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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/asm-annotations.rst (renamed from Documentation/asm-annotations.rst) | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/index.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst b/Documentation/core-api/asm-annotations.rst index a64f2ca469d4..bc514ed59887 100644 --- a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/asm-annotations.rst @@ -43,10 +43,11 @@ annotated objects like this, tools can be run on them to generate more useful information. In particular, on properly annotated objects, ``objtool`` can be run to check and fix the object if needed. Currently, ``objtool`` can report missing frame pointer setup/destruction in functions. It can also -automatically generate annotations for :doc:`ORC unwinder <x86/orc-unwinder>` +automatically generate annotations for the ORC unwinder +(Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.rst) for most code. Both of these are especially important to support reliable -stack traces which are in turn necessary for :doc:`Kernel live patching -<livepatch/livepatch>`. +stack traces which are in turn necessary for kernel live patching +(Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst). Caveat and Discussion --------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst index dc95df462eea..f5d8e3779fe8 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ it. printk-formats printk-index symbol-namespaces + asm-annotations Data structures and low-level utilities ======================================= diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst index da80c584133c..5a700548ae82 100644 --- a/Documentation/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/index.rst @@ -89,14 +89,6 @@ platform firmwares. devicetree/index -Architecture-agnostic documentation ------------------------------------ - -.. toctree:: - :maxdepth: 1 - - asm-annotations - Architecture-specific documentation ----------------------------------- diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 79e759aac543..812af52f97d2 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3751,7 +3751,7 @@ sub process { if ($realfile =~ /\.S$/ && $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:[A-Z]+_)?SYM_[A-Z]+_(?:START|END)(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(\s*\.L/) { WARN("AVOID_L_PREFIX", - "Avoid using '.L' prefixed local symbol names for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations; see Documentation/asm-annotations.rst\n" . $herecurr); + "Avoid using '.L' prefixed local symbol names for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations; see Documentation/core-api/asm-annotations.rst\n" . $herecurr); } # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk |