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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-11-06 17:32:55 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-11-06 17:33:38 -0800
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst1
9 files changed, 67 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
index 17996c9070e2..0ec34863c674 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ for a UID/GID will prevent that UID/GID from obtaining auxiliary setid
privileges, such as allowing a user to set up user namespace UID/GID mappings.
Note on GID policies and setgroups()
-==================
+====================================
In v5.9 we are adding support for limiting CAP_SETGID privileges as was done
previously for CAP_SETUID. However, for compatibility with common sandboxing
related code conventions in userspace, we currently allow arbitrary
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d095867899c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+ABI obsolete symbols
+====================
+
+Documents interfaces that are still remaining in the kernel, but are
+marked to be removed at some later point in time.
+
+The description of the interface will document the reason why it is
+obsolete and when it can be expected to be removed.
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/obsolete
+ :rst:
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7e9e43023c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+ABI removed symbols
+===================
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/removed
+ :rst:
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..70490736e0d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+ABI stable symbols
+==================
+
+Documents the interfaces that the developer has defined to be stable.
+
+Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces with no
+restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will be guaranteed
+for at least 2 years.
+
+Most interfaces (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always
+be available.
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/stable
+ :rst:
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b205b16a72d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+ABI testing symbols
+===================
+
+Documents interfaces that are felt to be stable,
+as the main development of this interface has been completed.
+
+The interface can be changed to add new features, but the
+current interface will not break by doing this, unless grave
+errors or security problems are found in them.
+
+Userspace programs can start to rely on these interfaces, but they must
+be aware of changes that can occur before these interfaces move to
+be marked stable.
+
+Programs that use these interfaces are strongly encouraged to add their
+name to the description of these interfaces, so that the kernel
+developers can easily notify them if any changes occur.
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/testing
+ :rst:
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bcab3ef2597c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+=====================
+Linux ABI description
+=====================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ abi-stable
+ abi-testing
+ abi-obsolete
+ abi-removed
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index d53986a424c4..5857347f6ce8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ etc.
devices
sysctl/index
+ abi
+
This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
.. toctree::
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
index 37940a0584ec..10fde58d0869 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ order to ask the hardware to enter that state. Also, for each
statistics of the given idle state. That information is exposed by the kernel
via ``sysfs``.
-For each CPU in the system, there is a :file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu<N>/cpuidle/`
+For each CPU in the system, there is a :file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<N>/cpuidle/`
directory in ``sysfs``, where the number ``<N>`` is assigned to the given
CPU at the initialization time. That directory contains a set of subdirectories
called :file:`state0`, :file:`state1` and so on, up to the number of idle state
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ object corresponding to it, as follows:
residency.
``below``
- Total number of times this idle state had been asked for, but cerainly
+ Total number of times this idle state had been asked for, but certainly
a deeper idle state would have been a better match for the observed idle
duration.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
index 57fd6ce68fe0..f2ab8a5b6a4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ Note:
0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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+
netdev_tstamp_prequeue
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