Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...

5 files changed, 27 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
index 70274c3f5f5a..6c791af1c859 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Four basic modes are defined: ``patch``, ``report``, ``context``, and
   file:line:column-column: message
 
 - ``context`` highlights lines of interest and their context in a
-  diff-like style.Lines of interest are indicated with ``-``.
+  diff-like style. Lines of interest are indicated with ``-``.
 
 - ``org`` generates a report in the Org mode format of Emacs.
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ For each semantic patch, a commit message is proposed.  It gives a
 description of the problem being checked by the semantic patch, and
 includes a reference to Coccinelle.
 
-As any static code analyzer, Coccinelle produces false
+As with any static code analyzer, Coccinelle produces false
 positives. Thus, reports must be carefully checked, and patches
 reviewed.
 
@@ -135,18 +135,18 @@ the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs::
 
    make coccicheck MODE=report J=4
 
-As of Coccinelle 1.0.2 Coccinelle uses Ocaml parmap for parallelization,
+As of Coccinelle 1.0.2 Coccinelle uses Ocaml parmap for parallelization;
 if support for this is detected you will benefit from parmap parallelization.
 
 When parmap is enabled coccicheck will enable dynamic load balancing by using
-``--chunksize 1`` argument, this ensures we keep feeding threads with work
+``--chunksize 1`` argument. This ensures we keep feeding threads with work
 one by one, so that we avoid the situation where most work gets done by only
 a few threads. With dynamic load balancing, if a thread finishes early we keep
 feeding it more work.
 
 When parmap is enabled, if an error occurs in Coccinelle, this error
-value is propagated back, the return value of the ``make coccicheck``
-captures this return value.
+value is propagated back, and the return value of the ``make coccicheck``
+command captures this return value.
 
 Using Coccinelle with a single semantic patch
 ---------------------------------------------
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ To check only newly edited code, use the value 2 for the C flag, i.e.::
 
     make C=2 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck"
 
-In these modes, which works on a file basis, there is no information
+In these modes, which work on a file basis, there is no information
 about semantic patches displayed, and no commit message proposed.
 
 This runs every semantic patch in scripts/coccinelle by default. The
@@ -198,12 +198,12 @@ Debugging Coccinelle SmPL patches
 
 Using coccicheck is best as it provides in the spatch command line
 include options matching the options used when we compile the kernel.
-You can learn what these options are by using V=1, you could then
+You can learn what these options are by using V=1; you could then
 manually run Coccinelle with debug options added.
 
 Alternatively you can debug running Coccinelle against SmPL patches
-by asking for stderr to be redirected to stderr, by default stderr
-is redirected to /dev/null, if you'd like to capture stderr you
+by asking for stderr to be redirected to stderr. By default stderr
+is redirected to /dev/null; if you'd like to capture stderr you
 can specify the ``DEBUG_FILE="file.txt"`` option to coccicheck. For
 instance::
 
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ instance::
     make coccicheck COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci MODE=report DEBUG_FILE=cocci.err
     cat cocci.err
 
-You can use SPFLAGS to add debugging flags, for instance you may want to
-add both --profile --show-trying to SPFLAGS when debugging. For instance
+You can use SPFLAGS to add debugging flags; for instance you may want to
+add both --profile --show-trying to SPFLAGS when debugging. For example
 you may want to use::
 
     rm -f err.log
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.0.2.
 --------------------
 
 Coccinelle supports reading .cocciconfig for default Coccinelle options that
-should be used every time spatch is spawned, the order of precedence for
+should be used every time spatch is spawned. The order of precedence for
 variables for .cocciconfig is as follows:
 
 - Your current user's home directory is processed first
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ variables for .cocciconfig is as follows:
 - The directory provided with the --dir option is processed last, if used
 
 Since coccicheck runs through make, it naturally runs from the kernel
-proper dir, as such the second rule above would be implied for picking up a
+proper dir; as such the second rule above would be implied for picking up a
 .cocciconfig when using ``make coccicheck``.
 
 ``make coccicheck`` also supports using M= targets. If you do not supply
@@ -260,13 +260,13 @@ If not using the kernel's coccicheck target, keep the above precedence
 order logic of .cocciconfig reading. If using the kernel's coccicheck target,
 override any of the kernel's .coccicheck's settings using SPFLAGS.
 
-We help Coccinelle when used against Linux with a set of sensible defaults
+We help Coccinelle when used against Linux with a set of sensible default
 options for Linux with our own Linux .cocciconfig. This hints to coccinelle
-git can be used for ``git grep`` queries over coccigrep. A timeout of 200
+that git can be used for ``git grep`` queries over coccigrep. A timeout of 200
 seconds should suffice for now.
 
 The options picked up by coccinelle when reading a .cocciconfig do not appear
-as arguments to spatch processes running on your system, to confirm what
+as arguments to spatch processes running on your system. To confirm what
 options will be used by Coccinelle run::
 
       spatch --print-options-only
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ given to it when options are in conflict. ::
 
 Coccinelle supports idutils as well but requires coccinelle >= 1.0.6.
 When no ID file is specified coccinelle assumes your ID database file
-is in the file .id-utils.index on the top level of the kernel, coccinelle
+is in the file .id-utils.index on the top level of the kernel. Coccinelle
 carries a script scripts/idutils_index.sh which creates the database with::
 
     mkid -i C --output .id-utils.index
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ SmPL patch specific options
 ---------------------------
 
 SmPL patches can have their own requirements for options passed
-to Coccinelle. SmPL patch specific options can be provided by
+to Coccinelle. SmPL patch-specific options can be provided by
 providing them at the top of the SmPL patch, for instance::
 
 	// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ SmPL patch Coccinelle requirements
 
 As Coccinelle features get added some more advanced SmPL patches
 may require newer versions of Coccinelle. If an SmPL patch requires
-at least a version of Coccinelle, this can be specified as follows,
+a minimum version of Coccinelle, this can be specified as follows,
 as an example if requiring at least Coccinelle >= 1.0.5::
 
 	// Requires: 1.0.5
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
index 7bd013596217..9e989baae154 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Possible uses:
 * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
   associated code is never run?)
 
-.. _gcov: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
+.. _gcov: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
 .. _lcov: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php
 
 
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Note on compilers
 GCC and LLVM gcov tools are not necessarily compatible. Use gcov_ to work with
 GCC-generated .gcno and .gcda files, and use llvm-cov_ for Clang.
 
-.. _gcov: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
+.. _gcov: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
 .. _llvm-cov: https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html
 
 Build differences between GCC and Clang gcov are handled by Kconfig. It
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
index 61293f40bc6e..0e52e966a153 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ The kgdboc driver contains logic to configure communications with an
 attached keyboard. The keyboard infrastructure is only compiled into the
 kernel when ``CONFIG_KDB_KEYBOARD=y`` is set in the kernel configuration.
 
-The core polled keyboard driver driver for PS/2 type keyboards is in
+The core polled keyboard driver for PS/2 type keyboards is in
 ``drivers/char/kdb_keyboard.c``. This driver is hooked into the debug core
 when kgdboc populates the callback in the array called
 :c:type:`kdb_poll_funcs[]`. The :c:func:`kdb_get_kbd_char` is the top-level
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
index fce262883984..a41a2d238af2 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only
 reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
 Valgrind tool (``memcheck --leak-check``) to detect the memory leaks in
 user-space applications.
-Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, arm64, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze, mips,
-s390, nds32, arc and xtensa.
 
 Usage
 -----
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
index 6f4870528226..02102be7ff49 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Sparse is a semantic checker for C programs; it can be used to find a
 number of potential problems with kernel code.  See
 https://lwn.net/Articles/689907/ for an overview of sparse; this document
 contains some kernel-specific sparse information.
+More information on sparse, mainly about its internals, can be found in
+its official pages at https://sparse.docs.kernel.org.
 
 
 Using sparse for typechecking
@@ -73,8 +75,8 @@ sparse would otherwise report a context imbalance.
 Getting sparse
 --------------
 
-You can get latest released versions from the Sparse homepage at
-https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
+You can get tarballs of the latest released versions from:
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/
 
 Alternatively, you can get snapshots of the latest development version
 of sparse using git to clone::