Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
  documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
  adjustments from Thomas"

* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
  docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
  Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
  doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
  docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
  Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
  docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
  doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
  doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
  Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
  scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
  doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
  Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
  doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
  doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
  perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
  perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
  perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
  perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
  sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
  docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is"
  ...

Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst

@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ The details of these operations are:
    dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds
    it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      After calling ``dmaengine_submit()`` the submitted transfer descriptor
+      (``struct dma_async_tx_descriptor``) belongs to the DMA engine.
+      Consequentially, the client must consider invalid the pointer to that
+      descriptor.
+
 5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification
 
    The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the

Documentation/driver-api/iio/buffers.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ IIO buffer setup
 ================
 
 The meta information associated with a channel reading placed in a buffer is
-called a scan element . The important bits configuring scan elements are
+called a scan element. The important bits configuring scan elements are
 exposed to userspace applications via the
 :file:`/sys/bus/iio/iio:device{X}/scan_elements/*` directory. This file contains
 attributes of the following form:

Documentation/driver-api/iio/core.rst

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Core elements
 =============
 
-The Industrial I/O core offers a unified framework for writing drivers for
-many different types of embedded sensors. a standard interface to user space
+The Industrial I/O core offers both a unified framework for writing drivers for
+many different types of embedded sensors and a standard interface to user space
 applications manipulating sensors. The implementation can be found under
 :file:`drivers/iio/industrialio-*`
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Industrial I/O Devices
 ----------------------
 
 * struct :c:type:`iio_dev` - industrial I/O device
-* :c:func:`iio_device_alloc()` - alocate an :c:type:`iio_dev` from a driver
+* :c:func:`iio_device_alloc()` - allocate an :c:type:`iio_dev` from a driver
 * :c:func:`iio_device_free()` - free an :c:type:`iio_dev` from a driver
 * :c:func:`iio_device_register()` - register a device with the IIO subsystem
 * :c:func:`iio_device_unregister()` - unregister a device from the IIO

Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ===========
 HW consumer
 ===========
-An IIO device can be directly connected to another device in hardware. in this
+An IIO device can be directly connected to another device in hardware. In this
 case the buffers between IIO provider and IIO consumer are handled by hardware.
 The Industrial I/O HW consumer offers a way to bond these IIO devices without
 software buffer for data. The implementation can be found under

Documentation/driver-api/iio/triggers.rst

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ There are two locations in sysfs related to triggers:
 
 * :file:`/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device{X}/trigger/*`, this directory is
   created once the device supports a triggered buffer. We can associate a
-  trigger with our  device by writing the trigger's name in the
+  trigger with our device by writing the trigger's name in the
   :file:`current_trigger` file.
 
 IIO trigger setup