Merge tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This has been a busy cycle for documentation work.

  Highlights include:

   - Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others.
     Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe...

   - Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api
     manual.

   - Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation.

   - Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..."

* tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits)
  Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
  MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion
  docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
  doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs
  doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory
  docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout
  docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
  docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx
  docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel
  docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst
  docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files
  Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl
  docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref
  docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning
  docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning
  docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst
  docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings
  docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format
  Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual
  Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual
  ...

1 files changed, 72 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
index a501dc1c90d0..0897ad12c119 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
@@ -8,41 +8,81 @@ This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs.  The conversion
 Core utilities
 ==============
 
+This section has general and "core core" documentation.  The first is a
+massive grab-bag of kerneldoc info left over from the docbook days; it
+should really be broken up someday when somebody finds the energy to do
+it.
+
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    kernel-api
+   workqueue
+   printk-formats
+   symbol-namespaces
+
+Data structures and low-level utilities
+=======================================
+
+Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   kobject
    assoc_array
+   xarray
+   idr
+   circular-buffers
+   generic-radix-tree
+   packing
+   timekeeping
+   errseq
+
+Concurrency primitives
+======================
+
+How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time.  See
+:doc:`/locking/index` for more related documentation.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
    atomic_ops
-   cachetlb
    refcount-vs-atomic
-   cpu_hotplug
-   idr
    local_ops
-   workqueue
+   padata
+   ../RCU/index
+
+Low-level hardware management
+=============================
+
+Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   cachetlb
+   cpu_hotplug
+   memory-hotplug
    genericirq
-   xarray
-   librs
-   genalloc
-   errseq
-   packing
-   printk-formats
-   circular-buffers
-   generic-radix-tree
+   protection-keys
+
+Memory management
+=================
+
+How to allocate and use memory in the kernel.  Note that there is a lot
+more memory-management documentation in :doc:`/vm/index`.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
    memory-allocation
    mm-api
+   genalloc
    pin_user_pages
-   gfp_mask-from-fs-io
-   timekeeping
    boot-time-mm
-   memory-hotplug
-   protection-keys
-   ../RCU/index
-   gcc-plugins
-   symbol-namespaces
-   padata
-   ioctl
-
+   gfp_mask-from-fs-io
 
 Interfaces for kernel debugging
 ===============================
@@ -53,6 +93,16 @@ Interfaces for kernel debugging
    debug-objects
    tracepoint
 
+Everything else
+===============
+
+Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   librs
+
 .. only:: subproject and html
 
    Indices