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@@ -8,38 +8,105 @@ 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
- assoc_array
- atomic_ops
- cachetlb
- refcount-vs-atomic
- cpu_hotplug
- idr
- local_ops
workqueue
- genericirq
- xarray
- librs
- genalloc
- errseq
- packing
+ watch_queue
+ printk-basics
printk-formats
+ printk-index
+ symbol-namespaces
+ asm-annotations
+
+Data structures and low-level utilities
+=======================================
+
+Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ kobject
+ kref
+ assoc_array
+ xarray
+ maple_tree
+ idr
circular-buffers
+ rbtree
generic-radix-tree
- memory-allocation
- mm-api
- gfp_mask-from-fs-io
+ packing
+ this_cpu_ops
timekeeping
- boot-time-mm
+ errseq
+ wrappers/atomic_t
+ wrappers/atomic_bitops
+
+Low level entry and exit
+========================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ entry
+
+Concurrency primitives
+======================
+
+How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time. See
+Documentation/locking/index.rst for more related documentation.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ refcount-vs-atomic
+ irq/index
+ local_ops
+ padata
+ ../RCU/index
+ wrappers/memory-barriers.rst
+
+Low-level hardware management
+=============================
+
+Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ cachetlb
+ cpu_hotplug
memory-hotplug
+ genericirq
protection-keys
- ../RCU/index
- gcc-plugins
- symbol-namespaces
+Memory management
+=================
+
+How to allocate and use memory in the kernel. Note that there is a lot
+more memory-management documentation in Documentation/mm/index.rst.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ memory-allocation
+ unaligned-memory-access
+ dma-api
+ dma-api-howto
+ dma-attributes
+ dma-isa-lpc
+ mm-api
+ genalloc
+ pin_user_pages
+ boot-time-mm
+ gfp_mask-from-fs-io
Interfaces for kernel debugging
===============================
@@ -49,6 +116,18 @@ Interfaces for kernel debugging
debug-objects
tracepoint
+ debugging-via-ohci1394
+
+Everything else
+===============
+
+Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ librs
+ netlink
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