Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux into devel/docs-next

* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (64 commits)
  Add .pyc files to .gitignore
  Doc: PM: Fix a typo in intel_powerclamp.txt
  doc-rst: flat-table directive - initial implementation
  Documentation: add meta-documentation for Sphinx and kernel-doc
  Documentation: tiny typo fix in usb/gadget_multi.txt
  Documentation: fix wrong value in md.txt
  bcache: documentation formatting, edited for clarity, stripe alignment notes
  bcache: documentation updates and corrections
  Documentation: add top level 'make help' output for Sphinx
  Documentation/sphinx: drop modindex, we don't have python modules
  Documentation/sphinx: add support for specifying extra export files
  Documentation/sphinx: use a more sensible string split in kernel-doc extension
  Documentation/sphinx: remove unnecessary temporary variable
  kernel-doc: unify all EXPORT_SYMBOL scanning to one place
  kernel-doc: add support for specifying extra files for EXPORT_SYMBOLs
  kernel-doc: abstract filename mapping
  kernel-doc: add missing semi-colons in option parsing
  kernel-doc: do not warn about duplicate default section names
  kernel-doc: remove old debug cruft from dump_section()
  docs: kernel-doc: Add "example" and "note" to the magic section types
  ...

Documentation/.gitignore

+output
+*.pyc

Documentation/DocBook/Makefile

@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ PDF_METHOD	= $(prefer-db2x)
 PS_METHOD	= $(prefer-db2x)
 
 
-###
-# The targets that may be used.
-PHONY += xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs cleandocs
-
 targets += $(DOCBOOKS)
 BOOKS := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(DOCBOOKS))
 xmldocs: $(BOOKS)
@@ -63,6 +59,9 @@ installmandocs: mandocs
 		sort -k 2 -k 1 | uniq -f 1 | sed -e 's: :/:' | \
 		xargs install -m 644 -t /usr/local/man/man9/
 
+# no-op for the DocBook toolchain
+epubdocs:
+
 ###
 #External programs used
 KERNELDOCXMLREF = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc-xml-ref
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@ silent_gen_xml = :
 ###
 # Help targets as used by the top-level makefile
 dochelp:
-	@echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:'
+	@echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats (DocBook):'
 	@echo  '  htmldocs        - HTML'
 	@echo  '  pdfdocs         - PDF'
 	@echo  '  psdocs          - Postscript'
@@ -228,7 +227,7 @@ dochelp:
 	@echo  '  installmandocs  - install man pages generated by mandocs'
 	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated DocBook files'
 	@echo
-	@echo  'make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'
+	@echo  '  make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'
 	@echo  '  valid values for DOCBOOKS are: $(DOCBOOKS)'
 
 

Documentation/Makefile.sphinx

+# -*- makefile -*-
+# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+PAPER         =
+BUILDDIR      = $(obj)/output
+
+# User-friendly check for sphinx-build
+HAVE_SPHINX := $(shell if which $(SPHINXBUILD) >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
+
+ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX),0)
+
+.DEFAULT:
+	$(warning The '$(SPHINXBUILD)' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx installed and in PATH, or set the SPHINXBUILD make variable to point to the full path of the '$(SPHINXBUILD)' executable.)
+	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
+
+else # HAVE_SPHINX
+
+# User-friendly check for rst2pdf
+HAVE_RST2PDF := $(shell if python -c "import rst2pdf" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
+
+# Internal variables.
+PAPEROPT_a4     = -D latex_paper_size=a4
+PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
+KERNELDOC       = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc
+KERNELDOC_CONF  = -D kerneldoc_srctree=$(srctree) -D kerneldoc_bin=$(KERNELDOC)
+ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -D version=$(KERNELVERSION) -D release=$(KERNELRELEASE) -d $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees $(KERNELDOC_CONF) $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) -c $(srctree)/$(src) $(SPHINXOPTS) $(srctree)/$(src)
+# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
+I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
+
+quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX  $@
+      cmd_sphinx = $(SPHINXBUILD) -b $2 $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/$2
+
+htmldocs:
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,html)
+
+pdfdocs:
+ifeq ($(HAVE_RST2PDF),0)
+	$(warning The Python 'rst2pdf' module was not found. Make sure you have the module installed to produce PDF output.)
+	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
+else # HAVE_RST2PDF
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,pdf)
+endif # HAVE_RST2PDF
+
+epubdocs:
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,epub)
+
+xmldocs:
+	$(call cmd,sphinx,xml)
+
+# no-ops for the Sphinx toolchain
+sgmldocs:
+psdocs:
+mandocs:
+installmandocs:
+
+cleandocs:
+	$(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)
+
+dochelp:
+	@echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats (Sphinx):'
+	@echo  '  htmldocs        - HTML'
+	@echo  '  pdfdocs         - PDF'
+	@echo  '  epubdocs        - EPUB'
+	@echo  '  xmldocs         - XML'
+	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated files'
+
+endif # HAVE_SPHINX

Documentation/bcache.txt

-Say you've got a big slow raid 6, and an X-25E or three. Wouldn't it be
+Say you've got a big slow raid 6, and an ssd or three. Wouldn't it be
 nice if you could use them as cache... Hence bcache.
 
 Wiki and git repositories are at:
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Wiki and git repositories are at:
 
 It's designed around the performance characteristics of SSDs - it only allocates
 in erase block sized buckets, and it uses a hybrid btree/log to track cached
-extants (which can be anywhere from a single sector to the bucket size). It's
+extents (which can be anywhere from a single sector to the bucket size). It's
 designed to avoid random writes at all costs; it fills up an erase block
 sequentially, then issues a discard before reusing it.
 
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ immediately.  Without udev, you can manually register devices like this:
 Registering the backing device makes the bcache device show up in /dev; you can
 now format it and use it as normal. But the first time using a new bcache
 device, it'll be running in passthrough mode until you attach it to a cache.
-See the section on attaching.
+If you are thinking about using bcache later, it is recommended to setup all your
+slow devices as bcache backing devices without a cache, and you can choose to add
+a caching device later.
+See 'ATTACHING' section below.
 
 The devices show up as:
 
@@ -72,12 +75,14 @@ To get started:
   mount /dev/bcache0 /mnt
 
 You can control bcache devices through sysfs at /sys/block/bcache<N>/bcache .
+You can also control them through /sys/fs//bcache/<cset-uuid>/ .
 
 Cache devices are managed as sets; multiple caches per set isn't supported yet
 but will allow for mirroring of metadata and dirty data in the future. Your new
 cache set shows up as /sys/fs/bcache/<UUID>
 
-ATTACHING:
+ATTACHING
+---------
 
 After your cache device and backing device are registered, the backing device
 must be attached to your cache set to enable caching. Attaching a backing
@@ -105,7 +110,8 @@ but all the cached data will be invalidated. If there was dirty data in the
 cache, don't expect the filesystem to be recoverable - you will have massive
 filesystem corruption, though ext4's fsck does work miracles.
 
-ERROR HANDLING:
+ERROR HANDLING
+--------------
 
 Bcache tries to transparently handle IO errors to/from the cache device without
 affecting normal operation; if it sees too many errors (the threshold is
@@ -127,12 +133,181 @@ the backing devices to passthrough mode.
    writeback mode). It currently doesn't do anything intelligent if it fails to
    read some of the dirty data, though.
 
-TROUBLESHOOTING PERFORMANCE:
+
+HOWTO/COOKBOOK
+--------------
+
+A) Starting a bcache with a missing caching device
+
+If registering the backing device doesn't help, it's already there, you just need
+to force it to run without the cache:
+	host:~# echo /dev/sdb1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
+	[  119.844831] bcache: register_bcache() error opening /dev/sdb1: device already registered
+
+Next, you try to register your caching device if it's present. However
+if it's absent, or registration fails for some reason, you can still
+start your bcache without its cache, like so:
+	host:/sys/block/sdb/sdb1/bcache# echo 1 > running
+
+Note that this may cause data loss if you were running in writeback mode.
+
+
+B) Bcache does not find its cache
+
+	host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8 > attach
+	[ 1933.455082] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Couldn't find uuid for md5 in set
+	[ 1933.478179] bcache: __cached_dev_store() Can't attach 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8
+	[ 1933.478179] : cache set not found
+
+In this case, the caching device was simply not registered at boot
+or disappeared and came back, and needs to be (re-)registered:
+	host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo /dev/sdh2 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
+
+
+C) Corrupt bcache crashes the kernel at device registration time:
+
+This should never happen.  If it does happen, then you have found a bug!
+Please report it to the bcache development list: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
+
+Be sure to provide as much information that you can including kernel dmesg
+output if available so that we may assist.
+
+
+D) Recovering data without bcache:
+
+If bcache is not available in the kernel, a filesystem on the backing
+device is still available at an 8KiB offset. So either via a loopdev
+of the backing device created with --offset 8K, or any value defined by
+--data-offset when you originally formatted bcache with `make-bcache`.
+
+For example:
+	losetup -o 8192 /dev/loop0 /dev/your_bcache_backing_dev
+
+This should present your unmodified backing device data in /dev/loop0
+
+If your cache is in writethrough mode, then you can safely discard the
+cache device without loosing data.
+
+
+E) Wiping a cache device
+
+host:~# wipefs -a /dev/sdh2
+16 bytes were erased at offset 0x1018 (bcache)
+they were: c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81
+
+After you boot back with bcache enabled, you recreate the cache and attach it:
+host:~# make-bcache -C /dev/sdh2
+UUID:                   7be7e175-8f4c-4f99-94b2-9c904d227045
+Set UUID:               5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1
+version:                0
+nbuckets:               106874
+block_size:             1
+bucket_size:            1024
+nr_in_set:              1
+nr_this_dev:            0
+first_bucket:           1
+[  650.511912] bcache: run_cache_set() invalidating existing data
+[  650.549228] bcache: register_cache() registered cache device sdh2
+
+start backing device with missing cache:
+host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 1 > running
+
+attach new cache:
+host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 > attach
+[  865.276616] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Caching md5 as bcache0 on set 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1
+
+
+F) Remove or replace a caching device
+
+	host:/sys/block/sda/sda7/bcache# echo 1 > detach
+	[  695.872542] bcache: cached_dev_detach_finish() Caching disabled for sda7
+
+	host:~# wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1p4
+	wipefs: error: /dev/nvme0n1p4: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy
+	Ooops, it's disabled, but not unregistered, so it's still protected
+
+We need to go and unregister it:
+	host:/sys/fs/bcache/b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128# ls -l cache0
+	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 25 18:33 cache0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:70:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p4/bcache/
+	host:/sys/fs/bcache/b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128# echo 1 > stop
+	kernel: [  917.041908] bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128 unregistered
+
+Now we can wipe it:
+	host:~# wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1p4
+	/dev/nvme0n1p4: 16 bytes were erased at offset 0x00001018 (bcache): c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81
+
+
+G) dm-crypt and bcache
+
+First setup bcache unencrypted and then install dmcrypt on top of
+/dev/bcache<N> This will work faster than if you dmcrypt both the backing
+and caching devices and then install bcache on top. [benchmarks?]
+
+
+H) Stop/free a registered bcache to wipe and/or recreate it
+
+Suppose that you need to free up all bcache references so that you can
+fdisk run and re-register a changed partition table, which won't work
+if there are any active backing or caching devices left on it:
+
+1) Is it present in /dev/bcache* ? (there are times where it won't be)
+
+If so, it's easy:
+	host:/sys/block/bcache0/bcache# echo 1 > stop
+
+2) But if your backing device is gone, this won't work:
+	host:/sys/block/bcache0# cd bcache
+	bash: cd: bcache: No such file or directory
+
+In this case, you may have to unregister the dmcrypt block device that
+references this bcache to free it up:
+	host:~# dmsetup remove oldds1
+	bcache: bcache_device_free() bcache0 stopped
+	bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 unregistered
+
+This causes the backing bcache to be removed from /sys/fs/bcache and
+then it can be reused.  This would be true of any block device stacking
+where bcache is a lower device.
+
+3) In other cases, you can also look in /sys/fs/bcache/:
+
+host:/sys/fs/bcache# ls -l */{cache?,bdev?}
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar  5 09:39 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8/bdev1 -> ../../../devices/virtual/block/dm-1/bcache/
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar  5 09:39 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8/cache0 -> ../../../devices/virtual/block/dm-4/bcache/
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar  5 09:39 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1/cache0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/ata10/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0/block/sdl/sdl2/bcache/
+
+The device names will show which UUID is relevant, cd in that directory
+and stop the cache:
+	host:/sys/fs/bcache/5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1# echo 1 > stop
+
+This will free up bcache references and let you reuse the partition for
+other purposes.
+
+
+
+TROUBLESHOOTING PERFORMANCE
+---------------------------
 
 Bcache has a bunch of config options and tunables. The defaults are intended to
 be reasonable for typical desktop and server workloads, but they're not what you
 want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking.
 
+ - Backing device alignment
+
+   The default metadata size in bcache is 8k.  If your backing device is
+   RAID based, then be sure to align this by a multiple of your stride
+   width using `make-bcache --data-offset`. If you intend to expand your
+   disk array in the future, then multiply a series of primes by your
+   raid stripe size to get the disk multiples that you would like.
+
+   For example:  If you have a 64k stripe size, then the following offset
+   would provide alignment for many common RAID5 data spindle counts:
+	64k * 2*2*2*3*3*5*7 bytes = 161280k
+
+   That space is wasted, but for only 157.5MB you can grow your RAID 5
+   volume to the following data-spindle counts without re-aligning:
+	3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14,15,18,20,21 ...
+
  - Bad write performance
 
    If write performance is not what you expected, you probably wanted to be
@@ -140,7 +315,7 @@ want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking.
    maturity, but simply because in writeback mode you'll lose data if something
    happens to your SSD)
 
-   # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/cache_mode
+   # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode
 
  - Bad performance, or traffic not going to the SSD that you'd expect
 
@@ -193,7 +368,9 @@ want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking.
    Solution: warm the cache by doing writes, or use the testing branch (there's
    a fix for the issue there).
 
-SYSFS - BACKING DEVICE:
+
+SYSFS - BACKING DEVICE
+----------------------
 
 Available at /sys/block/<bdev>/bcache, /sys/block/bcache*/bcache and
 (if attached) /sys/fs/bcache/<cset-uuid>/bdev*
@@ -238,7 +415,7 @@ sequential_merge
   against all new requests to determine which new requests are sequential
   continuations of previous requests for the purpose of determining sequential
   cutoff. This is necessary if the sequential cutoff value is greater than the
-  maximum acceptable sequential size for any single request. 
+  maximum acceptable sequential size for any single request.
 
 state
   The backing device can be in one of four different states:
@@ -325,7 +502,7 @@ bucket_size
   Size of buckets
 
 cache<0..n>
-  Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set. 
+  Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
 
 cache_available_percent
   Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could

Documentation/conf.py

+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# The Linux Kernel documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('sphinx'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = ['kernel-doc', 'rstFlatTable']
+
+# Gracefully handle missing rst2pdf.
+try:
+    import rst2pdf
+    extensions += ['rst2pdf.pdfbuilder']
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = 'The Linux Kernel'
+copyright = '2016, The kernel development community'
+author = 'The kernel development community'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# In a normal build, version and release are are set to KERNELVERSION and
+# KERNELRELEASE, respectively, from the Makefile via Sphinx command line
+# arguments.
+#
+# The following code tries to extract the information by reading the Makefile,
+# when Sphinx is run directly (e.g. by Read the Docs).
+try:
+    makefile_version = None
+    makefile_patchlevel = None
+    for line in open('../Makefile'):
+        key, val = [x.strip() for x in line.split('=', 2)]
+        if key == 'VERSION':
+            makefile_version = val
+        elif key == 'PATCHLEVEL':
+            makefile_patchlevel = val
+        if makefile_version and makefile_patchlevel:
+            break
+except:
+    pass
+finally:
+    if makefile_version and makefile_patchlevel:
+        version = release = makefile_version + '.' + makefile_patchlevel
+    else:
+        sys.stderr.write('Warning: Could not extract kernel version\n')
+        version = release = "unknown version"
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = ['output']
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+#show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+#modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+#keep_warnings = False
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = False
+
+primary_domain = 'C'
+highlight_language = 'C'
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+
+# The Read the Docs theme is available from
+# - https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme
+# - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx_rtd_theme
+# - python-sphinx-rtd-theme package (on Debian)
+try:
+    import sphinx_rtd_theme
+    html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
+    html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]
+except ImportError:
+    sys.stderr.write('Warning: The Sphinx \'sphinx_rtd_theme\' HTML theme was not found. Make sure you have the theme installed to produce pretty HTML output. Falling back to the default theme.\n')
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = []
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+#html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+#html_extra_path = []
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#html_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#html_use_index = True
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Language to be used for generating the HTML full-text search index.
+# Sphinx supports the following languages:
+#   'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'h', 'it', 'ja'
+#   'nl', 'no', 'pt', 'ro', 'r', 'sv', 'tr'
+#html_search_language = 'en'
+
+# A dictionary with options for the search language support, empty by default.
+# Now only 'ja' uses this config value
+#html_search_options = {'type': 'default'}
+
+# The name of a javascript file (relative to the configuration directory) that
+# implements a search results scorer. If empty, the default will be used.
+#html_search_scorer = 'scorer.js'
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'TheLinuxKerneldoc'
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+#'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+#'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#'preamble': '',
+
+# Latex figure (float) alignment
+#'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'TheLinuxKernel.tex', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
+     'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+#latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+#latex_use_parts = False
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+#latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#latex_domain_indices = True
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    (master_doc, 'thelinuxkernel', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
+     [author], 1)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#man_show_urls = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'TheLinuxKernel', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
+     author, 'TheLinuxKernel', 'One line description of project.',
+     'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
+#texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Epub output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# Bibliographic Dublin Core info.
+epub_title = project
+epub_author = author
+epub_publisher = author
+epub_copyright = copyright
+
+# The basename for the epub file. It defaults to the project name.
+#epub_basename = project
+
+# The HTML theme for the epub output. Since the default themes are not
+# optimized for small screen space, using the same theme for HTML and epub
+# output is usually not wise. This defaults to 'epub', a theme designed to save
+# visual space.
+#epub_theme = 'epub'
+
+# The language of the text. It defaults to the language option
+# or 'en' if the language is not set.
+#epub_language = ''
+
+# The scheme of the identifier. Typical schemes are ISBN or URL.
+#epub_scheme = ''
+
+# The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number
+# or the project homepage.
+#epub_identifier = ''
+
+# A unique identification for the text.
+#epub_uid = ''
+
+# A tuple containing the cover image and cover page html template filenames.
+#epub_cover = ()
+
+# A sequence of (type, uri, title) tuples for the guide element of content.opf.
+#epub_guide = ()
+
+# HTML files that should be inserted before the pages created by sphinx.
+# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title.
+#epub_pre_files = []
+
+# HTML files that should be inserted after the pages created by sphinx.
+# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title.
+#epub_post_files = []
+
+# A list of files that should not be packed into the epub file.
+epub_exclude_files = ['search.html']
+
+# The depth of the table of contents in toc.ncx.
+#epub_tocdepth = 3
+
+# Allow duplicate toc entries.
+#epub_tocdup = True
+
+# Choose between 'default' and 'includehidden'.
+#epub_tocscope = 'default'
+
+# Fix unsupported image types using the Pillow.
+#epub_fix_images = False
+
+# Scale large images.
+#epub_max_image_width = 0
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+#epub_show_urls = 'inline'
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#epub_use_index = True
+
+#=======
+# rst2pdf
+#
+# Grouping the document tree into PDF files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author, options).
+#
+# See the Sphinx chapter of http://ralsina.me/static/manual.pdf
+#
+# FIXME: Do not add the index file here; the result will be too big. Adding
+# multiple PDF files here actually tries to get the cross-referencing right
+# *between* PDF files.
+pdf_documents = [
+    ('index', u'Kernel', u'Kernel', u'J. Random Bozo'),
+]
+
+# kernel-doc extension configuration for running Sphinx directly (e.g. by Read
+# the Docs). In a normal build, these are supplied from the Makefile via command
+# line arguments.
+kerneldoc_bin = '../scripts/kernel-doc'
+kerneldoc_srctree = '..'

Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt

@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ supported.
    * device_resume
      - Resumes a transfer on the channel
      - This command should operate synchronously on the channel,
-       pausing right away the work of the given channel
+       resuming right away the work of the given channel
 
    * device_terminate_all
      - Aborts all the pending and ongoing transfers on the channel

Documentation/index.rst

+.. The Linux Kernel documentation master file, created by
+   sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
+   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
+   contain the root `toctree` directive.
+
+Welcome to The Linux Kernel's documentation!
+============================================
+
+Nothing for you to see here *yet*. Please move along.
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   kernel-documentation
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`search`

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -3992,8 +3992,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	trace_event=[event-list]
 			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
-			to facilitate early boot debugging.
-			See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
+			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
+			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
+			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
 
 	trace_options=[option-list]
 			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.

Documentation/md.txt

@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ These currently include
 
   stripe_cache_size  (currently raid5 only)
       number of entries in the stripe cache.  This is writable, but
-      there are upper and lower limits (32768, 16).  Default is 128.
+      there are upper and lower limits (32768, 17).  Default is 256.
   strip_cache_active (currently raid5 only)
       number of active entries in the stripe cache
   preread_bypass_threshold (currently raid5 only)

Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c

@@ -1538,9 +1538,9 @@ set_cmdline(struct mic_info *mic)
 
 	len = snprintf(buffer, PATH_MAX,
 		"clocksource=tsc highres=off nohz=off ");
-	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX,
+	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX - len,
 		"cpufreq_on;corec6_off;pc3_off;pc6_off ");
-	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX,
+	len += snprintf(buffer + len, PATH_MAX - len,
 		"ifcfg=static;address,172.31.%d.1;netmask,255.255.255.0",
 		mic->id + 1);
 

Documentation/security/self-protection.txt

@@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ provide meaningful defenses.
 ### Canaries, blinding, and other secrets
 
 It should be noted that things like the stack canary discussed earlier
-are technically statistical defenses, since they rely on a (leakable)
-secret value.
+are technically statistical defenses, since they rely on a secret value,
+and such values may become discoverable through an information exposure
+flaw.
 
 Blinding literal values for things like JITs, where the executable
 contents may be partially under the control of userspace, need a similar
@@ -199,8 +200,8 @@ working?) in order to maximize their success.
 Since the location of kernel memory is almost always instrumental in
 mounting a successful attack, making the location non-deterministic
 raises the difficulty of an exploit. (Note that this in turn makes
-the value of leaks higher, since they may be used to discover desired
-memory locations.)
+the value of information exposures higher, since they may be used to
+discover desired memory locations.)
 
 #### Text and module base
 
@@ -222,14 +223,21 @@ become more difficult to locate.
 Much of the kernel's dynamic memory (e.g. kmalloc, vmalloc, etc) ends up
 being relatively deterministic in layout due to the order of early-boot
 initializations. If the base address of these areas is not the same
-between boots, targeting them is frustrated, requiring a leak specific
-to the region.
+between boots, targeting them is frustrated, requiring an information
+exposure specific to the region.
+
+#### Structure layout
+
+By performing a per-build randomization of the layout of sensitive
+structures, attacks must either be tuned to known kernel builds or expose
+enough kernel memory to determine structure layouts before manipulating
+them.
 
 
-## Preventing Leaks
+## Preventing Information Exposures
 
 Since the locations of sensitive structures are the primary target for
-attacks, it is important to defend against leaks of both kernel memory
+attacks, it is important to defend against exposure of both kernel memory
 addresses and kernel memory contents (since they may contain kernel
 addresses or other sensitive things like canary values).
 
@@ -250,8 +258,8 @@ sure structure holes are cleared.
 When releasing memory, it is best to poison the contents (clear stack on
 syscall return, wipe heap memory on a free), to avoid reuse attacks that
 rely on the old contents of memory. This frustrates many uninitialized
-variable attacks, stack info leaks, heap info leaks, and use-after-free
-attacks.
+variable attacks, stack content exposures, heap content exposures, and
+use-after-free attacks.
 
 ### Destination tracking
 

Documentation/sphinx/convert_template.sed

+#
+# Pandoc doesn't grok <function> or <structname>, so convert them
+# ahead of time.
+#
+# Use the following escapes to pass through pandoc:
+#	$bq = "`"
+#	$lt = "<"
+#	$gt = ">"
+#
+s%<function>\([^<(]\+\)()</function>%:c:func:$bq\1()$bq%g
+s%<function>\([^<(]\+\)</function>%:c:func:$bq\1()$bq%g
+s%<structname>struct *\([^<]\+\)</structname>%:c:type:$bqstruct \1 $lt\1$gt$bq%g
+s%struct <structname>\([^<]\+\)</structname>%:c:type:$bqstruct \1 $lt\1$gt$bq%g
+s%<structname>\([^<]\+\)</structname>%:c:type:$bqstruct \1 $lt\1$gt$bq%g
+#
+# Wrap docproc directives in para and code blocks.
+#
+s%^\(!.*\)$%<para><code>DOCPROC: \1</code></para>%

Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py

+# coding=utf-8
+#
+# Copyright © 2016 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+# paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+# Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+# IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Authors:
+#    Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
+#
+# Please make sure this works on both python2 and python3.
+#
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import re
+import glob
+
+from docutils import nodes, statemachine
+from docutils.statemachine import ViewList
+from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
+from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
+
+class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
+    """Extract kernel-doc comments from the specified file"""
+    required_argument = 1
+    optional_arguments = 4
+    option_spec = {
+        'doc': directives.unchanged_required,
+        'functions': directives.unchanged_required,
+        'export': directives.unchanged,
+        'internal': directives.unchanged,
+    }
+    has_content = False
+
+    def run(self):
+        env = self.state.document.settings.env
+        cmd = [env.config.kerneldoc_bin, '-rst', '-enable-lineno']
+
+        filename = env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + self.arguments[0]
+        export_file_patterns = []
+
+        # Tell sphinx of the dependency
+        env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(filename))
+
+        tab_width = self.options.get('tab-width', self.state.document.settings.tab_width)
+
+        # FIXME: make this nicer and more robust against errors
+        if 'export' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-export']
+            export_file_patterns = str(self.options.get('export')).split()
+        elif 'internal' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-internal']
+            export_file_patterns = str(self.options.get('internal')).split()
+        elif 'doc' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-function', str(self.options.get('doc'))]
+        elif 'functions' in self.options:
+            for f in str(self.options.get('functions')).split():
+                cmd += ['-function', f]
+
+        for pattern in export_file_patterns:
+            for f in glob.glob(env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + pattern):
+                env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(f))
+                cmd += ['-export-file', f]
+
+        cmd += [filename]
+
+        try:
+            env.app.verbose('calling kernel-doc \'%s\'' % (" ".join(cmd)))
+
+            p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
+            out, err = p.communicate()
+
+            # python2 needs conversion to unicode.
+            # python3 with universal_newlines=True returns strings.
+            if sys.version_info.major < 3:
+                out, err = unicode(out, 'utf-8'), unicode(err, 'utf-8')
+
+            if p.returncode != 0:
+                sys.stderr.write(err)
+
+                env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' failed with return code %d' % (" ".join(cmd), p.returncode))
+                return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))]
+            elif env.config.kerneldoc_verbosity > 0:
+                sys.stderr.write(err)
+
+            lines = statemachine.string2lines(out, tab_width, convert_whitespace=True)
+            result = ViewList()
+
+            lineoffset = 0;
+            line_regex = re.compile("^#define LINENO ([0-9]+)$")
+            for line in lines:
+                match = line_regex.search(line)
+                if match:
+                    # sphinx counts lines from 0
+                    lineoffset = int(match.group(1)) - 1
+                    # we must eat our comments since the upset the markup
+                else:
+                    result.append(line, filename, lineoffset)
+                    lineoffset += 1
+
+            node = nodes.section()
+            node.document = self.state.document
+            self.state.nested_parse(result, self.content_offset, node)
+
+            return node.children
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' processing failed with: %s' %
+                         (" ".join(cmd), str(e)))
+            return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))]
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_bin', None, 'env')
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_srctree', None, 'env')
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_verbosity', 1, 'env')
+
+    app.add_directive('kernel-doc', KernelDocDirective)

Documentation/sphinx/post_convert.sed

+#
+# Unescape.
+#
+s/$bq/`/g
+s/$lt/</g
+s/$gt/>/g
+#
+# pandoc thinks that both "_" needs to be escaped.  Remove the extra
+# backslashes.
+#
+s/\\_/_/g
+#
+# Unwrap docproc directives.
+#
+s/^``DOCPROC: !E\(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :export:/
+s/^``DOCPROC: !I\(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :internal:/
+s/^``DOCPROC: !F\([^ ]*\) \(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :functions: \2/
+s/^``DOCPROC: !P\([^ ]*\) \(.*\)``$/.. kernel-doc:: \1\n   :doc: \2/
+s/^``DOCPROC: \(!.*\)``$/.. WARNING: DOCPROC directive not supported: \1/
+#
+# Trim trailing whitespace.
+#
+s/[[:space:]]*$//

Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+# pylint: disable=C0330, R0903, R0912
+
+u"""
+    flat-table
+    ~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Implementation of the ``flat-table`` reST-directive.
+
+    :copyright:  Copyright (C) 2016  Markus Heiser
+    :license:    GPL Version 2, June 1991 see linux/COPYING for details.
+
+    The ``flat-table`` (:py:class:`FlatTable`) is a double-stage list similar to
+    the ``list-table`` with some additional features:
+
+    * *column-span*: with the role ``cspan`` a cell can be extended through
+      additional columns
+
+    * *row-span*: with the role ``rspan`` a cell can be extended through
+      additional rows
+
+    * *auto span* rightmost cell of a table row over the missing cells on the
+      right side of that table-row.  With Option ``:fill-cells:`` this behavior
+      can changed from *auto span* to *auto fill*, which automaticly inserts
+      (empty) cells instead of spanning the last cell.
+
+    Options:
+
+    * header-rows:   [int] count of header rows
+    * stub-columns:  [int] count of stub columns
+    * widths:        [[int] [int] ... ] widths of columns
+    * fill-cells:    instead of autospann missing cells, insert missing cells
+
+    roles:
+
+    * cspan: [int] additionale columns (*morecols*)
+    * rspan: [int] additionale rows (*morerows*)
+"""
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# imports
+# ==============================================================================
+
+import sys
+
+from docutils import nodes
+from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, roles
+from docutils.parsers.rst.directives.tables import Table
+from docutils.utils import SystemMessagePropagation
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# common globals
+# ==============================================================================
+
+# The version numbering follows numbering of the specification
+# (Documentation/books/kernel-doc-HOWTO).
+__version__  = '1.0'
+
+PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
+PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2
+
+if PY3:
+    # pylint: disable=C0103, W0622
+    unicode     = str
+    basestring  = str
+
+# ==============================================================================
+def setup(app):
+# ==============================================================================
+
+    app.add_directive("flat-table", FlatTable)
+    roles.register_local_role('cspan', c_span)
+    roles.register_local_role('rspan', r_span)
+
+# ==============================================================================
+def c_span(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options=None, content=None):
+# ==============================================================================
+    # pylint: disable=W0613
+
+    options  = options if options is not None else {}
+    content  = content if content is not None else []
+    nodelist = [colSpan(span=int(text))]
+    msglist  = []
+    return nodelist, msglist
+
+# ==============================================================================
+def r_span(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options=None, content=None):
+# ==============================================================================
+    # pylint: disable=W0613
+
+    options  = options if options is not None else {}
+    content  = content if content is not None else []
+    nodelist = [rowSpan(span=int(text))]
+    msglist  = []
+    return nodelist, msglist
+
+
+# ==============================================================================
+class rowSpan(nodes.General, nodes.Element): pass # pylint: disable=C0103,C0321
+class colSpan(nodes.General, nodes.Element): pass # pylint: disable=C0103,C0321
+# ==============================================================================
+
+# ==============================================================================
+class FlatTable(Table):
+# ==============================================================================
+
+    u"""FlatTable (``flat-table``) directive"""
+
+    option_spec = {
+        'name': directives.unchanged
+        , 'class': directives.class_option
+        , 'header-rows': directives.nonnegative_int
+        , 'stub-columns': directives.nonnegative_int
+        , 'widths': directives.positive_int_list
+        , 'fill-cells' : directives.flag }
+
+    def run(self):
+
+        if not self.content:
+            error = self.state_machine.reporter.error(
+                'The "%s" directive is empty; content required.' % self.name,
+                nodes.literal_block(self.block_text, self.block_text),
+                line=self.lineno)
+            return [error]
+
+        title, messages = self.make_title()
+        node = nodes.Element()          # anonymous container for parsing
+        self.state.nested_parse(self.content, self.content_offset, node)
+
+        tableBuilder = ListTableBuilder(self)
+        tableBuilder.parseFlatTableNode(node)
+        tableNode = tableBuilder.buildTableNode()
+        # SDK.CONSOLE()  # print --> tableNode.asdom().toprettyxml()
+        if title:
+            tableNode.insert(0, title)
+        return [tableNode] + messages
+
+
+# ==============================================================================
+class ListTableBuilder(object):
+# ==============================================================================
+
+    u"""Builds a table from a double-stage list"""
+
+    def __init__(self, directive):
+        self.directive = directive
+        self.rows      = []
+        self.max_cols  = 0
+
+    def buildTableNode(self):
+
+        colwidths    = self.directive.get_column_widths(self.max_cols)
+        stub_columns = self.directive.options.get('stub-columns', 0)
+        header_rows  = self.directive.options.get('header-rows', 0)
+
+        table = nodes.table()
+        tgroup = nodes.tgroup(cols=len(colwidths))
+        table += tgroup
+
+
+        for colwidth in colwidths:
+            colspec = nodes.colspec(colwidth=colwidth)
+            # FIXME: It seems, that the stub method only works well in the
+            # absence of rowspan (observed by the html buidler, the docutils-xml
+            # build seems OK).  This is not extraordinary, because there exists
+            # no table directive (except *this* flat-table) which allows to
+            # define coexistent of rowspan and stubs (there was no use-case
+            # before flat-table). This should be reviewed (later).
+            if stub_columns:
+                colspec.attributes['stub'] = 1
+                stub_columns -= 1
+            tgroup += colspec
+        stub_columns = self.directive.options.get('stub-columns', 0)
+
+        if header_rows:
+            thead = nodes.thead()
+            tgroup += thead
+            for row in self.rows[:header_rows]:
+                thead += self.buildTableRowNode(row)
+
+        tbody = nodes.tbody()
+        tgroup += tbody
+
+        for row in self.rows[header_rows:]:
+            tbody += self.buildTableRowNode(row)
+        return table
+
+    def buildTableRowNode(self, row_data, classes=None):
+        classes = [] if classes is None else classes
+        row = nodes.row()
+        for cell in row_data:
+            if cell is None:
+                continue
+            cspan, rspan, cellElements = cell
+
+            attributes = {"classes" : classes}
+            if rspan:
+                attributes['morerows'] = rspan
+            if cspan:
+                attributes['morecols'] = cspan
+            entry = nodes.entry(**attributes)
+            entry.extend(cellElements)
+            row += entry
+        return row
+
+    def raiseError(self, msg):
+        error =  self.directive.state_machine.reporter.error(
+            msg
+            , nodes.literal_block(self.directive.block_text
+                                  , self.directive.block_text)
+            , line = self.directive.lineno )
+        raise SystemMessagePropagation(error)
+
+    def parseFlatTableNode(self, node):
+        u"""parses the node from a :py:class:`FlatTable` directive's body"""
+
+        if len(node) != 1 or not isinstance(node[0], nodes.bullet_list):
+            self.raiseError(
+                'Error parsing content block for the "%s" directive: '
+                'exactly one bullet list expected.' % self.directive.name )
+
+        for rowNum, rowItem in enumerate(node[0]):
+            row = self.parseRowItem(rowItem, rowNum)
+            self.rows.append(row)
+        self.roundOffTableDefinition()
+
+    def roundOffTableDefinition(self):
+        u"""Round off the table definition.
+
+        This method rounds off the table definition in :py:member:`rows`.
+
+        * This method inserts the needed ``None`` values for the missing cells
+        arising from spanning cells over rows and/or columns.
+
+        * recount the :py:member:`max_cols`
+
+        * Autospan or fill (option ``fill-cells``) missing cells on the right
+          side of the table-row
+        """
+
+        y = 0
+        while y < len(self.rows):
+            x = 0
+
+            while x < len(self.rows[y]):
+                cell = self.rows[y][x]
+                if cell is None:
+                    x += 1
+                    continue
+                cspan, rspan = cell[:2]
+                # handle colspan in current row
+                for c in range(cspan):
+                    try:
+                        self.rows[y].insert(x+c+1, None)
+                    except: # pylint: disable=W0702
+                        # the user sets ambiguous rowspans
+                        pass # SDK.CONSOLE()
+                # handle colspan in spanned rows
+                for r in range(rspan):
+                    for c in range(cspan + 1):
+                        try:
+                            self.rows[y+r+1].insert(x+c, None)
+                        except: # pylint: disable=W0702
+                            # the user sets ambiguous rowspans
+                            pass # SDK.CONSOLE()
+                x += 1
+            y += 1
+
+        # Insert the missing cells on the right side. For this, first
+        # re-calculate the max columns.
+
+        for row in self.rows:
+            if self.max_cols < len(row):
+                self.max_cols = len(row)
+
+        # fill with empty cells or cellspan?
+
+        fill_cells = False
+        if 'fill-cells' in self.directive.options:
+            fill_cells = True
+
+        for row in self.rows:
+            x =  self.max_cols - len(row)
+            if x and not fill_cells:
+                if row[-1] is None:
+                    row.append( ( x - 1, 0, []) )
+                else:
+                    cspan, rspan, content = row[-1]
+                    row[-1] = (cspan + x, rspan, content)
+            elif x and fill_cells:
+                for i in range(x):
+                    row.append( (0, 0, nodes.comment()) )
+
+    def pprint(self):
+        # for debugging
+        retVal = "[   "
+        for row in self.rows:
+            retVal += "[ "
+            for col in row:
+                if col is None:
+                    retVal += ('%r' % col)
+                    retVal += "\n    , "
+                else:
+                    content = col[2][0].astext()
+                    if len (content) > 30:
+                        content = content[:30] + "..."
+                    retVal += ('(cspan=%s, rspan=%s, %r)'
+                               % (col[0], col[1], content))
+                    retVal += "]\n    , "
+            retVal = retVal[:-2]
+            retVal += "]\n  , "
+        retVal = retVal[:-2]
+        return retVal + "]"
+
+    def parseRowItem(self, rowItem, rowNum):
+        row = []
+        childNo = 0
+        error   = False
+        cell    = None
+        target  = None
+
+        for child in rowItem:
+            if (isinstance(child , nodes.comment)
+                or isinstance(child, nodes.system_message)):
+                pass
+            elif isinstance(child , nodes.target):
+                target = child
+            elif isinstance(child, nodes.bullet_list):
+                childNo += 1
+                cell = child
+            else:
+                error = True
+                break
+
+        if childNo != 1 or error:
+            self.raiseError(
+                'Error parsing content block for the "%s" directive: '
+                'two-level bullet list expected, but row %s does not '
+                'contain a second-level bullet list.'
+                % (self.directive.name, rowNum + 1))
+
+        for cellItem in cell:
+            cspan, rspan, cellElements = self.parseCellItem(cellItem)
+            if target is not None:
+                cellElements.insert(0, target)
+            row.append( (cspan, rspan, cellElements) )
+        return row
+
+    def parseCellItem(self, cellItem):
+        # search and remove cspan, rspan colspec from the first element in
+        # this listItem (field).
+        cspan = rspan = 0
+        if not len(cellItem):
+            return cspan, rspan, []
+        for elem in cellItem[0]:
+            if isinstance(elem, colSpan):
+                cspan = elem.get("span")
+                elem.parent.remove(elem)
+                continue
+            if isinstance(elem, rowSpan):
+                rspan = elem.get("span")
+                elem.parent.remove(elem)
+                continue
+        return cspan, rspan, cellItem[:]

Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt

+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Convert a template file into something like RST
+#
+# fix <function>
+# feed to pandoc
+# fix \_
+# title line?
+#
+
+in=$1
+rst=$2
+tmp=$rst.tmp
+
+cp $in $tmp
+sed --in-place -f convert_template.sed $tmp
+pandoc -s -S -f docbook -t rst -o $rst $tmp
+sed --in-place -f post_convert.sed $rst
+rm $tmp

Documentation/sync_file.txt

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 This document serves as a guide for device drivers writers on what the
 sync_file API is, and how drivers can support it. Sync file is the carrier of
-the fences(struct fence) that needs to synchronized between drivers or across
-process boundaries.
+the fences(struct fence) that are needed to synchronize between drivers or
+across process boundaries.
 
 The sync_file API is meant to be used to send and receive fence information
 to/from userspace. It enables userspace to do explicit fencing, where instead
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ in-fences and out-fences
 Sync files can go either to or from userspace. When a sync_file is sent from
 the driver to userspace we call the fences it contains 'out-fences'. They are
 related to a buffer that the driver is processing or is going to process, so
-the driver an create out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
+the driver creates an out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
 when it has finished using (or processing) that buffer. Out-fences are fences
 that the driver creates.
 

Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ time is considered largely as a non-causal system where its behavior
 cannot be based on the past or current input. Therefore, the
 intel_powerclamp driver attempts to enforce the desired idle time
 instantly as given input (target idle ratio). After injection,
-powerclamp moniors the actual idle for a given time window and adjust
+powerclamp monitors the actual idle for a given time window and adjust
 the next injection accordingly to avoid over/under correction.
 
 When used in a causal control system, such as a temperature control,

Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ configuration with CDC ECM which should work better under Linux.
 
 ** Windows host drivers
 
-For the gadget two work under Windows two conditions have to be met:
+For the gadget to work under Windows two conditions have to be met:
 
 *** Detecting as composite gadget
 

Makefile

@@ -1364,6 +1364,8 @@ help:
 	@$(MAKE) $(build)=$(package-dir) help
 	@echo  ''
 	@echo  'Documentation targets:'
+	@$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx dochelp
+	@echo  ''
 	@$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile dochelp
 	@echo  ''
 	@echo  'Architecture specific targets ($(SRCARCH)):'
@@ -1412,8 +1414,11 @@ $(help-board-dirs): help-%:
 
 # Documentation targets
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-%docs: scripts_basic FORCE
+DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs epubdocs cleandocs
+PHONY += $(DOC_TARGETS)
+$(DOC_TARGETS): scripts_basic FORCE
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts build_docproc build_check-lc_ctype
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation -f $(srctree)/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx $@
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation/DocBook $@
 
 else # KBUILD_EXTMOD