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Date:   Tue, 7 Apr 2020 20:53:31 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        LAK <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -next] Documentation: arm64: fix amu.rst doc warnings

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Fix bullet list formatting to eliminate doc warnings:

Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:26: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:60: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:81: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:108: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@....com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
---
 Documentation/arm64/amu.rst |   47 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20200407.orig/Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
+++ linux-next-20200407/Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ optional external memory-mapped interfac
 
 Version 1 of the Activity Monitors architecture implements a counter group
 of four fixed and architecturally defined 64-bit event counters.
-  - CPU cycle counter: increments at the frequency of the CPU.
-  - Constant counter: increments at the fixed frequency of the system
-    clock.
-  - Instructions retired: increments with every architecturally executed
-    instruction.
-  - Memory stall cycles: counts instruction dispatch stall cycles caused by
-    misses in the last level cache within the clock domain.
+
+- CPU cycle counter: increments at the frequency of the CPU.
+- Constant counter: increments at the fixed frequency of the system
+  clock.
+- Instructions retired: increments with every architecturally executed
+  instruction.
+- Memory stall cycles: counts instruction dispatch stall cycles caused by
+  misses in the last level cache within the clock domain.
 
 When in WFI or WFE these counters do not increment.
 
@@ -57,11 +58,12 @@ counters, only the presence of the exten
 
 Firmware (code running at higher exception levels, e.g. arm-tf) support is
 needed to:
- - Enable access for lower exception levels (EL2 and EL1) to the AMU
-   registers.
- - Enable the counters. If not enabled these will read as 0.
- - Save/restore the counters before/after the CPU is being put/brought up
-   from the 'off' power state.
+
+- Enable access for lower exception levels (EL2 and EL1) to the AMU
+  registers.
+- Enable the counters. If not enabled these will read as 0.
+- Save/restore the counters before/after the CPU is being put/brought up
+  from the 'off' power state.
 
 When using kernels that have this feature enabled but boot with broken
 firmware the user may experience panics or lockups when accessing the
@@ -78,10 +80,11 @@ are not trapped in EL2/EL3.
 
 The fixed counters of AMUv1 are accessible though the following system
 register definitions:
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CORE_EL0
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CONST_EL0
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_INST_RET_EL0
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_MEM_STALL_EL0
+
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CORE_EL0
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CONST_EL0
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_INST_RET_EL0
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_MEM_STALL_EL0
 
 Auxiliary platform specific counters can be accessed using
 SYS_AMEVCNTR1_EL0(n), where n is a value between 0 and 15.
@@ -93,9 +96,10 @@ Userspace access
 ----------------
 
 Currently, access from userspace to the AMU registers is disabled due to:
- - Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed in
-   secure mode.
- - Purpose: AMU counters are intended for system management use.
+
+- Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed in
+  secure mode.
+- Purpose: AMU counters are intended for system management use.
 
 Also, the presence of the feature is not visible to userspace.
 
@@ -105,8 +109,9 @@ Virtualization
 
 Currently, access from userspace (EL0) and kernelspace (EL1) on the KVM
 guest side is disabled due to:
- - Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed
-   by other guests or the host.
+
+- Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed
+  by other guests or the host.
 
 Any attempt to access the AMU registers will result in an UNDEFINED
 exception being injected into the guest.