Merge branch 'docs-mw' into docs-next

Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

@@ -356,5 +356,5 @@ instructions at 'Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst'.
 
 Hints on understanding kernel bug reports are in
 'Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst'. More on debugging the kernel
-with gdb is in 'Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst' and
-'Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst'.
+with gdb is in 'Documentation/process/debugging/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst' and
+'Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst'.

Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ added to the kernel over time.  There is, as yet, little overall order or
 organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
 document!  With luck things will improve quickly over time.
 
+General guides to kernel administration
+---------------------------------------
+
 This initial section contains overall information, including the README
 file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
 etc.
@@ -15,19 +18,44 @@ etc.
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    README
-   kernel-parameters
    devices
-   sysctl/index
 
-   abi
    features
 
-This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
+A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs
+virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   sysfs-rules
+   sysctl/index
+   cputopology
+   abi
+
+Security-related documentation:
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    hw-vuln/index
+   LSM/index
+   perf-security
+
+Booting the kernel
+------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   bootconfig
+   kernel-parameters
+   efi-stub
+   initrd
+
+
+Tracking down and identifying problems
+--------------------------------------
 
 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
 problems and bugs in particular.
@@ -48,95 +76,120 @@ problems and bugs in particular.
    kdump/index
    perf/index
    pstore-blk
+   clearing-warn-once
+   kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
+   lockup-watchdogs
+   RAS/index
+   sysrq
 
-This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
-application developers.  Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
-ABI will be found here.
+
+Core-kernel subsystems
+----------------------
+
+These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are
+likely to be of interest on almost any system.
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
-   sysfs-rules
+   cgroup-v2
+   cgroup-v1/index
+   cpu-load
+   mm/index
+   module-signing
+   namespaces/index
+   numastat
+   pm/index
+   syscall-user-dispatch
 
-This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
-application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
-Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting
-analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel
-subsystems expectations will be found here.
+Support for non-native binary formats.  Note that some of these
+documents are ... old ...
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
-   workload-tracing
+   binfmt-misc
+   java
+   mono
 
-The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
-configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
+
+Block-layer and filesystem administration
+-----------------------------------------
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
-   acpi/index
-   aoe/index
-   auxdisplay/index
    bcache
    binderfs
-   binfmt-misc
    blockdev/index
-   bootconfig
-   braille-console
-   btmrvl
-   cgroup-v1/index
-   cgroup-v2
    cifs/index
-   clearing-warn-once
-   cpu-load
-   cputopology
-   dell_rbu
    device-mapper/index
-   edid
-   efi-stub
    ext4
    filesystem-monitoring
    nfs/index
-   gpio/index
-   highuid
-   hw_random
-   initrd
    iostats
-   java
    jfs
-   kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
+   md
+   ufs
+   xfs
+
+Device-specific guides
+----------------------
+
+How to configure your hardware within your Linux system.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   acpi/index
+   aoe/index
+   auxdisplay/index
+   braille-console
+   btmrvl
+   dell_rbu
+   edid
+   gpio/index
+   hw_random
    laptops/index
    lcd-panel-cgram
-   ldm
-   lockup-watchdogs
-   LSM/index
-   md
    media/index
-   mm/index
-   module-signing
-   mono
-   namespaces/index
-   numastat
+   nvme-multipath
    parport
-   perf-security
-   pm/index
    pnp
    rapidio
-   RAS/index
    rtc
    serial-console
    svga
-   syscall-user-dispatch
-   sysrq
    thermal/index
    thunderbolt
-   ufs
-   unicode
    vga-softcursor
    video-output
-   xfs
-   nvme-multipath
+
+Workload analysis
+-----------------
+
+This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
+application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
+Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting
+analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel
+subsystems expectations will be found here.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   workload-tracing
+
+Everything else
+---------------
+
+A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   highuid
+   ldm
+   unicode
 
 .. only::  subproject and html
 

Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ whole; patches welcome!
 A brief overview of testing-specific tools can be found in
 Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
 
+Tools that are specific to debugging can be found in
+Documentation/process/debugging/index.rst
+
 .. toctree::
    :caption: Table of contents
    :maxdepth: 2
@@ -27,8 +30,6 @@ Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
    kmemleak
    kcsan
    kfence
-   gdb-kernel-debugging
-   kgdb
    kselftest
    kunit/index
    ktap

Documentation/process/debugging/index.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ general guides
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    driver_development_debugging_guide
+   gdb-kernel-debugging
+   kgdb
    userspace_debugging_guide
 
 .. only::  subproject and html

MAINTAINERS

@@ -12811,7 +12811,7 @@ L:	kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
 S:	Maintained
 W:	http://kgdb.wiki.kernel.org/
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb.git
-F:	Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
+F:	Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst
 F:	drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
 F:	drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
 F:	include/linux/kdb.h

include/linux/tty_driver.h

@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ struct serial_struct;
  *
  * @poll_init: ``int ()(struct tty_driver *driver, int line, char *options)``
  *
- *	kgdboc support (Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst). This routine is
+ *	kgdboc support (Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst). This routine is
  *	called to initialize the HW for later use by calling @poll_get_char or
  *	@poll_put_char.
  *

lib/Kconfig.debug

@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ config GDB_SCRIPTS
 	  build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
 	  scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
 	  additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
-	  instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
+	  instance. See Documentation/process/debugging/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
 	  for further details.
 
 endif # DEBUG_INFO

lib/Kconfig.kgdb

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ menuconfig KGDB
 	  CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER to aid in producing more reliable stack
 	  backtraces in the external debugger.  Documentation of
 	  kernel debugger is available at http://kgdb.sourceforge.net
-	  as well as in Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst.  If
+	  as well as in Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst.  If
 	  unsure, say N.
 
 if KGDB