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