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authorAkira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>2022-03-30 17:41:00 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2022-04-21 02:13:52 +0300
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docs: Update RCU cross-references as suggested in doc-guide
The RCU documentation contains old-style cross references which do not follow the best practices outlined in doc-guide/sphinx.rst. In addition, some of the cross references use URLs that should be replaced by pathnames. Update all of these cross references and adjust the surrounding words. Summary of changes: - out-of-date plaintext file names (*.txt) -> *.rst - references by :ref: tags -> path names of *.rst * use relative paths to .rst files under the RCU/ subdirectory * use abs paths of Documentation/xxx for other .rst files - references by URL under https://www.kernel.org/ -> paths of *.rst - adjust surrounding words of some of updated references. Note: The automarkup.py script interprets references via "*.txt" as if they were via "*.rst", so the *.txt -> *.rst changes should be regarded as cleanups rather than bug fixes. Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.rst
index 0e03c6ef3147..3cfe01ba9a49 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.rst
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ A "grace period" must elapse between the two parts, and this grace period
must be long enough that any readers accessing the item being deleted have
since dropped their references. For example, an RCU-protected deletion
from a linked list would first remove the item from the list, wait for
-a grace period to elapse, then free the element. See the
-:ref:`Documentation/RCU/listRCU.rst <list_rcu_doc>` for more information on
-using RCU with linked lists.
+a grace period to elapse, then free the element. See listRCU.rst for more
+information on using RCU with linked lists.
Frequently Asked Questions
--------------------------
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions
- If I am running on a uniprocessor kernel, which can only do one
thing at a time, why should I wait for a grace period?
- See :ref:`Documentation/RCU/UP.rst <up_doc>` for more information.
+ See UP.rst for more information.
- How can I see where RCU is currently used in the Linux kernel?
@@ -64,13 +63,13 @@ Frequently Asked Questions
- What guidelines should I follow when writing code that uses RCU?
- See the checklist.txt file in this directory.
+ See checklist.rst.
- Why the name "RCU"?
"RCU" stands for "read-copy update".
- :ref:`Documentation/RCU/listRCU.rst <list_rcu_doc>` has more information on where
- this name came from, search for "read-copy update" to find it.
+ listRCU.rst has more information on where this name came from, search
+ for "read-copy update" to find it.
- I hear that RCU is patented? What is with that?