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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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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.
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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 19
25 This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and !! 20 This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and provides an overview of the
>> 21 possible mitigations along with guidance for selecting mitigations if they
>> 22 are configurable at compile, boot or run time.
26 23
27 .. toctree:: 24 .. toctree::
28 :maxdepth: 1 25 :maxdepth: 1
29 26
30 hw-vuln/index !! 27 l1tf
31 28
32 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who 29 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
33 problems and bugs in particular. 30 problems and bugs in particular.
34 31
35 .. toctree:: 32 .. toctree::
36 :maxdepth: 1 33 :maxdepth: 1
37 34
38 reporting-issues !! 35 reporting-bugs
39 reporting-regressions !! 36 security-bugs
40 quickly-build-trimmed-linux <<
41 verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions <<
42 bug-hunting 37 bug-hunting
43 bug-bisect 38 bug-bisect
44 tainted-kernels 39 tainted-kernels
45 ramoops 40 ramoops
46 dynamic-debug-howto 41 dynamic-debug-howto
47 init 42 init
48 kdump/index <<
49 perf/index <<
50 pstore-blk <<
51 43
52 This is the beginning of a section with inform 44 This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
53 application developers. Documents covering va 45 application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
54 ABI will be found here. 46 ABI will be found here.
55 47
56 .. toctree:: 48 .. toctree::
57 :maxdepth: 1 49 :maxdepth: 1
58 50
59 sysfs-rules 51 sysfs-rules
60 52
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 53 The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
73 configure specific aspects of kernel behavior 54 configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
74 55
75 .. toctree:: 56 .. toctree::
76 :maxdepth: 1 57 :maxdepth: 1
77 58
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 59 initrd
105 iostats !! 60 cgroup-v2
106 java !! 61 serial-console
107 jfs !! 62 braille-console
108 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads !! 63 parport
109 laptops/index <<
110 lcd-panel-cgram <<
111 ldm <<
112 lockup-watchdogs <<
113 LSM/index <<
114 md 64 md
115 media/index <<
116 mm/index <<
117 module-signing 65 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 66 sysrq
132 thermal/index <<
133 thunderbolt <<
134 ufs <<
135 unicode 67 unicode
136 vga-softcursor 68 vga-softcursor
137 video-output !! 69 binfmt-misc
138 xfs !! 70 mono
>> 71 java
>> 72 ras
>> 73 bcache
>> 74 pm/index
>> 75 thunderbolt
>> 76 LSM/index
>> 77 mm/index
139 78
140 .. only:: subproject and html 79 .. only:: subproject and html
141 80
142 Indices 81 Indices
143 ======= 82 =======
144 83
145 * :ref:`genindex` 84 * :ref:`genindex`
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