Documentation/core-api/index.rst

   1 ======================
   2 Core API Documentation
   3 ======================
   4
   5 This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs.  The conversion
   6 (and writing!) of documents for this manual is much appreciated!
   7
   8 Core utilities
   9 ==============
  10
  11 This section has general and "core core" documentation.  The first is a
  12 massive grab-bag of kerneldoc info left over from the docbook days; it
  13 should really be broken up someday when somebody finds the energy to do
  14 it.
  15
  16 .. toctree::
  17    :maxdepth: 1
  18
  19    kernel-api
  20    workqueue
  21    printk-basics
  22    printk-formats
  23    symbol-namespaces
  24
  25 Data structures and low-level utilities
  26 =======================================
  27
  28 Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
  29
  30 .. toctree::
  31    :maxdepth: 1
  32
  33    kobject
  34    kref
  35    assoc_array
  36    xarray
  37    idr
  38    circular-buffers
  39    rbtree
  40    generic-radix-tree
  41    packing
  42    bus-virt-phys-mapping
  43    this_cpu_ops
  44    timekeeping
  45    errseq
  46
  47 Concurrency primitives
  48 ======================
  49
  50 How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time.  See
  51 :doc:`/locking/index` for more related documentation.
  52
  53 .. toctree::
  54    :maxdepth: 1
  55
  56    atomic_ops
  57    refcount-vs-atomic
  58    irq/index
  59    local_ops
  60    padata
  61    ../RCU/index
  62
  63 Low-level hardware management
  64 =============================
  65
  66 Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc.
  67
  68 .. toctree::
  69    :maxdepth: 1
  70
  71    cachetlb
  72    cpu_hotplug
  73    memory-hotplug
  74    genericirq
  75    protection-keys
  76
  77 Memory management
  78 =================
  79
  80 How to allocate and use memory in the kernel.  Note that there is a lot
  81 more memory-management documentation in :doc:`/vm/index`.
  82
  83 .. toctree::
  84    :maxdepth: 1
  85
  86    memory-allocation
  87    unaligned-memory-access
  88    dma-api
  89    dma-api-howto
  90    dma-attributes
  91    dma-isa-lpc
  92    mm-api
  93    genalloc
  94    pin_user_pages
  95    boot-time-mm
  96    gfp_mask-from-fs-io
  97
  98 Interfaces for kernel debugging
  99 ===============================
 100
 101 .. toctree::
 102    :maxdepth: 1
 103
 104    debug-objects
 105    tracepoint
 106    debugging-via-ohci1394
 107
 108 Everything else
 109 ===============
 110
 111 Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized.
 112
 113 .. toctree::
 114    :maxdepth: 1
 115
 116    librs
 117
 118 .. only:: subproject and html
 119
 120    Indices
 121    =======
 122
 123    * :ref:`genindex`