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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 19 sysctl/index
21 20
22 abi 21 abi
23 features 22 features
24 23
25 This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and 24 This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
26 25
27 .. toctree:: 26 .. toctree::
28 :maxdepth: 1 27 :maxdepth: 1
29 28
30 hw-vuln/index 29 hw-vuln/index
31 30
32 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who 31 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
33 problems and bugs in particular. 32 problems and bugs in particular.
34 33
35 .. toctree:: 34 .. toctree::
36 :maxdepth: 1 35 :maxdepth: 1
37 36
38 reporting-issues 37 reporting-issues
39 reporting-regressions !! 38 security-bugs
40 quickly-build-trimmed-linux <<
41 verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions <<
42 bug-hunting 39 bug-hunting
43 bug-bisect 40 bug-bisect
44 tainted-kernels 41 tainted-kernels
45 ramoops 42 ramoops
46 dynamic-debug-howto 43 dynamic-debug-howto
47 init 44 init
48 kdump/index 45 kdump/index
49 perf/index 46 perf/index
50 pstore-blk 47 pstore-blk
51 48
52 This is the beginning of a section with inform 49 This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
53 application developers. Documents covering va 50 application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
54 ABI will be found here. 51 ABI will be found here.
55 52
56 .. toctree:: 53 .. toctree::
57 :maxdepth: 1 54 :maxdepth: 1
58 55
59 sysfs-rules 56 sysfs-rules
60 57
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 58 The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
73 configure specific aspects of kernel behavior 59 configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
74 60
75 .. toctree:: 61 .. toctree::
76 :maxdepth: 1 62 :maxdepth: 1
77 63
78 acpi/index 64 acpi/index
79 aoe/index 65 aoe/index
80 auxdisplay/index 66 auxdisplay/index
81 bcache 67 bcache
82 binderfs 68 binderfs
83 binfmt-misc 69 binfmt-misc
84 blockdev/index 70 blockdev/index
85 bootconfig 71 bootconfig
86 braille-console 72 braille-console
87 btmrvl 73 btmrvl
88 cgroup-v1/index 74 cgroup-v1/index
89 cgroup-v2 75 cgroup-v2
90 cifs/index 76 cifs/index
91 clearing-warn-once 77 clearing-warn-once
92 cpu-load 78 cpu-load
93 cputopology 79 cputopology
94 dell_rbu 80 dell_rbu
95 device-mapper/index 81 device-mapper/index
96 edid 82 edid
97 efi-stub 83 efi-stub
98 ext4 84 ext4
99 filesystem-monitoring <<
100 nfs/index 85 nfs/index
101 gpio/index 86 gpio/index
102 highuid 87 highuid
103 hw_random 88 hw_random
104 initrd 89 initrd
105 iostats 90 iostats
106 java 91 java
107 jfs 92 jfs
108 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads 93 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
109 laptops/index 94 laptops/index
110 lcd-panel-cgram 95 lcd-panel-cgram
111 ldm 96 ldm
112 lockup-watchdogs 97 lockup-watchdogs
113 LSM/index 98 LSM/index
114 md 99 md
115 media/index 100 media/index
116 mm/index 101 mm/index
117 module-signing 102 module-signing
118 mono 103 mono
119 namespaces/index 104 namespaces/index
120 numastat 105 numastat
121 parport 106 parport
122 perf-security 107 perf-security
123 pm/index 108 pm/index
124 pnp 109 pnp
125 rapidio 110 rapidio
126 RAS/index !! 111 ras
127 rtc 112 rtc
128 serial-console 113 serial-console
129 svga 114 svga
130 syscall-user-dispatch 115 syscall-user-dispatch
131 sysrq 116 sysrq
132 thermal/index <<
133 thunderbolt 117 thunderbolt
134 ufs 118 ufs
135 unicode 119 unicode
136 vga-softcursor 120 vga-softcursor
137 video-output 121 video-output
138 xfs 122 xfs
139 123
140 .. only:: subproject and html 124 .. only:: subproject and html
141 125
142 Indices 126 Indices
143 ======= 127 =======
144 128
145 * :ref:`genindex` 129 * :ref:`genindex`
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