Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...

Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst

@@ -13,32 +13,32 @@ kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future.
 
 This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM.
 
-To quote the overview comment:
+To quote the overview comment::
 
- * High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
- * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
- * failure.
- *
- * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
- * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
- * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
- * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
- * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
- * when that happens another machine check will happen.
- *
- * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
- * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
- * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
- * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
- * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
- * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
- * error handling takes potentially a long time.
- *
- * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
- * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
- * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
- * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
- * to be rare we hope we can get away with this.
+	High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
+	hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
+	failure.
+
+	This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
+	When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
+	running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
+	that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
+	just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
+	when that happens another machine check will happen.
+
+	Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
+	here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
+	users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
+	possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
+	has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
+	rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
+	error handling takes potentially a long time.
+
+	Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
+	linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
+	been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
+	for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
+	to be rare we hope we can get away with this.
 
 The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c,
 a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned

Documentation/vm/numa.rst

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Local allocation will tend to keep subsequent access to the allocated memory
 as long as the task on whose behalf the kernel allocated some memory does not
 later migrate away from that memory.  The Linux scheduler is aware of the
 NUMA topology of the platform--embodied in the "scheduling domains" data
-structures [see Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt]--and the scheduler
+structures [see Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst]--and the scheduler
 attempts to minimize task migration to distant scheduling domains.  However,
 the scheduler does not take a task's NUMA footprint into account directly.
 Thus, under sufficient imbalance, tasks can migrate between nodes, remote