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2 The Linux kernel user's and administrator's gu 1 The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
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4 3
5 The following is a collection of user-oriented 4 The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
6 added to the kernel over time. There is, as y 5 added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
7 organization here — this material was not wr 6 organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
8 document! With luck things will improve quick 7 document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
9 8
10 This initial section contains overall informat 9 This initial section contains overall information, including the README
11 file describing the kernel as a whole, documen 10 file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
12 etc. 11 etc.
13 12
14 .. toctree:: 13 .. toctree::
15 :maxdepth: 1 14 :maxdepth: 1
16 15
17 README 16 README
18 kernel-parameters 17 kernel-parameters
19 devices 18 devices
20 sysctl/index <<
21 <<
22 abi <<
23 features <<
24 <<
25 This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and <<
26 <<
27 .. toctree:: <<
28 :maxdepth: 1 <<
29 <<
30 hw-vuln/index <<
31 19
32 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who 20 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
33 problems and bugs in particular. 21 problems and bugs in particular.
34 22
35 .. toctree:: 23 .. toctree::
36 :maxdepth: 1 24 :maxdepth: 1
37 25
38 reporting-issues !! 26 reporting-bugs
39 reporting-regressions !! 27 security-bugs
40 quickly-build-trimmed-linux <<
41 verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions <<
42 bug-hunting 28 bug-hunting
43 bug-bisect 29 bug-bisect
44 tainted-kernels 30 tainted-kernels
45 ramoops 31 ramoops
46 dynamic-debug-howto 32 dynamic-debug-howto
47 init 33 init
48 kdump/index <<
49 perf/index <<
50 pstore-blk <<
51 34
52 This is the beginning of a section with inform 35 This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
53 application developers. Documents covering va 36 application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
54 ABI will be found here. 37 ABI will be found here.
55 38
56 .. toctree:: 39 .. toctree::
57 :maxdepth: 1 40 :maxdepth: 1
58 41
59 sysfs-rules 42 sysfs-rules
60 43
61 This is the beginning of a section with inform <<
62 application developers and system integrators <<
63 Linux kernel for safety critical applications. <<
64 analysis of kernel interactions with applicati <<
65 subsystems expectations will be found here. <<
66 <<
67 .. toctree:: <<
68 :maxdepth: 1 <<
69 <<
70 workload-tracing <<
71 <<
72 The rest of this manual consists of various un 44 The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
73 configure specific aspects of kernel behavior 45 configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
74 46
75 .. toctree:: 47 .. toctree::
76 :maxdepth: 1 48 :maxdepth: 1
77 49
78 acpi/index <<
79 aoe/index <<
80 auxdisplay/index <<
81 bcache <<
82 binderfs <<
83 binfmt-misc <<
84 blockdev/index <<
85 bootconfig <<
86 braille-console <<
87 btmrvl <<
88 cgroup-v1/index <<
89 cgroup-v2 <<
90 cifs/index <<
91 clearing-warn-once <<
92 cpu-load <<
93 cputopology <<
94 dell_rbu <<
95 device-mapper/index <<
96 edid <<
97 efi-stub <<
98 ext4 <<
99 filesystem-monitoring <<
100 nfs/index <<
101 gpio/index <<
102 highuid <<
103 hw_random <<
104 initrd 50 initrd
105 iostats !! 51 serial-console
106 java !! 52 braille-console
107 jfs !! 53 parport
108 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads <<
109 laptops/index <<
110 lcd-panel-cgram <<
111 ldm <<
112 lockup-watchdogs <<
113 LSM/index <<
114 md 54 md
115 media/index <<
116 mm/index <<
117 module-signing 55 module-signing
118 mono <<
119 namespaces/index <<
120 numastat <<
121 parport <<
122 perf-security <<
123 pm/index <<
124 pnp <<
125 rapidio <<
126 RAS/index <<
127 rtc <<
128 serial-console <<
129 svga <<
130 syscall-user-dispatch <<
131 sysrq 56 sysrq
132 thermal/index <<
133 thunderbolt <<
134 ufs <<
135 unicode 57 unicode
136 vga-softcursor 58 vga-softcursor
137 video-output !! 59 binfmt-misc
138 xfs !! 60 mono
>> 61 java
>> 62 ras
>> 63 pm/index
>> 64 thunderbolt
>> 65 LSM/index
139 66
140 .. only:: subproject and html 67 .. only:: subproject and html
141 68
142 Indices 69 Indices
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144 71
145 * :ref:`genindex` 72 * :ref:`genindex`
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