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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2019-05-08 18:21:19 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-05-08 23:34:09 +0300
commitac2b4687dadd4e7703c0e985f5a5a0fdaab53316 (patch)
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downloadlinux-ac2b4687dadd4e7703c0e985f5a5a0fdaab53316.tar.xz
Documentation: x86: convert kernel-stacks to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks.rst (renamed from Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks)20
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
index c855b730bab4..f6f4e0fc79f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation
boot
topology
exception-tables
+ kernel-stacks
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks.rst
index 9a0aa4d3a866..c7c7afce086f 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
+++ b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=============
+Kernel Stacks
+=============
+
Kernel stacks on x86-64 bit
----------------------------
+===========================
Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK
@@ -57,7 +63,7 @@ IST events with the same code to be nested. However in most cases, the
stack size allocated to an IST assumes no nesting for the same code.
If that assumption is ever broken then the stacks will become corrupt.
-The currently assigned IST stacks are :-
+The currently assigned IST stacks are:
* DOUBLEFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).
@@ -98,7 +104,7 @@ For more details see the Intel IA32 or AMD AMD64 architecture manuals.
Printing backtraces on x86
---------------------------
+==========================
The question about the '?' preceding function names in an x86 stacktrace
keeps popping up, here's an indepth explanation. It helps if the reader
@@ -108,7 +114,7 @@ arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c.
Adapted from Ingo's mail, Message-ID: <20150521101614.GA10889@gmail.com>:
We always scan the full kernel stack for return addresses stored on
-the kernel stack(s) [*], from stack top to stack bottom, and print out
+the kernel stack(s) [1]_, from stack top to stack bottom, and print out
anything that 'looks like' a kernel text address.
If it fits into the frame pointer chain, we print it without a question
@@ -136,6 +142,6 @@ that look like kernel text addresses, so if debug information is wrong,
we still print out the real call chain as well - just with more question
marks than ideal.
-[*] For things like IRQ and IST stacks, we also scan those stacks, in
- the right order, and try to cross from one stack into another
- reconstructing the call chain. This works most of the time.
+.. [1] For things like IRQ and IST stacks, we also scan those stacks, in
+ the right order, and try to cross from one stack into another
+ reconstructing the call chain. This works most of the time.