linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs/core-api: Remove possibly confusing sub-headings from Bit Operations

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Date:   Wed,  4 Dec 2019 22:19:57 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, dja@...ens.net, elver@...gle.com,
        corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs/core-api: Remove possibly confusing sub-headings from Bit Operations

The recent commit 81d2c6f81996 ("kasan: support instrumented bitops
combined with generic bitops"), split the KASAN instrumented bitops
into separate headers for atomic, non-atomic and locking operations.

This was done to allow arches to include just the instrumented bitops
they need, while also using some of the generic bitops in
asm-generic/bitops (which are automatically instrumented). The generic
bitops are already split into atomic, non-atomic and locking headers.

This split required an update to kernel-api.rst because it included
include/asm-generic/bitops-instrumented.h, which no longer exists. So
now kernel-api.rst includes all three instrumented headers to get the
definitions for all the bitops.

When adding the three headers it seemed sensible to add sub-headings
for each, ie. "Atomic", "Non-atomic" and "Locking".

The confusion is that test_bit() is (and always has been) in
non-atomic.h, but is documented elsewhere (atomic_bitops.txt) as being
atomic. So having it appear under the "Non-atomic" heading is possibly
confusing.

Probably test_bit() should move from bitops/non-atomic.h to atomic.h,
but that has flow on effects. For now just remove the newly added
sub-headings in the documentation, so we at least aren't adding to the
confusion about whether test_bit() is atomic or not.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
---
 Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Just FYI. I've applied this to my topic/kasan-bitops branch which I plan to ask
Linus to pull before the end of the merge window.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=topic/kasan-bitops

cheers

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
index 2caaeb55e8dd..4ac53a1363f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
@@ -57,21 +57,12 @@ The Linux kernel provides more basic utility functions.
 Bit Operations
 --------------

-Atomic Operations
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
 .. kernel-doc:: include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h
    :internal:

-Non-atomic Operations
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
 .. kernel-doc:: include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h
    :internal:

-Locking Operations
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
 .. kernel-doc:: include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-lock.h
    :internal:

-- 
2.21.0