to this order of heading adornments:
+
+  1. ``=`` with overline for document title::
+
+       ==============
+       Document title
+       ==============
+
+  2. ``=`` for chapters::
+
+       Chapters
+       ========
+
+  3. ``-`` for sections::
+
+       Section
+       -------
+
+  4. ``~`` for subsections::
+
+       Subsection
+       ~~~~~~~~~~
+
+  Although RST doesn't mandate a specific order ("Rather than imposing a fixed
+  number and order of section title adornment styles, the order enforced will be
+  the order as encountered."), having the higher levels the same overall makes
+  it easier to follow the documents.
+
+list tables
+-----------
+
+We recommend the use of *list table* formats. The *list table* formats are
+double-stage lists. Compared to the ASCII-art they might not be as
+comfortable for 
+readers of the text files. Their advantage is that they are easy to
+create or modify and that the diff of a modification is much more meaningful,
+because it is limited to the modified content.
+
+The ``flat-table`` is a double-stage list similar to the ``list-table`` with
+some additional features:
+
+* column-span: with the role ``cspan`` a cell can be extended through
+  additional columns
+
+* row-span: with the role ``rspan`` a cell can be extended through
+  additional rows
+
+* auto span rightmost cell of a table row over the missing cells on the right
+  side of that table-row.  With Option ``:fill-cells:`` this behavior can
+  changed from *auto span* to *auto fill*, which automatically inserts (empty)
+  cells instead of spanning the last cell.
+
+options:
+
+* ``:header-rows:``   [int] count of header rows
+* ``:stub-columns:``  [int] count of stub columns
+* ``:widths:``        [[int] [int] ... ] widths of columns
+* ``:fill-cells:``    instead of auto-spanning missing cells, insert missing cells
+
+roles:
+
+* ``:cspan:`` [int] additional columns (*morecols*)
+* ``:rspan:`` [int] additional rows (*morerows*)
+
+The example below shows how to use this markup.  The first level of the staged
+list is the *table-row*. In the *table-row* there is only one markup allowed,
+the list of the cells in this *table-row*. Exceptions are *comments* ( ``..`` )
+and *targets* (e.g. a ref to ``:ref:`last row <last row>``` / :ref:`last row
+<last row>`).
+
+.. code-block:: rst
+
+   .. flat-table:: table title
+      :widths: 2 1 1 3
+
+      * - head col 1
+        - head col 2
+        - head col 3
+        - head col 4
+
+      * - column 1
+        - field 1.1
+        - field 1.2 with autospan
+
+      * - column 2
+        - field 2.1
+        - :rspan:`1` :cspan:`1` field 2.2 - 3.3
+
+      * .. _`last row`:
+
+        - column 3
+
+Rendered as:
+
+   .. flat-table:: table title
+      :widths: 2 1 1 3
+
+      * - head col 1
+        - head col 2
+        - head col 3
+        - head col 4
+
+      * - column 1
+        - field 1.1
+        - field 1.2 with autospan
+
+      * - column 2
+        - field 2.1
+        - :rspan:`1` :cspan:`1` field 2.2 - 3.3
+
+      * .. _`last row`:
+
+        - column 3
+
+
+Including kernel-doc comments
+=============================
+
+The Linux kernel source files may contain structured documentation comments, or
+kernel-doc comments to describe the functions and types and design of the
+code. The documentation comments may be included to any of the reStructuredText
+documents using a dedicated kernel-doc Sphinx directive extension.
+
+The kernel-doc directive is of the format::
+
+  .. kernel-doc:: source
+     :option:
+
+The *source* is the path to a source file, relative to the kernel source
+tree. The following directive options are supported:
+
+export: *[source-pattern ...]*
+  Include documentation for all functions in *source* that have been exported
+  using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL`` or ``EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL`` either in *source* or in any
+  of the files specified by *source-pattern*.
+
+  The *source-pattern* is useful when the kernel-doc comments have been placed
+  in header files, while ``EXPORT_SYMBOL`` and ``EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL`` are next to
+  the function definitions.
+
+  Examples::
+
+    .. kernel-doc:: lib/bitmap.c
+       :export:
+
+    .. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+       :export: net/mac80211/*.c
+
+internal: *[source-pattern ...]*
+  Include documentation for all functions and types in *source* that have
+  **not** been exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL`` or ``EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL`` either
+  in *source* or in any of the files specified by *source-pattern*.
+
+  Example::
+
+    .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c
+       :internal:
+
+doc: *title*
+  Include documentation for the ``DOC:`` paragraph identified by *title* in
+  *source*. Spaces are allowed in *title*; do not quote the *title*. The *title*
+  is only used as an identifier for the paragraph, and is not included in the
+  output. Please make sure to have an appropriate heading in the enclosing
+  reStructuredText document.
+
+  Example::
+
+    .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c
+       :doc: High Definition Audio over HDMI and Display Port
+
+functions: *function* *[...]*
+  Include documentation for each *function* in *source*.
+
+  Example::
+
+    .. kernel-doc:: lib/bitmap.c
+       :functions: bitmap_parselist bitmap_parselist_user
+
+Without options, the kernel-doc directive includes all documentation comments
+from the source file.
+
+The kernel-doc extension is included in the kernel source tree, at
+``Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py``. Internally, it uses the
+``scripts/kernel-doc`` script to extract the documentation comments from the
+source.
+
+Writing kernel-doc comments
+===========================
+
+In order to provide embedded, "C" friendly, easy to maintain, but consistent and
+extractable overview, function and type documentation, the Linux kernel has
+adopted a consistent style for documentation comments. The format for this
+documentation is called the kernel-doc format, described below. This style
+embeds the documentation within the source files, using a few simple conventions
+for adding documentation paragraphs and documenting functions and their
+parameters, structures and unions and their members, enumerations, and typedefs.
+
+.. note:: The kernel-doc format is deceptively similar to gtk-doc or Doxygen,
+   yet distinctively different, for historical reasons. The kernel source
+   contains tens of thousands of kernel-doc comments. Please stick to the style
+   described here.
+
+The ``scripts/kernel-doc`` script is used by the Sphinx kernel-doc extension in
+the documentation build to extract this embedded documentation into the various
+HTML, PDF, and other format documents.
+
+In order to provide good documentation of kernel functions and data structures,
+please use the following conventions to format your kernel-doc comments in the
+Linux kernel source.
+
+How to format kernel-doc comments
+---------------------------------
+
+The opening comment mark ``/**`` is reserved for kernel-doc comments. Only
+comments so marked will be considered by the ``kernel-doc`` tool. Use it only
+for comment blocks that contain kernel-doc formatted comments. The usual ``*/``
+should be used as the closing comment marker. The lines in between should be
+prefixed by `` * `` (space star space).
+
+The function and type kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the
+function or type being described. The overview kernel-doc comments may be freely
+placed at the top indentation level.
+
+Example kernel-doc function comment::
+
+  /**
+   * foobar() - Brief description of foobar.
+   * @arg: Description of argument of foobar.
+   *
+   * Longer description of foobar.
+   *
+   * Return: Description of return value of foobar.
+   */
+  int foobar(int arg)
+
+The format is similar for documentation for structures, enums, paragraphs,
+etc. See the sections below for details.
+
+The kernel-doc structure is extracted from the comments, and proper `Sphinx C
+Domain`_ function and type descriptions with anchors are generated for them. The
+descriptions are filtered for special kernel-doc highlights and
+cross-references. See below for details.
+
+.. _Sphinx C Domain: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/domains.html
+
+Highlights and cross-references
+-------------------------------
+
+The following special patterns are recognized in the kernel-doc comment
+descriptive text and converted to proper reStructuredText markup and `Sphinx C
+Domain`_ references.
+
+.. attention:: The below are **only** recognized within kernel-doc comments,
+	       **not** within normal reStructuredText documents.
+
+``funcname()``
+  Function reference.
+
+``@parameter``
+  Name of a function parameter. (No cross-referencing, just formatting.)
+
+``%CONST``
+  Name of a constant. (No cross-referencing, just formatting.)
+
+``$ENVVAR``
+  Name of an environment variable. (No cross-referencing, just formatting.)
+
+``&struct name``
+  Structure reference.
+
+``&enum name``
+  Enum reference.
+
+``&typedef name``
+  Typedef reference.
+
+``&struct_name->member`` or ``&struct_name.member``
+  Structure or union member reference. The cross-reference will be to the struct
+  or union definition, not the member directly.
+
+``&name``
+  A generic type reference. Prefer using the full reference described above
+  instead. This is mostly for legacy comments.
+
+Cross-referencing from reStructuredText
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. highlight:: none
+
+To cross-reference the functions and types defined in the kernel-doc comments
+from reStructuredText documents, please use the `Sphinx C Domain`_
+references. For example::
+
+  See function :c:func:`foo` and struct/union/enum/typedef :c:type:`bar`.
+
+While the type reference works with just the type name, without the
+struct/union/enum/typedef part in front, you may want to use::
+
+  See :c:type:`struct foo <foo>`.
+  See :c:type:`union bar <bar>`.
+  See :c:type:`enum baz <baz>`.
+  See :c:type:`typedef meh <meh>`.
+
+This will produce prettier links, and is in line with how kernel-doc does the
+cross-references.
+
+For further details, please refer to the `Sphinx C Domain`_ documentation.
+
+Function documentation
+----------------------
+
+.. highlight:: c
+
+The general format of a function and function-like macro kernel-doc comment is::
+
+  /**
+   * function_name() - Brief description of function.
+   * @arg1: Describe the first argument.
+   * @arg2: Describe the second argument.
+   *        One can provide multiple line descriptions
+   *        for arguments.
+   *
+   * A longer description, with more discussion of the function function_name()
+   * that might be useful to those using or modifying it. Begins with an
+   * empty comment line, and may include additional embedded empty
+   * comment lines.
+   *
+   * The longer description may have multiple paragraphs.
+   *
+   * Return: Describe the return value of foobar.
+   *
+   * The return value description can also have multiple paragraphs, and should
+   * be placed at the end of the comment block.
+   */
+
+The brief description following the function name may span multiple lines, and
+ends with an ``@argument:`` description, a blank comment line, or the end of the
+comment block.
+
+The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the function, in
+order, with the ``@argument:`` descriptions. The ``@argument:`` descriptions
+must begin on the very next line following the opening brief function
+description line, with no intervening blank comment lines. The ``@argument:``
+descriptions may span multiple lines. The continuation lines may contain
+indentation. If a function parameter is ``...`` (varargs), it should be listed
+in kernel-doc notation as: ``@...:``.
+
+The return value, if any, should be described in a dedicated section at the end
+of the comment starting with "Return:".
+
+Structure, union, and enumeration documentation
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+The general format of a struct, union, and enum kernel-doc comment is::
+
+  /**
+   * struct struct_name - Brief description.
+   * @member_name: Description of member member_name.
+   *
+   * Description of the structure.
+   */
+
+Below, "struct" is used to mean structs, unions and enums, and "member" is used
+to mean struct and union members as well as enumerations in an enum.
+
+The brief description following the structure name may span multiple lines, and
+ends with a ``@member:`` description, a blank comment line, or the end of the
+comment block.
+
+The kernel-doc data structure comments describe each member of the structure, in
+order, with the ``@member:`` descriptions. The ``@member:`` descriptions must
+begin on the very next line following the opening brief function description
+line, with no intervening blank comment lines. The ``@member:`` descriptions may
+span multiple lines. The continuation lines may contain indentation.
+
+In-line member documentation comments
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition::
+
+  /**
+   * struct foo - Brief description.
+   * @foo: The Foo member.
+   */
+  struct foo {
+        int foo;
+        /**
+         * @bar: The Bar member.
+         */
+        int bar;
+        /**
+         * @baz: The Baz member.
+         *
+         * Here, the member description may contain several paragraphs.
+         */
+        int baz;
+  }
+
+Private members
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Inside a struct description, you can use the "private:" and "public:" comment
+tags. Structure fields that are inside a "private:" area are not listed in the
+generated output documentation.  The "private:" and "public:" tags must begin
+immediately following a ``/*`` comment marker.  They may optionally include
+comments between the ``:`` and the ending ``*/`` marker.
+
+Example::
+
+  /**
+   * struct my_struct - short description
+   * @a: first member
+   * @b: second member
+   *
+   * Longer description
+   */
+  struct my_struct {
+      int a;
+      int b;
+  /* private: internal use only */
+      int c;
+  };
+
+
+Typedef documentation
+---------------------
+
+The general format of a typedef kernel-doc comment is::
+
+  /**
+   * typedef type_name - Brief description.
+   *
+   * Description of the type.
+   */
+
+Overview documentation comments
+-------------------------------
+
+To facilitate having source code and comments close together, you can include
+kernel-doc documentation blocks that are free-form comments instead of being
+kernel-doc for functions, structures, unions, enums, or typedefs. This could be
+used for something like a theory of operation for a driver or library code, for
+example.
+
+This is done by using a ``DOC:`` section keyword with a section title.
+
+The general format of an overview or high-level documentation comment is::
+
+  /**
+   * DOC: Theory of Operation
+   *
+   * The whizbang foobar is a dilly of a gizmo. It can do whatever you
+   * want it to do, at any time. It reads your mind. Here's how it works.
+   *
+   * foo bar splat
+   *
+   * The only drawback to this gizmo is that is can sometimes damage
+   * hardware, software, or its subject(s).
+   */
+
+The title following ``DOC:`` acts as a heading within the source file, but also
+as an identifier for extracting the documentation comment. Thus, the title must
+be unique within the file.
+
+Recommendations
+---------------
+
+We definitely need kernel-doc formatted documentation for functions that are
+exported to loadable modules using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL`` or ``EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL``.
+
+We also look to provide kernel-doc formatted documentation for functions
+externally visible to other kernel files (not marked "static").
+
+We also recommend providing kernel-doc formatted documentation for private (file
+"static") routines, for consistency of kernel source code layout. But this is
+lower priority and at the discretion of the MAINTAINER of that kernel source
+file.
+
+Data structures visible in kernel include files should also be documented using
+kernel-doc formatted comments.
+
+DocBook XML [DEPRECATED]
+========================
+
+.. attention::
+
+   This section describes the deprecated DocBook XML toolchain. Please do not
+   create new DocBook XML template files. Please consider converting existing
+   DocBook XML templates files to Sphinx/reStructuredText.
+
+Converting DocBook to Sphinx
+----------------------------
+
+.. highlight:: none
+
+Over time, we expect all of the documents under ``Documentation/DocBook`` to be
+converted to Sphinx and reStructuredText. For most DocBook XML documents, a good
+enough solution is to use the simple ``Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt`` script,
+which uses ``pandoc`` under the hood. For example::
+
+  $ cd Documentation/sphinx
+  $ ./tmplcvt ../DocBook/in.tmpl ../out.rst
+
+Then edit the resulting rst files to fix any remaining issues, and add the
+document in the ``toctree`` in ``Documentation/index.rst``.
+
+Components of the kernel-doc system
+-----------------------------------
+
+Many places in the source tree have extractable documentation in the form of
+block comments above functions. The components of this system are:
+
+- ``scripts/kernel-doc``
+
+  This is a perl script that hunts for the block comments and can mark them up
+  directly into reStructuredText, DocBook, man, text, and HTML. (No, not
+  texinfo.)
+
+- ``Documentation/DocBook/*.tmpl``
+
+  These are XML template files, which are normal XML files with special
+  place-holders for where the extracted documentation should go.
+
+- ``scripts/docproc.c``
+
+  This is a program for converting XML template files into XML files. When a
+  file is referenced it is searched for symbols exported (EXPORT_SYMBOL), to be
+  able to distinguish between internal and external functions.
+
+  It invokes kernel-doc, giving it the list of functions that are to be
+  documented.
+
+  Additionally it is used to scan the XML template files to locate all the files
+  referenced herein. This is used to generate dependency information as used by
+  make.
+
+- ``Makefile``
+
+  The targets 'xmldocs', 'psdocs', 'pdfdocs', and 'htmldocs' are used to build
+  DocBook XML files, PostScript files, PDF files, and html files in
+  Documentation/DocBook. The older target 'sgmldocs' is equivalent to 'xmldocs'.
+
+- ``Documentation/DocBook/Makefile``
+
+  This is where C files are associated with SGML templates.
+
+How to use kernel-doc comments in DocBook XML template files
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+DocBook XML template files (\*.tmpl) are like normal XML files, except that they
+can contain escape sequences where extracted documentation should be inserted.
+
+``!E<filename>`` is replaced by the documentation, in ``<filename>``, for
+functions that are exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL``: the function list is
+collected from files listed in ``Documentation/DocBook/Makefile``.
+
+``!I<filename>`` is replaced by the documentation for functions that are **not**
+exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL``.
+
+``!D<filename>`` is used to name additional files to search for functions
+exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL``.
+
+``!F<filename> <function [functions...]>`` is replaced by the documentation, in
+``<filename>``, for the functions listed.
+
+``!P<filename> <section title>`` is replaced by the contents of the ``DOC:``
+section titled ``<section title>`` from ``<filename>``. Spaces are allowed in
+``<section title>``; do not quote the ``<section title>``.
+
+``!C<filename>`` is replaced by nothing, but makes the tools check that all DOC:
+sections and documented functions, symbols, etc. are used. This makes sense to
+use when you use ``!F`` or ``!P`` only and want to verify that all documentation
+is included.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index f1fac4d3dc51..724970a25666 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3996,8 +3996,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	trace_event=[event-list]
 			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
-			to facilitate early boot debugging.
-			See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
+			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
+			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
+			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
 
 	trace_options=[option-list]
 			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 1a2ada46aaed..d6e2fcf27337 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ These currently include
 
   stripe_cache_size  (currently raid5 only)
       number of entries in the stripe cache.  This is writable, but
-      there are upper and lower limits (32768, 16).  Default is 128.
+      there are upper and lower limits (32768, 17).  Default is 256.
   strip_cache_active (currently raid5 only)
       number of active entries in the stripe cache
   preread_bypass_threshold (currently raid5 only)
diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
index 30fb842a976d..49db1def1721 100644
--- a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
+++ b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
@@ -1538,9 +1538,9 @@ set_cmdline(struct mic_info *mic)
 
 	len = snprintf(buffer, PATH_MAX,
 		"clocksource=tsc highres=off nohz=off ");
-	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX,
+	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX - len,
 		"cpufreq_on;corec6_off;pc3_off;pc6_off ");
-	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX,
+	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX - len,
 		"ifcfg=static;address,172.31.%d.1;netmask,255.255.255.0",
 		mic->id + 1);
 
diff --git a/Documentation/security/self-protection.txt b/Documentation/security/self-protection.txt
index babd6378ec05..3010576c9fca 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/self-protection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/self-protection.txt
@@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ provide meaningful defenses.
 ### Canaries, blinding, and other secrets
 
 It should be noted that things like the stack canary discussed earlier
-are technically statistical defenses, since they rely on a (leakable)
-secret value.
+are technically statistical defenses, since they rely on a secret value,
+and such values may become discoverable through an information exposure
+flaw.
 
 Blinding literal values for things like JITs, where the executable
 contents may be partially under the control of userspace, need a similar
@@ -199,8 +200,8 @@ working?) in order to maximize their success.
 Since the location of kernel memory is almost always instrumental in
 mounting a successful attack, making the location non-deterministic
 raises the difficulty of an exploit. (Note that this in turn makes
-the value of leaks higher, since they may be used to discover desired
-memory locations.)
+the value of information exposures higher, since they may be used to
+discover desired memory locations.)
 
 #### Text and module base
 
@@ -222,14 +223,21 @@ become more difficult to locate.
 Much of the kernel's dynamic memory (e.g. kmalloc, vmalloc, etc) ends up
 being relatively deterministic in layout due to the order of early-boot
 initializations. If the base address of these areas is not the same
-between boots, targeting them is frustrated, requiring a leak specific
-to the region.
+between boots, targeting them is frustrated, requiring an information
+exposure specific to the region.
+
+#### Structure layout
+
+By performing a per-build randomization of the layout of sensitive
+structures, attacks must either be tuned to known kernel builds or expose
+enough kernel memory to determine structure layouts before manipulating
+them.
 
 
-## Preventing Leaks
+## Preventing Information Exposures
 
 Since the locations of sensitive structures are the primary target for
-attacks, it is important to defend against leaks of both kernel memory
+attacks, it is important to defend against exposure of both kernel memory
 addresses and kernel memory contents (since they may contain kernel
 addresses or other sensitive things like canary values).
 
@@ -250,8 +258,8 @@ sure structure holes are cleared.
 When releasing memory, it is best to poison the contents (clear stack on
 syscall return, wipe heap memory on a free), to avoid reuse attacks that
 rely on the old contents of memory. This frustrates many uninitialized
-variable attacks, stack info leaks, heap info leaks, and use-after-free
-attacks.
+variable attacks, stack content exposures, heap content exposures, and
+use-after-free attacks.
 
 ### Destination tracking
 
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/convert_template.sed b/Documentation/sphinx/convert_template.sed
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c1503fcca4ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/convert_template.sed
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#
+# Pandoc doesn't grok <function> or <structname>, so convert them
+# ahead of time.
+#
+# Use the following escapes to pass through pandoc:
+#	$bq = "`"
+#	$lt = "<"
+#	$gt = ">"
+#
+s%<function>\([^<(]\+\)()</function>%:c:func:$bq\1()$bq%g
+s%<function>\([^<(]\+\)</function>%:c:func:$bq\1()$bq%g
+s%<structname>struct *\([^<]\+\)</structname>%:c:type:$bqstruct \1 $lt\1$gt$bq%g
+s%struct <structname>\([^<]\+\)</structname>%:c:type:$bqstruct \1 $lt\1$gt$bq%g
+s%<structname>\([^<]\+\)</structname>%:c:type:$bqstruct \1 $lt\1$gt$bq%g
+#
+# Wrap docproc directives in para and code blocks.
+#
+s%^\(!.*\)$%<para><code>DOCPROC: \1</code></para>%
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f6920c0af6ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+#
+# Copyright © 2016 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+# paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+# Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+# IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Authors:
+#    Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
+#
+# Please make sure this works on both python2 and python3.
+#
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import re
+import glob
+
+from docutils import nodes, statemachine
+from docutils.statemachine import ViewList
+from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
+from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
+from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter
+
+class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
+    """Extract kernel-doc comments from the specified file"""
+    required_argument = 1
+    optional_arguments = 4
+    option_spec = {
+        'doc': directives.unchanged_required,
+        'functions': directives.unchanged_required,
+        'export': directives.unchanged,
+        'internal': directives.unchanged,
+    }
+    has_content = False
+
+    def run(self):
+        env = self.state.document.settings.env
+        cmd = [env.config.kerneldoc_bin, '-rst', '-enable-lineno']
+
+        filename = env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + self.arguments[0]
+        export_file_patterns = []
+
+        # Tell sphinx of the dependency
+        env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(filename))
+
+        tab_width = self.options.get('tab-width', self.state.document.settings.tab_width)
+
+        # FIXME: make this nicer and more robust against errors
+        if 'export' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-export']
+            export_file_patterns = str(self.options.get('export')).split()
+        elif 'internal' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-internal']
+            export_file_patterns = str(self.options.get('internal')).split()
+        elif 'doc' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-function', str(self.options.get('doc'))]
+        elif 'functions' in self.options:
+            for f in str(self.options.get('functions')).split():
+                cmd += ['-function', f]
+
+        for pattern in export_file_patterns:
+            for f in glob.glob(env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + pattern):
+                env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(f))
+                cmd += ['-export-file', f]
+
+        cmd += [filename]
+
+        try:
+            env.app.verbose('calling kernel-doc \'%s\'' % (" ".join(cmd)))
+
+            p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
+            out, err = p.communicate()
+
+            # python2 needs conversion to unicode.
+            # python3 with universal_newlines=True returns strings.
+            if sys.version_info.major < 3:
+                out, err = unicode(out, 'utf-8'), unicode(err, 'utf-8')
+
+            if p.returncode != 0:
+                sys.stderr.write(err)
+
+                env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' failed with return code %d' % (" ".join(cmd), p.returncode))
+                return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))]
+            elif env.config.kerneldoc_verbosity > 0:
+                sys.stderr.write(err)
+
+            lines = statemachine.string2lines(out, tab_width, convert_whitespace=True)
+            result = ViewList()
+
+            lineoffset = 0;
+            line_regex = re.compile("^#define LINENO ([0-9]+)$")
+            for line in lines:
+                match = line_regex.search(line)
+                if match:
+                    # sphinx counts lines from 0
+                    lineoffset = int(match.group(1)) - 1
+                    # we must eat our comments since the upset the markup
+                else:
+                    result.append(line, filename, lineoffset)
+                    lineoffset += 1
+
+            node = nodes.section()
+            buf = self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level, self.state.memo.reporter
+            self.state.memo.reporter = AutodocReporter(result, self.state.memo.reporter)
+            self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level = [], 0
+            try:
+                self.state.nested_parse(result, 0, node, match_titles=1)
+            finally:
+                self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level, self.state.memo.reporter = buf
+
+            return node.children
+
+        except Exception as e:  # pylint: disable=W0703
+            env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' processing failed with: %s' %
+                         (" ".join(cmd), str(e)))
+            return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))]
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_bin', None, 'env')
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_srctree', None, 'env')
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_verbosity', 1, 'env')
+
+    app.add_directive('kernel-doc', KernelDocDirective)
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/post_convert.sed b/Documentation/sphinx/post_convert.sed
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..392770bac53b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/post_convert.sed
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#
+# Unescape.
+#
+s/$bq/`/g
+s/$lt/</g
+s/$gt/>/g
+#
+# pandoc thinks that both "_" needs to be escaped.  Remove the extra
+# backslashes.
+#
+s/\\_/_/g
+#
+# Unwrap docproc directives.
+#
+s/^``DOCPROC: !E\(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :export:/
+s/^``DOCPROC: !I\(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :internal:/
+s/^``DOCPROC: !F\([^ ]*\) \(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :functions: \2/
+s/^``DOCPROC: !P\([^ ]*\) \(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :doc: \2/
+s/^``DOCPROC: \(!.*\)``$/.. WARNING: DOCPROC directive not supported: \1/
+#
+# Trim trailing whitespace.
+#
+s/[[:space:]]*$//
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.py b/Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..26db852e3c74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.py
@@ -0,0 +1,365 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+# pylint: disable=C0330, R0903, R0912
+
+u"""
+    flat-table
+    ~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Implementation of the ``flat-table`` reST-directive.
+
+    :copyright:  Copyright (C) 2016  Markus Heiser
+    :license:    GPL Version 2, June 1991 see linux/COPYING for details.
+
+    The ``flat-table`` (:py:class:`FlatTable`) is a double-stage list similar to
+    the ``list-table`` with some additional features:
+
+    * *column-span*: with the role ``cspan`` a cell can be extended through
+      additional columns
+
+    * *row-span*: with the role ``rspan`` a cell can be extended through
+      additional rows
+
+    * *auto span* rightmost cell of a table row over the missing cells on the
+      right side of that table-row.  With Option ``:fill-cells:`` this behavior
+      can changed from *auto span* to *auto fill*, which automaticly inserts
+      (empty) cells instead of spanning the last cell.
+
+    Options:
+
+    * header-rows:   [int] count of header rows
+    * stub-columns:  [int] count of stub columns
+    * widths:        [[int] [int] ... ] widths of columns
+    * fill-cells:    instead of autospann missing cells, insert missing cells
+
+    roles:
+
+    * cspan: [int] additionale columns (*morecols*)
+    * rspan: [int] additionale rows (*morerows*)
+"""
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# imports
+# ==============================================================================
+
+import sys
+
+from docutils import nodes
+from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, roles
+from docutils.parsers.rst.directives.tables import Table
+from docutils.utils import SystemMessagePropagation
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# common globals
+# ==============================================================================
+
+# The version numbering follows numbering of the specification
+# (Documentation/books/kernel-doc-HOWTO).
+__version__  = '1.0'
+
+PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
+PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2
+
+if PY3:
+    # pylint: disable=C0103, W0622
+    unicode     = str
+    basestring  = str
+
+# ==============================================================================
+def setup(app):
+# ==============================================================================
+
+    app.add_directive("flat-table", FlatTable)
+    roles.register_local_role('cspan', c_span)
+    roles.register_local_role('rspan', r_span)
+
+# ==============================================================================
+def c_span(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options=None, content=None):
+# ==============================================================================
+    # pylint: disable=W0613
+
+    options  = options if options is not None else {}
+    content  = content if content is not None else []
+    nodelist = [colSpan(span=int(text))]
+    msglist  = []
+    return nodelist, msglist
+
+# ==============================================================================
+def r_span(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options=None, content=None):
+# ==============================================================================
+    # pylint: disable=W0613
+
+    options  = options if options is not None else {}
+    content  = content if content is not None else []
+    nodelist = [rowSpan(span=int(text))]
+    msglist  = []
+    return nodelist, msglist
+
+
+# ==============================================================================
+class rowSpan(nodes.General, nodes.Element): pass # pylint: disable=C0103,C0321
+class colSpan(nodes.General, nodes.Element): pass # pylint: disable=C0103,C0321
+# ==============================================================================
+
+# ==============================================================================
+class FlatTable(Table):
+# ==============================================================================
+
+    u"""FlatTable (``flat-table``) directive"""
+
+    option_spec = {
+        'name': directives.unchanged
+        , 'class': directives.class_option
+        , 'header-rows': directives.nonnegative_int
+        , 'stub-columns': directives.nonnegative_int
+        , 'widths': directives.positive_int_list
+        , 'fill-cells' : directives.flag }
+
+    def run(self):
+
+        if not self.content:
+            error = self.state_machine.reporter.error(
+                'The "%s" directive is empty; content required.' % self.name,
+                nodes.literal_block(self.block_text, self.block_text),
+                line=self.lineno)
+            return [error]
+
+        title, messages = self.make_title()
+        node = nodes.Element()          # anonymous container for parsing
+        self.state.nested_parse(self.content, self.content_offset, node)
+
+        tableBuilder = ListTableBuilder(self)
+        tableBuilder.parseFlatTableNode(node)
+        tableNode = tableBuilder.buildTableNode()
+        # SDK.CONSOLE()  # print --> tableNode.asdom().toprettyxml()
+        if title:
+            tableNode.insert(0, title)
+        return [tableNode] + messages
+
+
+# ==============================================================================
+class ListTableBuilder(object):
+# ==============================================================================
+
+    u"""Builds a table from a double-stage list"""
+
+    def __init__(self, directive):
+        self.directive = directive
+        self.rows      = []
+        self.max_cols  = 0
+
+    def buildTableNode(self):
+
+        colwidths    = self.directive.get_column_widths(self.max_cols)
+        stub_columns = self.directive.options.get('stub-columns', 0)
+        header_rows  = self.directive.options.get('header-rows', 0)
+
+        table = nodes.table()
+        tgroup = nodes.tgroup(cols=len(colwidths))
+        table += tgroup
+
+
+        for colwidth in colwidths:
+            colspec = nodes.colspec(colwidth=colwidth)
+            # FIXME: It seems, that the stub method only works well in the
+            # absence of rowspan (observed by the html buidler, the docutils-xml
+            # build seems OK).  This is not extraordinary, because there exists
+            # no table directive (except *this* flat-table) which allows to
+            # define coexistent of rowspan and stubs (there was no use-case
+            # before flat-table). This should be reviewed (later).
+            if stub_columns:
+                colspec.attributes['stub'] = 1
+                stub_columns -= 1
+            tgroup += colspec
+        stub_columns = self.directive.options.get('stub-columns', 0)
+
+        if header_rows:
+            thead = nodes.thead()
+            tgroup += thead
+            for row in self.rows[:header_rows]:
+                thead += self.buildTableRowNode(row)
+
+        tbody = nodes.tbody()
+        tgroup += tbody
+
+        for row in self.rows[header_rows:]:
+            tbody += self.buildTableRowNode(row)
+        return table
+
+    def buildTableRowNode(self, row_data, classes=None):
+        classes = [] if classes is None else classes
+        row = nodes.row()
+        for cell in row_data:
+            if cell is None:
+                continue
+            cspan, rspan, cellElements = cell
+
+            attributes = {"classes" : classes}
+            if rspan:
+                attributes['morerows'] = rspan
+            if cspan:
+                attributes['morecols'] = cspan
+            entry = nodes.entry(**attributes)
+            entry.extend(cellElements)
+            row += entry
+        return row
+
+    def raiseError(self, msg):
+        error =  self.directive.state_machine.reporter.error(
+            msg
+            , nodes.literal_block(self.directive.block_text
+                                  , self.directive.block_text)
+            , line = self.directive.lineno )
+        raise SystemMessagePropagation(error)
+
+    def parseFlatTableNode(self, node):
+        u"""parses the node from a :py:class:`FlatTable` directive's body"""
+
+        if len(node) != 1 or not isinstance(node[0], nodes.bullet_list):
+            self.raiseError(
+                'Error parsing content block for the "%s" directive: '
+                'exactly one bullet list expected.' % self.directive.name )
+
+        for rowNum, rowItem in enumerate(node[0]):
+            row = self.parseRowItem(rowItem, rowNum)
+            self.rows.append(row)
+        self.roundOffTableDefinition()
+
+    def roundOffTableDefinition(self):
+        u"""Round off the table definition.
+
+        This method rounds off the table definition in :py:member:`rows`.
+
+        * This method inserts the needed ``None`` values for the missing cells
+        arising from spanning cells over rows and/or columns.
+
+        * recount the :py:member:`max_cols`
+
+        * Autospan or fill (option ``fill-cells``) missing cells on the right
+          side of the table-row
+        """
+
+        y = 0
+        while y < len(self.rows):
+            x = 0
+
+            while x < len(self.rows[y]):
+                cell = self.rows[y][x]
+                if cell is None:
+                    x += 1
+                    continue
+                cspan, rspan = cell[:2]
+                # handle colspan in current row
+                for c in range(cspan):
+                    try:
+                        self.rows[y].insert(x+c+1, None)
+                    except: # pylint: disable=W0702
+                        # the user sets ambiguous rowspans
+                        pass # SDK.CONSOLE()
+                # handle colspan in spanned rows
+                for r in range(rspan):
+                    for c in range(cspan + 1):
+                        try:
+                            self.rows[y+r+1].insert(x+c, None)
+                        except: # pylint: disable=W0702
+                            # the user sets ambiguous rowspans
+                            pass # SDK.CONSOLE()
+                x += 1
+            y += 1
+
+        # Insert the missing cells on the right side. For this, first
+        # re-calculate the max columns.
+
+        for row in self.rows:
+            if self.max_cols < len(row):
+                self.max_cols = len(row)
+
+        # fill with empty cells or cellspan?
+
+        fill_cells = False
+        if 'fill-cells' in self.directive.options:
+            fill_cells = True
+
+        for row in self.rows:
+            x =  self.max_cols - len(row)
+            if x and not fill_cells:
+                if row[-1] is None:
+                    row.append( ( x - 1, 0, []) )
+                else:
+                    cspan, rspan, content = row[-1]
+                    row[-1] = (cspan + x, rspan, content)
+            elif x and fill_cells:
+                for i in range(x):
+                    row.append( (0, 0, nodes.comment()) )
+
+    def pprint(self):
+        # for debugging
+        retVal = "[   "
+        for row in self.rows:
+            retVal += "[ "
+            for col in row:
+                if col is None:
+                    retVal += ('%r' % col)
+                    retVal += "\n    , "
+                else:
+                    content = col[2][0].astext()
+                    if len (content) > 30:
+                        content = content[:30] + "..."
+                    retVal += ('(cspan=%s, rspan=%s, %r)'
+                               % (col[0], col[1], content))
+                    retVal += "]\n    , "
+            retVal = retVal[:-2]
+            retVal += "]\n  , "
+        retVal = retVal[:-2]
+        return retVal + "]"
+
+    def parseRowItem(self, rowItem, rowNum):
+        row = []
+        childNo = 0
+        error   = False
+        cell    = None
+        target  = None
+
+        for child in rowItem:
+            if (isinstance(child , nodes.comment)
+                or isinstance(child, nodes.system_message)):
+                pass
+            elif isinstance(child , nodes.target):
+                target = child
+            elif isinstance(child, nodes.bullet_list):
+                childNo += 1
+                cell = child
+            else:
+                error = True
+                break
+
+        if childNo != 1 or error:
+            self.raiseError(
+                'Error parsing content block for the "%s" directive: '
+                'two-level bullet list expected, but row %s does not '
+                'contain a second-level bullet list.'
+                % (self.directive.name, rowNum + 1))
+
+        for cellItem in cell:
+            cspan, rspan, cellElements = self.parseCellItem(cellItem)
+            if target is not None:
+                cellElements.insert(0, target)
+            row.append( (cspan, rspan, cellElements) )
+        return row
+
+    def parseCellItem(self, cellItem):
+        # search and remove cspan, rspan colspec from the first element in
+        # this listItem (field).
+        cspan = rspan = 0
+        if not len(cellItem):
+            return cspan, rspan, []
+        for elem in cellItem[0]:
+            if isinstance(elem, colSpan):
+                cspan = elem.get("span")
+                elem.parent.remove(elem)
+                continue
+            if isinstance(elem, rowSpan):
+                rspan = elem.get("span")
+                elem.parent.remove(elem)
+                continue
+        return cspan, rspan, cellItem[:]
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt b/Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..909a73065e0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Convert a template file into something like RST
+#
+# fix <function>
+# feed to pandoc
+# fix \_
+# title line?
+#
+
+in=$1
+rst=$2
+tmp=$rst.tmp
+
+cp $in $tmp
+sed --in-place -f convert_template.sed $tmp
+pandoc -s -S -f docbook -t rst -o $rst $tmp
+sed --in-place -f post_convert.sed $rst
+rm $tmp
diff --git a/Documentation/sync_file.txt b/Documentation/sync_file.txt
index eaf8297dbca2..e8e2ebafe5fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/sync_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sync_file.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 This document serves as a guide for device drivers writers on what the
 sync_file API is, and how drivers can support it. Sync file is the carrier of
-the fences(struct fence) that needs to synchronized between drivers or across
-process boundaries.
+the fences(struct fence) that are needed to synchronize between drivers or
+across process boundaries.
 
 The sync_file API is meant to be used to send and receive fence information
 to/from userspace. It enables userspace to do explicit fencing, where instead
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ in-fences and out-fences
 Sync files can go either to or from userspace. When a sync_file is sent from
 the driver to userspace we call the fences it contains 'out-fences'. They are
 related to a buffer that the driver is processing or is going to process, so
-the driver an create out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
+the driver creates an out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
 when it has finished using (or processing) that buffer. Out-fences are fences
 that the driver creates.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 720355cbdf45..95ccbe6d79ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
 - swappiness
 - user_reserve_kbytes
 - vfs_cache_pressure
+- watermark_scale_factor
 - zone_reclaim_mode
 
 ==============================================================
diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt b/Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt
index 332de4a39b5a..60073dc9f748 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ time is considered largely as a non-causal system where its behavior
 cannot be based on the past or current input. Therefore, the
 intel_powerclamp driver attempts to enforce the desired idle time
 instantly as given input (target idle ratio). After injection,
-powerclamp moniors the actual idle for a given time window and adjust
+powerclamp monitors the actual idle for a given time window and adjust
 the next injection accordingly to avoid over/under correction.
 
 When used in a causal control system, such as a temperature control,
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt
index 5faf514047e9..b3146dd7aa43 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ configuration with CDC ECM which should work better under Linux.
 
 ** Windows host drivers
 
-For the gadget two work under Windows two conditions have to be met:
+For the gadget to work under Windows two conditions have to be met:
 
 *** Detecting as composite gadget
 
diff --git a/Documentation/workqueue.txt b/Documentation/workqueue.txt
index 5e0e05c5183e..c49e3178178d 100644
--- a/Documentation/workqueue.txt
+++ b/Documentation/workqueue.txt
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ resources, scheduled and executed.
   WQ_UNBOUND
 
 	Work items queued to an unbound wq are served by the special
-	woker-pools which host workers which are not bound to any
+	worker-pools which host workers which are not bound to any
 	specific CPU.  This makes the wq behave as a simple execution
 	context provider without concurrency management.  The unbound
 	worker-pools try to start execution of work items as soon as
diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle b/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle
index 654afd72eb24..12717791baac 100644
--- a/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle
@@ -24,34 +24,33 @@ Documentation/CodingStyle的中文翻译
 
 		Linux内核代码风格
 
-这是一个简短的文档，描述了linux内核的首选代码风格。代码风格是因人而异的，而且我
-不愿意把我的观点强加给任何人，不过这里所讲述的是我必须要维护的代码所遵守的风格，
-并且我也希望绝大多数其他代码也能遵守这个风格。请在写代码时至少考虑一下本文所述的
-风格。
+这是一个简短的文档，描述了 linux 内核的首选代码风格。代码风格是因人而异的，而且我
+不愿意把自己的观点强加给任何人，但这就像我去做任何事情都必须遵循的原则那样，我也
+希望在绝大多数事上保持这种的态度。请（在写代码时）至少考虑一下这里的代码风格。
 
-首先，我建议你打印一份GNU代码规范，然后不要读它。烧了它，这是一个具有重大象征性
-意义的动作。
+首先，我建议你打印一份 GNU 代码规范，然后不要读。烧了它，这是一个具有重大象征性意义
+的动作。
 
 不管怎样，现在我们开始：
 
 
-	 	第一章：缩进
+		第一章：缩进
 
-制表符是8个字符，所以缩进也是8个字符。有些异端运动试图将缩进变为4（乃至2）个字符
-深，这几乎相当于尝试将圆周率的值定义为3。
+制表符是 8 个字符，所以缩进也是 8 个字符。有些异端运动试图将缩进变为 4（甚至 2！）
+个字符深，这几乎相当于尝试将圆周率的值定义为 3。
 
 理由：缩进的全部意义就在于清楚的定义一个控制块起止于何处。尤其是当你盯着你的屏幕
-连续看了20小时之后，你将会发现大一点的缩进会使你更容易分辨缩进。
+连续看了 20 小时之后，你将会发现大一点的缩进会使你更容易分辨缩进。
 
-现在，有些人会抱怨8个字符的缩进会使代码向右边移动的太远，在80个字符的终端屏幕上
-就很难读这样的代码。这个问题的答案是，如果你需要3级以上的缩进，不管用何种方式你
+现在，有些人会抱怨 8 个字符的缩进会使代码向右边移动的太远，在 80 个字符的终端屏幕上
+就很难读这样的代码。这个问题的答案是，如果你需要 3 级以上的缩进，不管用何种方式你
 的代码已经有问题了，应该修正你的程序。
 
-简而言之，8个字符的缩进可以让代码更容易阅读，还有一个好处是当你的函数嵌套太深的
+简而言之，8 个字符的缩进可以让代码更容易阅读，还有一个好处是当你的函数嵌套太深的
 时候可以给你警告。留心这个警告。
 
-在switch语句中消除多级缩进的首选的方式是让“switch”和从属于它的“case”标签对齐于同
-一列，而不要“两次缩进”“case”标签。比如：
+在 switch 语句中消除多级缩进的首选的方式是让 “switch” 和从属于它的 “case” 标签
+对齐于同一列，而不要 “两次缩进” “case” 标签。比如：
 
 	switch (suffix) {
 	case 'G':
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ Documentation/CodingStyle的中文翻译
 		break;
 	}
 
-
 不要把多个语句放在一行里，除非你有什么东西要隐藏：
 
 	if (condition) do_this;
@@ -79,7 +77,7 @@ Documentation/CodingStyle的中文翻译
 也不要在一行里放多个赋值语句。内核代码风格超级简单。就是避免可能导致别人误读的表
 达式。
 
-除了注释、文档和Kconfig之外，不要使用空格来缩进，前面的例子是例外，是有意为之。
+除了注释、文档和 Kconfig 之外，不要使用空格来缩进，前面的例子是例外，是有意为之。
 
 选用一个好的编辑器，不要在行尾留空格。
 
@@ -88,27 +86,18 @@ Documentation/CodingStyle的中文翻译
 
 代码风格的意义就在于使用平常使用的工具来维持代码的可读性和可维护性。
 
-每一行的长度的限制是80列，我们强烈建议您遵守这个惯例。
+每一行的长度的限制是 80 列，我们强烈建议您遵守这个惯例。
 
-长于80列的语句要打散成有意义的片段。每个片段要明显短于原来的语句，而且放置的位置
-也明显的靠右。同样的规则也适用于有很长参数列表的函数头。长字符串也要打散成较短的
-字符串。唯一的例外是超过80列可以大幅度提高可读性并且不会隐藏信息的情况。
-
-void fun(int a, int b, int c)
-{
-	if (condition)
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning this is a long printk with "
-						"3 parameters a: %u b: %u "
-						"c: %u \n", a, b, c);
-	else
-		next_statement;
-}
+长于 80 列的语句要打散成有意义的片段。除非超过 80 列能显著增加可读性，并且不会隐藏
+信息。子片段要明显短于母片段，并明显靠右。这同样适用于有着很长参数列表的函数头。
+然而，绝对不要打散对用户可见的字符串，例如 printk 信息，因为这将导致无法 grep 这些
+信息。
 
 		第三章：大括号和空格的放置
 
 C语言风格中另外一个常见问题是大括号的放置。和缩进大小不同，选择或弃用某种放置策
-略并没有多少技术上的原因，不过首选的方式，就像Kernighan和Ritchie展示给我们的，是
-把起始大括号放在行尾，而把结束大括号放在行首，所以：
+略并没有多少技术上的原因，不过首选的方式，就像 Kernighan 和 Ritchie 展示给我们的，
+是把起始大括号放在行尾，而把结束大括号放在行首，所以：
 
 	if (x is true) {
 		we do y
@@ -134,12 +123,12 @@ C语言风格中另外一个常见问题是大括号的放置。和缩进大小�
 		body of function
 	}
 
-全世界的异端可能会抱怨这个不一致性是……呃……不一致的，不过所有思维健全的人都知道（
-a）K&R是_正确的_，并且（b）K&R是正确的。此外，不管怎样函数都是特殊的（在C语言中
-，函数是不能嵌套的）。
+全世界的异端可能会抱怨这个不一致性是……呃……不一致的，不过所有思维健全的人都知道
+(a) K&R 是 _正确的_，并且 (b) K&R 是正确的。此外，不管怎样函数都是特殊的（C
+函数是不能嵌套的）。
 
-注意结束大括号独自占据一行，除非它后面跟着同一个语句的剩余部分，也就是do语句中的
-“while”或者if语句中的“else”，像这样：
+注意结束大括号独自占据一行，除非它后面跟着同一个语句的剩余部分，也就是 do 语句中的
+“while” 或者 if 语句中的 “else”，像这样：
 
 	do {
 		body of do-loop
@@ -158,41 +147,50 @@ a）K&R是_正确的_，并且（b）K&R是正确的。此外，不管怎样函�
 理由：K&R。
 
 也请注意这种大括号的放置方式也能使空（或者差不多空的）行的数量最小化，同时不失可
-读性。因此，由于你的屏幕上的新行是不可再生资源（想想25行的终端屏幕），你将会有更
+读性。因此，由于你的屏幕上的新行是不可再生资源（想想 25 行的终端屏幕），你将会有更
 多的空行来放置注释。
 
 当只有一个单独的语句的时候，不用加不必要的大括号。
 
-if (condition)
-	action();
+	if (condition)
+		action();
+
+和
+
+	if (condition)
+		do_this();
+	else
+		do_that();
 
-这点不适用于本身为某个条件语句的一个分支的单独语句。这时需要在两个分支里都使用大
-括号。
+这并不适用于只有一个条件分支是单语句的情况；这时所有分支都要使用大括号：
 
-if (condition) {
-	do_this();
-	do_that();
-} else {
-	otherwise();
-}
+	if (condition) {
+		do_this();
+		do_that();
+	} else {
+		otherwise();
+	}
 
 		3.1：空格
 
-Linux内核的空格使用方式（主要）取决于它是用于函数还是关键字。（大多数）关键字后
-要加一个空格。值得注意的例外是sizeof、typeof、alignof和__attribute__，这些关键字
-某些程度上看起来更像函数（它们在Linux里也常常伴随小括号而使用，尽管在C语言里这样
-的小括号不是必需的，就像“struct fileinfo info”声明过后的“sizeof info”）。
+Linux 内核的空格使用方式（主要）取决于它是用于函数还是关键字。（大多数）关键字后
+要加一个空格。值得注意的例外是 sizeof、typeof、alignof 和 __attribute__，这些
+关键字某些程度上看起来更像函数（它们在 Linux 里也常常伴随小括号而使用，尽管在 C 里
+这样的小括号不是必需的，就像 “struct fileinfo info” 声明过后的 “sizeof info”）。
 
 所以在这些关键字之后放一个空格：
+
 	if, switch, case, for, do, while
-但是不要在sizeof、typeof、alignof或者__attribute__这些关键字之后放空格。例如，
+
+但是不要在 sizeof、typeof、alignof 或者 __attribute__ 这些关键字之后放空格。例如，
+
 	s = sizeof(struct file);
 
 不要在小括号里的表达式两侧加空格。这是一个反例：
 
 	s = sizeof( struct file );
 
-当声明指针类型或者返回指针类型的函数时，“*”的首选使用方式是使之靠近变量名或者函
+当声明指针类型或者返回指针类型的函数时，“*” 的首选使用方式是使之靠近变量名或者函
 数名，而不是靠近类型名。例子：
 
 	char *linux_banner;
@@ -204,15 +202,18 @@ Linux内核的空格使用方式（主要）取决于它是用于函数还是关
 	=  +  -  <  >  *  /  %  |  &  ^  <=  >=  ==  !=  ?  :
 
 但是一元操作符后不要加空格：
+
 	&  *  +  -  ~  !  sizeof  typeof  alignof  __attribute__  defined
 
 后缀自加和自减一元操作符前不加空格：
+
 	++  --
 
 前缀自加和自减一元操作符后不加空格：
+
 	++  --
 
-“.”和“->”结构体成员操作符前后不加空格。
+‘.’ 和 “->” 结构体成员操作符前后不加空格。
 
 不要在行尾留空白。有些可以自动缩进的编辑器会在新行的行首加入适量的空白，然后你
 就可以直接在那一行输入代码。不过假如你最后没有在那一行输入代码，有些编辑器就不
@@ -225,23 +226,23 @@ Linux内核的空格使用方式（主要）取决于它是用于函数还是关
 
 		第四章：命名
 
-C是一个简朴的语言，你的命名也应该这样。和Modula-2和Pascal程序员不同，C程序员不使
-用类似ThisVariableIsATemporaryCounter这样华丽的名字。C程序员会称那个变量为“tmp”
-，这样写起来会更容易，而且至少不会令其难于理解。
+C是一个简朴的语言，你的命名也应该这样。和 Modula-2 和 Pascal 程序员不同，C 程序员
+不使用类似 ThisVariableIsATemporaryCounter 这样华丽的名字。C 程序员会称那个变量
+为 “tmp”，这样写起来会更容易，而且至少不会令其难于理解。
 
 不过，虽然混用大小写的名字是不提倡使用的，但是全局变量还是需要一个具描述性的名字
-。称一个全局函数为“foo”是一个难以饶恕的错误。
+。称一个全局函数为 “foo” 是一个难以饶恕的错误。
 
 全局变量（只有当你真正需要它们的时候再用它）需要有一个具描述性的名字，就像全局函
-数。如果你有一个可以计算活动用户数量的函数，你应该叫它“count_active_users()”或者
-类似的名字，你不应该叫它“cntuser()”。
+数。如果你有一个可以计算活动用户数量的函数，你应该叫它 “count_active_users()”
+或者类似的名字，你不应该叫它 “cntuser()”。
 
 在函数名中包含函数类型（所谓的匈牙利命名法）是脑子出了问题——编译器知道那些类型而
 且能够检查那些类型，这样做只能把程序员弄糊涂了。难怪微软总是制造出有问题的程序。
 
 本地变量名应该简短，而且能够表达相关的含义。如果你有一些随机的整数型的循环计数器
-，它应该被称为“i”。叫它“loop_counter”并无益处，如果它没有被误解的可能的话。类似
-的，“tmp”可以用来称呼任意类型的临时变量。
+，它应该被称为 “i”。叫它 “loop_counter” 并无益处，如果它没有被误解的可能的话。
+类似的，“tmp” 可以用来称呼任意类型的临时变量。
 
 如果你怕混淆了你的本地变量名，你就遇到另一个问题了，叫做函数增长荷尔蒙失衡综合症
 。请看第六章（函数）。
@@ -249,9 +250,9 @@ C是一个简朴的语言，你的命名也应该这样。和Modula-2和Pascal�
 
 		第五章：Typedef
 
-不要使用类似“vps_t”之类的东西。
+不要使用类似 “vps_t” 之类的东西。
 
-对结构体和指针使用typedef是一个错误。当你在代码里看到：
+对结构体和指针使用 typedef 是一个错误。当你在代码里看到：
 
 	vps_t a;
 
@@ -261,91 +262,91 @@ C是一个简朴的语言，你的命名也应该这样。和Modula-2和Pascal�
 
 	struct virtual_container *a;
 
-你就知道“a”是什么了。
+你就知道 “a” 是什么了。
 
-很多人认为typedef“能提高可读性”。实际不是这样的。它们只在下列情况下有用：
+很多人认为 typedef “能提高可读性”。实际不是这样的。它们只在下列情况下有用：
 
- (a) 完全不透明的对象（这种情况下要主动使用typedef来隐藏这个对象实际上是什么）。
+ (a) 完全不透明的对象（这种情况下要主动使用 typedef 来隐藏这个对象实际上是什么）。
 
-     例如：“pte_t”等不透明对象，你只能用合适的访问函数来访问它们。
+     例如：“pte_t” 等不透明对象，你只能用合适的访问函数来访问它们。
 
-     注意！不透明性和“访问函数”本身是不好的。我们使用pte_t等类型的原因在于真的是
+     注意！不透明性和“访问函数”本身是不好的。我们使用 pte_t 等类型的原因在于真的是
      完全没有任何共用的可访问信息。
 
- (b) 清楚的整数类型，如此，这层抽象就可以帮助消除到底是“int”还是“long”的混淆。
+ (b) 清楚的整数类型，如此，这层抽象就可以帮助消除到底是 “int” 还是 “long” 的混淆。
 
-     u8/u16/u32是完全没有问题的typedef，不过它们更符合类别(d)而不是这里。
+     u8/u16/u32 是完全没有问题的 typedef，不过它们更符合类别 (d) 而不是这里。
 
-     再次注意！要这样做，必须事出有因。如果某个变量是“unsigned long“，那么没有必要
+     再次注意！要这样做，必须事出有因。如果某个变量是 “unsigned long“，那么没有必要
 
 	typedef unsigned long myflags_t;
 
-     不过如果有一个明确的原因，比如它在某种情况下可能会是一个“unsigned int”而在
-     其他情况下可能为“unsigned long”，那么就不要犹豫，请务必使用typedef。
+     不过如果有一个明确的原因，比如它在某种情况下可能会是一个 “unsigned int” 而在
+     其他情况下可能为 “unsigned long”，那么就不要犹豫，请务必使用 typedef。
 
  (c) 当你使用sparse按字面的创建一个新类型来做类型检查的时候。
 
  (d) 和标准C99类型相同的类型，在某些例外的情况下。
 
-     虽然让眼睛和脑筋来适应新的标准类型比如“uint32_t”不需要花很多时间，可是有些
+     虽然让眼睛和脑筋来适应新的标准类型比如 “uint32_t” 不需要花很多时间，可是有些
      人仍然拒绝使用它们。
 
-     因此，Linux特有的等同于标准类型的“u8/u16/u32/u64”类型和它们的有符号类型是被
+     因此，Linux 特有的等同于标准类型的 “u8/u16/u32/u64” 类型和它们的有符号类型是被
      允许的——尽管在你自己的新代码中，它们不是强制要求要使用的。
 
      当编辑已经使用了某个类型集的已有代码时，你应该遵循那些代码中已经做出的选择。
 
  (e) 可以在用户空间安全使用的类型。
 
-     在某些用户空间可见的结构体里，我们不能要求C99类型而且不能用上面提到的“u32”
-     类型。因此，我们在与用户空间共享的所有结构体中使用__u32和类似的类型。
+     在某些用户空间可见的结构体里，我们不能要求C99类型而且不能用上面提到的 “u32”
+     类型。因此，我们在与用户空间共享的所有结构体中使用 __u32 和类似的类型。
 
-可能还有其他的情况，不过基本的规则是永远不要使用typedef，除非你可以明确的应用上
+可能还有其他的情况，不过基本的规则是永远不要使用 typedef，除非你可以明确的应用上
 述某个规则中的一个。
 
 总的来说，如果一个指针或者一个结构体里的元素可以合理的被直接访问到，那么它们就不
-应该是一个typedef。
+应该是一个 typedef。
 
 
 		第六章：函数
 
 函数应该简短而漂亮，并且只完成一件事情。函数应该可以一屏或者两屏显示完（我们都知
-道ISO/ANSI屏幕大小是80x24），只做一件事情，而且把它做好。
+道 ISO/ANSI 屏幕大小是 80x24），只做一件事情，而且把它做好。
 
 一个函数的最大长度是和该函数的复杂度和缩进级数成反比的。所以，如果你有一个理论上
-很简单的只有一个很长（但是简单）的case语句的函数，而且你需要在每个case里做很多很
-小的事情，这样的函数尽管很长，但也是可以的。
+很简单的只有一个很长（但是简单）的 case 语句的函数，而且你需要在每个 case 里做
+很多很小的事情，这样的函数尽管很长，但也是可以的。
 
 不过，如果你有一个复杂的函数，而且你怀疑一个天分不是很高的高中一年级学生可能甚至
 搞不清楚这个函数的目的，你应该严格的遵守前面提到的长度限制。使用辅助函数，并为之
 取个具描述性的名字（如果你觉得它们的性能很重要的话，可以让编译器内联它们，这样的
 效果往往会比你写一个复杂函数的效果要好。）
 
-函数的另外一个衡量标准是本地变量的数量。此数量不应超过5－10个，否则你的函数就有
+函数的另外一个衡量标准是本地变量的数量。此数量不应超过 5－10 个，否则你的函数就有
 问题了。重新考虑一下你的函数，把它分拆成更小的函数。人的大脑一般可以轻松的同时跟
-踪7个不同的事物，如果再增多的话，就会糊涂了。即便你聪颖过人，你也可能会记不清你2
-个星期前做过的事情。
+踪 7 个不同的事物，如果再增多的话，就会糊涂了。即便你聪颖过人，你也可能会记不清你
+2 个星期前做过的事情。
 
-在源文件里，使用空行隔开不同的函数。如果该函数需要被导出，它的EXPORT*宏应该紧贴
+在源文件里，使用空行隔开不同的函数。如果该函数需要被导出，它的 EXPORT* 宏应该紧贴
 在它的结束大括号之下。比如：
 
-int system_is_up(void)
-{
-	return system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_is_up);
+	int system_is_up(void)
+	{
+		return system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING;
+	}
+	EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_is_up);
 
-在函数原型中，包含函数名和它们的数据类型。虽然C语言里没有这样的要求，在Linux里这
+在函数原型中，包含函数名和它们的数据类型。虽然C语言里没有这样的要求，在 Linux 里这
 是提倡的做法，因为这样可以很简单的给读者提供更多的有价值的信息。
 
 
 		第七章：集中的函数退出途径
 
-虽然被某些人声称已经过时，但是goto语句的等价物还是经常被编译器所使用，具体形式是
+虽然被某些人声称已经过时，但是 goto 语句的等价物还是经常被编译器所使用，具体形式是
 无条件跳转指令。
 
-当一个函数从多个位置退出并且需要做一些通用的清理工作的时候，goto的好处就显现出来
-了。
+当一个函数从多个位置退出，并且需要做一些类似清理的常见操作时，goto 语句就很方便了。
+如果并不需要清理操作，那么直接 return 即可。
 
 理由是：
 
@@ -354,26 +355,37 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_is_up);
 - 可以避免由于修改时忘记更新某个单独的退出点而导致的错误
 - 减轻了编译器的工作，无需删除冗余代码;)
 
-int fun(int a)
-{
-	int result = 0;
-	char *buffer = kmalloc(SIZE);
-
-	if (buffer == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	if (condition1) {
-		while (loop1) {
-			...
+	int fun(int a)
+	{
+		int result = 0;
+		char *buffer;
+
+		buffer = kmalloc(SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!buffer)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		if (condition1) {
+			while (loop1) {
+				...
+			}
+			result = 1;
+			goto out_buffer;
 		}
-		result = 1;
-		goto out;
+		...
+	out_buffer:
+		kfree(buffer);
+		return result;
 	}
-	...
-out:
-	kfree(buffer);
-	return result;
-}
+
+一个需要注意的常见错误是“一个 err 错误”，就像这样：
+
+	err:
+		kfree(foo->bar);
+		kfree(foo);
+		return ret;
+
+这段代码的错误是，在某些退出路径上 “foo” 是 NULL。通常情况下，通过把它分离成两个
+错误标签 “err_bar:” 和 “err_foo:” 来修复这个错误。
 
 		第八章：注释
 
@@ -386,10 +398,10 @@ out:
 加太多。你应该做的，是把注释放在函数的头部，告诉人们它做了什么，也可以加上它做这
 些事情的原因。
 
-当注释内核API函数时，请使用kernel-doc格式。请看
-Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt和scripts/kernel-doc以获得详细信息。
+当注释内核API函数时，请使用 kernel-doc 格式。请看
+Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst和scripts/kernel-doc 以获得详细信息。
 
-Linux的注释风格是C89“/* ... */”风格。不要使用C99风格“// ...”注释。
+Linux的注释风格是 C89 “/* ... */” 风格。不要使用 C99 风格 “// ...” 注释。
 
 长（多行）的首选注释风格是：
 
@@ -402,6 +414,15 @@ Linux的注释风格是C89“/* ... */”风格。不要使用C99风格“// ...
 	 * with beginning and ending almost-blank lines.
 	 */
 
+对于在 net/ 和 drivers/net/ 的文件，首选的长（多行）注释风格有些不同。
+
+	/* The preferred comment style for files in net/ and drivers/net
+	 * looks like this.
+	 *
+	 * It is nearly the same as the generally preferred comment style,
+	 * but there is no initial almost-blank line.
+	 */
+
 注释数据也是很重要的，不管是基本类型还是衍生类型。为了方便实现这一点，每一行应只
 声明一个数据（不要使用逗号来一次声明多个数据）。这样你就有空间来为每个数据写一段
 小注释来解释它们的用途了。
@@ -409,49 +430,63 @@ Linux的注释风格是C89“/* ... */”风格。不要使用C99风格“// ...
 
 		第九章：你已经把事情弄糟了
 
-这没什么，我们都是这样。可能你的使用了很长时间Unix的朋友已经告诉你“GNU emacs”能
-自动帮你格式化C源代码，而且你也注意到了，确实是这样，不过它所使用的默认值和我们
-想要的相去甚远（实际上，甚至比随机打的还要差——无数个猴子在GNU emacs里打字永远不
-会创造出一个好程序）（译注：请参考Infinite Monkey Theorem）
-
-所以你要么放弃GNU emacs，要么改变它让它使用更合理的设定。要采用后一个方案，你可
-以把下面这段粘贴到你的.emacs文件里。
-
-(defun linux-c-mode ()
-  "C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Linux kernel."
-  (interactive)
-  (c-mode)
-  (c-set-style "K&R")
-  (setq tab-width 8)
-  (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
-  (setq c-basic-offset 8))
-
-这样就定义了M-x linux-c-mode命令。当你hack一个模块的时候，如果你把字符串
--*- linux-c -*-放在头两行的某个位置，这个模式将会被自动调用。如果你希望在你修改
-/usr/src/linux里的文件时魔术般自动打开linux-c-mode的话，你也可能需要添加
-
-(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("/usr/src/linux.*/.*\\.[ch]$" . linux-c-mode)
-			auto-mode-alist))
-
-到你的.emacs文件里。
-
-不过就算你尝试让emacs正确的格式化代码失败了，也并不意味着你失去了一切：还可以用“
-indent”。
-
-不过，GNU indent也有和GNU emacs一样有问题的设定，所以你需要给它一些命令选项。不
-过，这还不算太糟糕，因为就算是GNU indent的作者也认同K&R的权威性（GNU的人并不是坏
-人，他们只是在这个问题上被严重的误导了），所以你只要给indent指定选项“-kr -i8”
-（代表“K&R，8个字符缩进”），或者使用“scripts/Lindent”，这样就可以以最时髦的方式
+这没什么，我们都是这样。可能你的使用了很长时间 Unix 的朋友已经告诉你 “GNU emacs” 能
+自动帮你格式化 C 源代码，而且你也注意到了，确实是这样，不过它所使用的默认值和我们
+想要的相去甚远（实际上，甚至比随机打的还要差——无数个猴子在 GNU emacs 里打字永远不
+会创造出一个好程序）（译注：请参考 Infinite Monkey Theorem）
+
+所以你要么放弃 GNU emacs，要么改变它让它使用更合理的设定。要采用后一个方案，你可
+以把下面这段粘贴到你的 .emacs 文件里。
+
+(defun c-lineup-arglist-tabs-only (ignored)
+  "Line up argument lists by tabs, not spaces"
+  (let* ((anchor (c-langelem-pos c-syntactic-element))
+         (column (c-langelem-2nd-pos c-syntactic-element))
+         (offset (- (1+ column) anchor))
+         (steps (floor offset c-basic-offset)))
+    (* (max steps 1)
+       c-basic-offset)))
+
+(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
+          (lambda ()
+            ;; Add kernel style
+            (c-add-style
+             "linux-tabs-only"
+             '("linux" (c-offsets-alist
+                        (arglist-cont-nonempty
+                         c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg
+                         c-lineup-arglist-tabs-only))))))
+
+(add-hook 'c-mode-hook
+          (lambda ()
+            (let ((filename (buffer-file-name)))
+              ;; Enable kernel mode for the appropriate files
+              (when (and filename
+                         (string-match (expand-file-name "~/src/linux-trees")
+                                       filename))
+                (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
+                (setq show-trailing-whitespace t)
+                (c-set-style "linux-tabs-only")))))
+
+这会让 emacs 在 ~/src/linux-trees 目录下的 C 源文件获得更好的内核代码风格。
+
+不过就算你尝试让 emacs 正确的格式化代码失败了，也并不意味着你失去了一切：还可以用
+“indent”。
+
+不过，GNU indent 也有和 GNU emacs 一样有问题的设定，所以你需要给它一些命令选项。不
+过，这还不算太糟糕，因为就算是 GNU indent 的作者也认同 K&R 的权威性（GNU 的人并不是
+坏人，他们只是在这个问题上被严重的误导了），所以你只要给 indent 指定选项 “-kr -i8”
+（代表 “K&R，8 个字符缩进”），或者使用 “scripts/Lindent”，这样就可以以最时髦的方式
 缩进源代码。
 
-“indent”有很多选项，特别是重新格式化注释的时候，你可能需要看一下它的手册页。不过
-记住：“indent”不能修正坏的编程习惯。
+“indent” 有很多选项，特别是重新格式化注释的时候，你可能需要看一下它的手册页。不过
+记住：“indent” 不能修正坏的编程习惯。
 
 
-		第十章：Kconfig配置文件
+		第十章：Kconfig 配置文件
 
-对于遍布源码树的所有Kconfig*配置文件来说，它们缩进方式与C代码相比有所不同。紧挨
-在“config”定义下面的行缩进一个制表符，帮助信息则再多缩进2个空格。比如：
+对于遍布源码树的所有 Kconfig* 配置文件来说，它们缩进方式与 C 代码相比有所不同。紧挨
+在 “config” 定义下面的行缩进一个制表符，帮助信息则再多缩进 2 个空格。比如：
 
 config AUDIT
 	bool "Auditing support"
@@ -470,7 +505,7 @@ config ADFS_FS_RW
 	depends on ADFS_FS
 	...
 
-要查看配置文件的完整文档，请看Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt。
+要查看配置文件的完整文档，请看 Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt。
 
 
 		第十一章：数据结构
@@ -489,11 +524,11 @@ config ADFS_FS_RW
 很多数据结构实际上有2级引用计数，它们通常有不同“类”的用户。子类计数器统计子类用
 户的数量，每当子类计数器减至零时，全局计数器减一。
 
-这种“多级引用计数”的例子可以在内存管理（“struct mm_struct”：mm_users和mm_count）
+这种“多级引用计数”的例子可以在内存管理（“struct mm_struct”：mm_users 和 mm_count）
 和文件系统（“struct super_block”：s_count和s_active）中找到。
 
 记住：如果另一个执行线索可以找到你的数据结构，但是这个数据结构没有引用计数器，这
-里几乎肯定是一个bug。
+里几乎肯定是一个 bug。
 
 
 		第十二章：宏，枚举和RTL
@@ -508,102 +543,128 @@ config ADFS_FS_RW
 
 一般的，如果能写成内联函数就不要写成像函数的宏。
 
-含有多个语句的宏应该被包含在一个do-while代码块里：
+含有多个语句的宏应该被包含在一个 do-while 代码块里：
 
-#define macrofun(a, b, c) 			\
-	do {					\
-		if (a == 5)			\
-			do_this(b, c);		\
-	} while (0)
+	#define macrofun(a, b, c)			\
+		do {					\
+			if (a == 5)			\
+				do_this(b, c);		\
+		} while (0)
 
 使用宏的时候应避免的事情：
 
 1) 影响控制流程的宏：
 
-#define FOO(x)					\
-	do {					\
-		if (blah(x) < 0)		\
-			return -EBUGGERED;	\
-	} while(0)
+	#define FOO(x)					\
+		do {					\
+			if (blah(x) < 0)		\
+				return -EBUGGERED;	\
+		} while (0)
 
 非常不好。它看起来像一个函数，不过却能导致“调用”它的函数退出；不要打乱读者大脑里
 的语法分析器。
 
 2) 依赖于一个固定名字的本地变量的宏：
 
-#define FOO(val) bar(index, val)
+	#define FOO(val) bar(index, val)
 
 可能看起来像是个不错的东西，不过它非常容易把读代码的人搞糊涂，而且容易导致看起来
 不相关的改动带来错误。
 
-3) 作为左值的带参数的宏： FOO(x) = y；如果有人把FOO变成一个内联函数的话，这种用
+3) 作为左值的带参数的宏： FOO(x) = y；如果有人把 FOO 变成一个内联函数的话，这种用
 法就会出错了。
 
 4) 忘记了优先级：使用表达式定义常量的宏必须将表达式置于一对小括号之内。带参数的
 宏也要注意此类问题。
 
-#define CONSTANT 0x4000
-#define CONSTEXP (CONSTANT | 3)
+	#define CONSTANT 0x4000
+	#define CONSTEXP (CONSTANT | 3)
+
+5) 在宏里定义类似函数的本地变量时命名冲突：
 
-cpp手册对宏的讲解很详细。Gcc internals手册也详细讲解了RTL（译注：register
+	#define FOO(x)				\
+	({					\
+		typeof(x) ret;			\
+		ret = calc_ret(x);		\
+		(ret);				\
+	})
+
+ret 是本地变量的通用名字 - __foo_ret 更不容易与一个已存在的变量冲突。
+
+cpp 手册对宏的讲解很详细。gcc internals 手册也详细讲解了 RTL（译注：register
 transfer language），内核里的汇编语言经常用到它。
 
 
 		第十三章：打印内核消息
 
 内核开发者应该是受过良好教育的。请一定注意内核信息的拼写，以给人以好的印象。不要
-用不规范的单词比如“dont”，而要用“do not”或者“don't”。保证这些信息简单、明了、无
-歧义。
+用不规范的单词比如 “dont”，而要用 “do not”或者 “don't”。保证这些信息简单、明了、
+无歧义。
 
 内核信息不必以句号（译注：英文句号，即点）结束。
 
-在小括号里打印数字(%d)没有任何价值，应该避免这样做。
+在小括号里打印数字 (%d) 没有任何价值，应该避免这样做。
 
-<linux/device.h>里有一些驱动模型诊断宏，你应该使用它们，以确保信息对应于正确的
-设备和驱动，并且被标记了正确的消息级别。这些宏有：dev_err(), dev_warn(),
-dev_info()等等。对于那些不和某个特定设备相关连的信息，<linux/kernel.h>定义了
-pr_debug()和pr_info()。
+<linux/device.h> 里有一些驱动模型诊断宏，你应该使用它们，以确保信息对应于正确的
+设备和驱动，并且被标记了正确的消息级别。这些宏有：dev_err()，dev_warn()，
+dev_info() 等等。对于那些不和某个特定设备相关连的信息，<linux/printk.h> 定义了
+pr_notice()，pr_info()，pr_warn()，pr_err() 和其他。
 
-写出好的调试信息可以是一个很大的挑战；当你写出来之后，这些信息在远程除错的时候
-就会成为极大的帮助。当DEBUG符号没有被定义的时候，这些信息不应该被编译进内核里
-（也就是说，默认地，它们不应该被包含在内）。如果你使用dev_dbg()或者pr_debug()，
-就能自动达到这个效果。很多子系统拥有Kconfig选项来启用-DDEBUG。还有一个相关的惯例
-是使用VERBOSE_DEBUG来添加dev_vdbg()消息到那些已经由DEBUG启用的消息之上。
+写出好的调试信息可以是一个很大的挑战；一旦你写出后，这些信息在远程除错时能提供极大
+的帮助。然而打印调试信息的处理方式同打印非调试信息不同。其他 pr_XXX() 函数能无条件地
+打印，pr_debug() 却不；默认情况下它不会被编译，除非定义了 DEBUG 或设定了
+CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG。实际这同样是为了 dev_dbg()，一个相关约定是在一个已经开启了
+DEBUG 时，使用 VERBOSE_DEBUG 来添加 dev_vdbg()。
+
+许多子系统拥有 Kconfig 调试选项来开启 -DDEBUG 在对应的 Makefile 里面；在其他
+情况下，特殊文件使用 #define DEBUG。当一条调试信息需要被无条件打印时，例如，如果
+已经包含一个调试相关的 #ifdef 条件，printk(KERN_DEBUG ...) 就可被使用。
 
 
 		第十四章：分配内存
 
-内核提供了下面的一般用途的内存分配函数：kmalloc()，kzalloc()，kcalloc()和
-vmalloc()。请参考API文档以获取有关它们的详细信息。
+内核提供了下面的一般用途的内存分配函数：
+kmalloc()，kzalloc()，kmalloc_array()，kcalloc()，vmalloc() 和 vzalloc()。
+请参考 API 文档以获取有关它们的详细信息。
 
 传递结构体大小的首选形式是这样的：
 
 	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
 
-另外一种传递方式中，sizeof的操作数是结构体的名字，这样会降低可读性，并且可能会引
-入bug。有可能指针变量类型被改变时，而对应的传递给内存分配函数的sizeof的结果不变。
+另外一种传递方式中，sizeof 的操作数是结构体的名字，这样会降低可读性，并且可能会引
+入 bug。有可能指针变量类型被改变时，而对应的传递给内存分配函数的 sizeof 的结果不变。
 
-强制转换一个void指针返回值是多余的。C语言本身保证了从void指针到其他任何指针类型
+强制转换一个 void 指针返回值是多余的。C 语言本身保证了从 void 指针到其他任何指针类型
 的转换是没有问题的。
 
+分配一个数组的首选形式是这样的：
+
+	p = kmalloc_array(n, sizeof(...), ...);
+
+分配一个零长数组的首选形式是这样的：
+
+	p = kcalloc(n, sizeof(...), ...);
+
+两种形式检查分配大小 n * sizeof(...) 的溢出，如果溢出返回 NULL。
+
 
 		第十五章：内联弊病
 
-有一个常见的误解是内联函数是gcc提供的可以让代码运行更快的一个选项。虽然使用内联
+有一个常见的误解是内联函数是 gcc 提供的可以让代码运行更快的一个选项。虽然使用内联
 函数有时候是恰当的（比如作为一种替代宏的方式，请看第十二章），不过很多情况下不是
-这样。inline关键字的过度使用会使内核变大，从而使整个系统运行速度变慢。因为大内核
+这样。inline 关键字的过度使用会使内核变大，从而使整个系统运行速度变慢。因为大内核
 会占用更多的指令高速缓存（译注：一级缓存通常是指令缓存和数据缓存分开的）而且会导
-致pagecache的可用内存减少。想象一下，一次pagecache未命中就会导致一次磁盘寻址，将
-耗时5毫秒。5毫秒的时间内CPU能执行很多很多指令。
+致 pagecache 的可用内存减少。想象一下，一次pagecache未命中就会导致一次磁盘寻址，
+将耗时 5 毫秒。5 毫秒的时间内 CPU 能执行很多很多指令。
 
-一个基本的原则是如果一个函数有3行以上，就不要把它变成内联函数。这个原则的一个例
+一个基本的原则是如果一个函数有 3 行以上，就不要把它变成内联函数。这个原则的一个例
 外是，如果你知道某个参数是一个编译时常量，而且因为这个常量你确定编译器在编译时能
-优化掉你的函数的大部分代码，那仍然可以给它加上inline关键字。kmalloc()内联函数就
+优化掉你的函数的大部分代码，那仍然可以给它加上 inline 关键字。kmalloc() 内联函数就
 是一个很好的例子。
 
-人们经常主张给static的而且只用了一次的函数加上inline，如此不会有任何损失，因为没
-有什么好权衡的。虽然从技术上说这是正确的，但是实际上这种情况下即使不加inline gcc
-也可以自动使其内联。而且其他用户可能会要求移除inline，由此而来的争论会抵消inline
+人们经常主张给 static 的而且只用了一次的函数加上 inline，如此不会有任何损失，因为没
+有什么好权衡的。虽然从技术上说这是正确的，但是实际上这种情况下即使不加 inline gcc
+也可以自动使其内联。而且其他用户可能会要求移除 inline，由此而来的争论会抵消 inline
 自身的潜在价值，得不偿失。
 
 
@@ -613,37 +674,37 @@ vmalloc()。请参考API文档以获取有关它们的详细信息。
 的一个值可以表示为一个错误代码整数（-Exxx＝失败，0＝成功）或者一个“成功”布尔值（
 0＝失败，非0＝成功）。
 
-混合使用这两种表达方式是难于发现的bug的来源。如果C语言本身严格区分整形和布尔型变
-量，那么编译器就能够帮我们发现这些错误……不过C语言不区分。为了避免产生这种bug，请
+混合使用这两种表达方式是难于发现的 bug 的来源。如果 C 语言本身严格区分整形和布尔型变
+量，那么编译器就能够帮我们发现这些错误……不过 C 语言不区分。为了避免产生这种 bug，请
 遵循下面的惯例：
 
 	如果函数的名字是一个动作或者强制性的命令，那么这个函数应该返回错误代码整
 	数。如果是一个判断，那么函数应该返回一个“成功”布尔值。
 
-比如，“add work”是一个命令，所以add_work()函数在成功时返回0，在失败时返回-EBUSY。
-类似的，因为“PCI device present”是一个判断，所以pci_dev_present()函数在成功找到
-一个匹配的设备时应该返回1，如果找不到时应该返回0。
+比如，“add work” 是一个命令，所以 add_work() 函数在成功时返回 0，在失败时返回 -EBUSY。
+类似的，因为 “PCI device present” 是一个判断，所以 pci_dev_present() 函数在成功找到
+一个匹配的设备时应该返回 1，如果找不到时应该返回 0。
 
 所有导出（译注：EXPORT）的函数都必须遵守这个惯例，所有的公共函数也都应该如此。私
 有（static）函数不需要如此，但是我们也推荐这样做。
 
 返回值是实际计算结果而不是计算是否成功的标志的函数不受此惯例的限制。一般的，他们
 通过返回一些正常值范围之外的结果来表示出错。典型的例子是返回指针的函数，他们使用
-NULL或者ERR_PTR机制来报告错误。
+NULL 或者 ERR_PTR 机制来报告错误。
 
 
 		第十七章：不要重新发明内核宏
 
-头文件include/linux/kernel.h包含了一些宏，你应该使用它们，而不要自己写一些它们的
+头文件 include/linux/kernel.h 包含了一些宏，你应该使用它们，而不要自己写一些它们的
 变种。比如，如果你需要计算一个数组的长度，使用这个宏
 
-  #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))
+	#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))
 
 类似的，如果你要计算某结构体成员的大小，使用
 
-  #define FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f) (sizeof(((t*)0)->f))
+	#define FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f) (sizeof(((t*)0)->f))
 
-还有可以做严格的类型检查的min()和max()宏，如果你需要可以使用它们。你可以自己看看
+还有可以做严格的类型检查的 min() 和 max() 宏，如果你需要可以使用它们。你可以自己看看
 那个头文件里还定义了什么你可以拿来用的东西，如果有定义的话，你就不应在你的代码里
 自己重新定义。
 
@@ -653,42 +714,100 @@ NULL或者ERR_PTR机制来报告错误。
 有一些编辑器可以解释嵌入在源文件里的由一些特殊标记标明的配置信息。比如，emacs
 能够解释被标记成这样的行：
 
--*- mode: c -*-
+	-*- mode: c -*-
 
 或者这样的：
 
-/*
-Local Variables:
-compile-command: "gcc -DMAGIC_DEBUG_FLAG foo.c"
-End:
-*/
+	/*
+	Local Variables:
+	compile-command: "gcc -DMAGIC_DEBUG_FLAG foo.c"
+	End:
+	*/
 
-Vim能够解释这样的标记：
+Vim 能够解释这样的标记：
 
-/* vim:set sw=8 noet */
+	/* vim:set sw=8 noet */
 
 不要在源代码中包含任何这样的内容。每个人都有他自己的编辑器配置，你的源文件不应
 该覆盖别人的配置。这包括有关缩进和模式配置的标记。人们可以使用他们自己定制的模
 式，或者使用其他可以产生正确的缩进的巧妙方法。
 
 
+		第十九章：内联汇编
+
+在特定架构的代码中，你也许需要内联汇编来使用 CPU 接口和平台相关功能。在需要
+这么做时，不要犹豫。然而，当 C 可以完成工作时，不要无端地使用内联汇编。如果
+可能，你可以并且应该用 C 和硬件交互。
+
+考虑去写通用一点的内联汇编作为简明的辅助函数，而不是重复写下它们的细节。记住
+内联汇编可以使用 C 参数。
+
+大而特殊的汇编函数应该放在 .S 文件中，对应 C 的原型定义在 C 头文件中。汇编
+函数的 C 原型应该使用 “asmlinkage”。
+
+你可能需要将你的汇编语句标记为 volatile，来阻止 GCC 在没发现任何副作用后就
+移除了它。你不必总是这样做，虽然，这样可以限制不必要的优化。
+
+在写一个包含多条指令的单个内联汇编语句时，把每条指令用引号字符串分离，并写在
+单独一行，在每个字符串结尾，除了 \n\t 结尾之外，在汇编输出中适当地缩进下
+一条指令：
+
+	asm ("magic %reg1, #42\n\t"
+	     "more_magic %reg2, %reg3"
+	     : /* outputs */ : /* inputs */ : /* clobbers */);
+
+
+		第二十章：条件编译
+
+只要可能，就不要在 .c 文件里面使用预处理条件；这样做让代码更难阅读并且逻辑难以
+跟踪。替代方案是，在头文件定义函数在这些 .c 文件中使用这类的条件表达式，提供空
+操作的桩版本（译注：桩程序，是指用来替换一部分功能的程序段）在 #else 情况下，
+再从 .c 文件中无条件地调用这些函数。编译器会避免生成任何桩调用的代码，产生一致
+的结果，但逻辑将更加清晰。
+
+宁可编译整个函数，而不是部分函数或部分表达式。而不是在一个表达式添加 ifdef，
+解析部分或全部表达式到一个单独的辅助函数，并应用条件到该函数内。
+
+如果你有一个在特定配置中可能是未使用的函数或变量，编译器将警告它定义了但未使用，
+标记这个定义为 __maybe_unused 而不是将它包含在一个预处理条件中。（然而，如果
+一个函数或变量总是未使用的，就直接删除它。）
+
+在代码中，可能的情况下，使用 IS_ENABLED 宏来转化某个 Kconfig 标记为 C 的布尔
+表达式，并在正常的 C 条件中使用它：
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SOMETHING)) {
+		...
+	}
+
+编译器会无条件地做常数合并，就像使用 #ifdef 那样，包含或排除代码块，所以这不会
+带来任何运行时开销。然而，这种方法依旧允许 C 编译器查看块内的代码，并检查它的正确
+性（语法，类型，符号引用，等等）。因此，如果条件不满足，代码块内的引用符号将不存在，
+你必须继续使用 #ifdef。
+
+在任何有意义的 #if 或 #ifdef 块的末尾（超过几行），在 #endif 同一行的后面写下
+注释，指出该条件表达式被使用。例如：
+
+	#ifdef CONFIG_SOMETHING
+	...
+	#endif /* CONFIG_SOMETHING */
+
 
 		附录 I：参考
 
-The C Programming Language, 第二版, 作者Brian W. Kernighan和Denni
-M. Ritchie. Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (软皮),
-0-13-110370-9 (硬皮). URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/
+The C Programming Language, 第二版
+作者：Brian W. Kernighan 和 Denni M. Ritchie.
+Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988.
+ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (软皮), 0-13-110370-9 (硬皮).
 
-The Practice of Programming 作者Brian W. Kernighan和Rob Pike.  Addison-Wesley,
-Inc., 1999.  ISBN 0-201-61586-X.  URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/
+The Practice of Programming
+作者：Brian W. Kernighan 和 Rob Pike.
+Addison-Wesley, Inc., 1999.
+ISBN 0-201-61586-X.
 
-cpp，gcc，gcc internals和indent的GNU手册——和K&R及本文相符合的部分，全部可以在
-http://www.gnu.org/manual/找到
+GNU 手册 - 遵循 K&R 标准和此文本 - cpp, gcc, gcc internals and indent,
+都可以从 http://www.gnu.org/manual/ 找到
 
 WG14是C语言的国际标准化工作组，URL: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/
 
-Kernel CodingStyle，作者greg@kroah.com发表于OLS 2002：
+Kernel CodingStyle，作者 greg@kroah.com 发表于OLS 2002：
 http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2002_kernel_codingstyle_talk/html/
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