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Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -06001The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -03003
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -06004The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
5added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
6organization here this material was not written to be a single, coherent
7document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
8
9This initial section contains overall information, including the README
10file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab337c1882016-11-07 17:03:18 -020011etc.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -030012
13.. toctree::
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060014 :maxdepth: 1
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -030015
16 README
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060017 kernel-parameters
18 devices
Mauro Carvalho Chehab57043242019-04-22 16:48:00 -030019 sysctl/index
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060020
Thomas Gleixner65fd4cb2019-02-19 11:10:49 +010021This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
Thomas Gleixner3ec8ce52018-07-13 16:23:26 +020022
23.. toctree::
24 :maxdepth: 1
25
Thomas Gleixner65fd4cb2019-02-19 11:10:49 +010026 hw-vuln/index
Thomas Gleixner3ec8ce52018-07-13 16:23:26 +020027
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060028Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
29problems and bugs in particular.
30
31.. toctree::
32 :maxdepth: 1
Mauro Carvalho Chehab337c1882016-11-07 17:03:18 -020033
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -030034 reporting-bugs
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060035 security-bugs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -030036 bug-hunting
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc7309042016-11-07 17:03:17 -020037 bug-bisect
Mauro Carvalho Chehab337c1882016-11-07 17:03:18 -020038 tainted-kernels
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -030039 ramoops
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9d850252016-09-21 09:51:11 -030040 dynamic-debug-howto
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060041 init
Mauro Carvalho Chehab330d4812019-06-13 15:21:39 -030042 kdump/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab59809fe2019-06-18 16:06:08 -030043 perf/index
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060044
45This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
46application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
47ABI will be found here.
48
49.. toctree::
50 :maxdepth: 1
Mauro Carvalho Chehab337c1882016-11-07 17:03:18 -020051
Jonathan Corbet7358bb22016-10-26 16:14:52 -060052 sysfs-rules
53
54The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
55configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
56
57.. toctree::
58 :maxdepth: 1
Mauro Carvalho Chehab337c1882016-11-07 17:03:18 -020059
Changbin Du680e6ff2019-04-25 23:30:54 +080060 acpi/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab83bbf6e2019-06-27 12:59:40 -030061 aoe/index
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020062 auxdisplay/index
63 bcache
64 binderfs
65 binfmt-misc
66 blockdev/index
67 braille-console
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030068 btmrvl
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020069 cgroup-v1/index
70 cgroup-v2
71 cifs/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030072 clearing-warn-once
73 cpu-load
74 cputopology
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6cf2a732019-06-18 12:40:23 -030075 device-mapper/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030076 efi-stub
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020077 ext4
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc2746a12019-06-28 08:14:42 -030078 gpio/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030079 highuid
80 hw_random
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020081 initrd
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030082 iostats
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020083 java
84 jfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030085 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9e1cbed2019-06-13 15:07:43 -030086 laptops/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030087 lcd-panel-cgram
88 ldm
89 lockup-watchdogs
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020090 LSM/index
91 md
92 mm/index
93 module-signing
94 mono
95 namespaces/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -030096 numastat
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +020097 parport
98 perf-security
99 pm/index
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -0300100 pnp
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +0200101 rapidio
102 ras
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -0300103 rtc
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +0200104 serial-console
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -0300105 svga
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +0200106 sysrq
107 thunderbolt
108 ufs
109 unicode
110 vga-softcursor
Mauro Carvalho Chehab4f4cfa62019-06-27 14:56:51 -0300111 video-output
Jonathan Neuschäfer2c1d7ff2019-10-12 19:11:09 +0200112 wimax/index
113 xfs
Markus Heiser6f2ec3a2016-10-26 08:23:16 +0200114
115.. only:: subproject and html
116
117 Indices
118 =======
119
120 * :ref:`genindex`