Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time
  around:

   - Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by
     Aishwarya Pant.

   - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du

   - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to
     make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack,
     though.

   - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits)
  Documentation/process: update FUSE project website
  docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays
  dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation
  dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible
  dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels
  Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo
  Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands
  Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format
  Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval
  COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files
  COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files
  Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface
  xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt
  char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation
  acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface
  block: rbd: update sysfs interface
  Documentation/sparse: fix typo
  Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces
  docs/vm: update 00-INDEX
  kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings
  ...

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-aoe

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+What:		/sys/block/etherd*/mac
+Date:		Apr, 2005
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.12
+Contact:	Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		(RO) The ethernet address of the remote Ata over Ethernet (AoE)
+		device.
+
+What:		/sys/block/etherd*/netif
+Date:		Apr, 2005
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.12
+Contact:	Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		(RO) The names of the network interfaces on the localhost (comma
+		separated) through which we are communicating with the remote
+		AoE device.
+
+What:		/sys/block/etherd*/state
+Date:		Apr, 2005
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.12
+Contact:	Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		(RO) Device status. The state attribute is "up" when the device
+		is ready for I/O and "down" if detected but unusable. The
+		"down,closewait" state shows that the device is still open and
+		cannot come up again until it has been closed.  The "up,kickme"
+		state means that the driver wants to send more commands to the
+		target but found out there were already the max number of
+		commands waiting for a response. It will retry again after being
+		kicked by the periodic timer handler routine.
+
+What:		/sys/block/etherd*/firmware-version
+Date:		Apr, 2005
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.12
+Contact:	Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		(RO) Version of the firmware in the target.
+
+What:		/sys/block/etherd*/payload
+Date:		Dec, 2012
+KernelVersion:	v3.10
+Contact:	Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		(RO) The amount of user data transferred (in bytes) inside each AoE
+		command on the network, network headers excluded.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-loop

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+What:		/sys/block/loopX/loop/autoclear
+Date:		Aug, 2010
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Shows if the device is in autoclear mode or not ( "1" or
+		"0"). Autoclear (if set) indicates that the loopback device will
+		self-distruct after last close.
+
+What:		/sys/block/loopX/loop/backing_file
+Date:		Aug, 2010
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The path of the backing file that the loop device maps its
+		data blocks to.
+
+What:		/sys/block/loopX/loop/offset
+Date:		Aug, 2010
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Start offset (in bytes).
+
+What:		/sys/block/loopX/loop/sizelimit
+Date:		Aug, 2010
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The size (in bytes) that the block device maps, starting
+		from the offset.
+
+What:		/sys/block/loopX/loop/partscan
+Date:		Aug, 2011
+KernelVersion:	v3.10
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Shows if automatic partition scanning is enabled for the
+		device or not ("1" or "0"). This can be requested individually
+		per loop device during its setup by setting LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN in
+		in the ioctl request. By default, no partition tables are
+		scanned.
+
+What:		/sys/block/loopX/loop/dio
+Date:		Aug, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.10
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Shows if direct IO is being used to access backing file or
+		not ("1 or "0").

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit

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+For all of the nmem device attributes under nfit/*, see the 'NVDIMM Firmware
+Interface Table (NFIT)' section in the ACPI specification
+(http://www.uefi.org/specifications) for more details.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/serial
+Date:		Jun, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Serial number of the NVDIMM (non-volatile dual in-line
+		memory module), assigned by the module vendor.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/handle
+Date:		Apr, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The address (given by the _ADR object) of the device on its
+		parent bus of the NVDIMM device containing the NVDIMM region.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/device
+Date:		Apr, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.1
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Device id for the NVDIMM, assigned by the module vendor.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/rev_id
+Date:		Jun, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Revision of the NVDIMM, assigned by the module vendor.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/phys_id
+Date:		Apr, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Handle (i.e., instance number) for the SMBIOS (system
+		management BIOS) Memory Device structure describing the NVDIMM
+		containing the NVDIMM region.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/flags
+Date:		Jun, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate
+		the state of the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy
+		source or last "flush to persistence".
+
+		The attribute is a translation of the 'NVDIMM State Flags' field
+		in section 5.2.25.3 'NVDIMM Region Mapping' Structure of the
+		ACPI specification 6.2.
+
+		The health states are "save_fail", "restore_fail", "flush_fail",
+		"not_armed", "smart_event", "map_fail" and "smart_notify".
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/format
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/format1
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/formats
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The interface codes indicate support for persistent memory
+		mapped directly into system physical address space and / or a
+		block aperture access mechanism to the NVDIMM media.
+		The 'formats' attribute displays the number of supported
+		interfaces.
+
+		This layout is compatible with existing libndctl binaries that
+		only expect one code per-dimm as they will ignore
+		nmemX/nfit/formats and nmemX/nfit/formatN.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/vendor
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Vendor id of the NVDIMM.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/dsm_mask
+Date:		May, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The bitmask indicates the supported device specific control
+		functions relative to the NVDIMM command family supported by the
+		device
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/family
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Displays the NVDIMM family command sets. Values
+		0, 1, 2 and 3 correspond to NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL,
+		NVDIMM_FAMILY_HPE1, NVDIMM_FAMILY_HPE2 and NVDIMM_FAMILY_MSFT
+		respectively.
+
+		See the specifications for these command families here:
+		http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface-V1.6.pdf
+		https://github.com/HewlettPackard/hpe-nvm/blob/master/Documentation/
+		https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/mt604741"
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/id
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) ACPI specification 6.2 section 5.2.25.9, defines an
+		identifier for an NVDIMM, which refelects the id attribute.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/subsystem_vendor
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Sub-system vendor id of the NVDIMM non-volatile memory
+		subsystem controller.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/subsystem_rev_id
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Sub-system revision id of the NVDIMM non-volatile memory subsystem
+		controller, assigned by the non-volatile memory subsystem
+		controller vendor.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/subsystem_device
+Date:		Apr, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.7
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Sub-system device id for the NVDIMM non-volatile memory
+		subsystem controller, assigned by the non-volatile memory
+		subsystem controller vendor.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/revision
+Date:		Jun, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) ACPI NFIT table revision number.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/scrub
+Date:		Sep, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.9
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RW) This shows the number of full Address Range Scrubs (ARS)
+		that have been completed since driver load time. Userspace can
+		wait on this using select/poll etc. A '+' at the end indicates
+		an ARS is in progress
+
+		Writing a value of 1 triggers an ARS scan.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/hw_error_scrub
+Date:		Sep, 2016
+KernelVersion:	v4.9
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RW) Provides a way to toggle the behavior between just adding
+		the address (cache line) where the MCE happened to the poison
+		list and doing a full scrub. The former (selective insertion of
+		the address) is done unconditionally.
+
+		This attribute can have the following values written to it:
+
+		'0': Switch to the default mode where an exception will only
+		insert the address of the memory error into the poison and
+		badblocks lists.
+		'1': Enable a full scrub to happen if an exception for a memory
+		error is received.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/dsm_mask
+Date:		Jun, 2017
+KernelVersion:	v4.13
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) The bitmask indicates the supported bus specific control
+		functions. See the section named 'NVDIMM Root Device _DSMs' in
+		the ACPI specification.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/range_index
+Date:		Jun, 2015
+KernelVersion:	v4.2
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) A unique number provided by the BIOS to identify an address
+		range. Used by NVDIMM Region Mapping Structure to uniquely refer
+		to this structure. Value of 0 is reserved and not used as an
+		index.
+
+
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/ecc_unit_size
+Date:		Aug, 2017
+KernelVersion:	v4.14
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+		(RO) Size of a write request to a DIMM that will not incur a
+		read-modify-write cycle at the memory controller.
+
+		When the nfit driver initializes it runs an ARS (Address Range
+		Scrub) operation across every pmem range. Part of that process
+		involves determining the ARS capabilities of a given address
+		range. One of the capabilities that is reported is the 'Clear
+		Uncorrectable Error Range Length Unit Size' (see: ACPI 6.2
+		section 9.20.7.4 Function Index 1 - Query ARS Capabilities).
+		This property indicates the boundary at which the NVDIMM may
+		need to perform read-modify-write cycles to maintain ECC (Error
+		Correcting Code) blocks.