Merge branch 'doc/4.9' into docs-next

Documentation/Makefile.sphinx

@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_PDFLATEX),0)
 	$(warning The 'xelatex' command was not found. Make sure you have it installed and in PATH to produce PDF output.)
 	@echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
 else # HAVE_PDFLATEX
-	@$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,latex,.,latex,.)
+	@$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,latex,$(var),latex,$(var)))
 endif # HAVE_PDFLATEX
 
 pdfdocs: latexdocs
 ifneq ($(HAVE_PDFLATEX),0)
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) PDFLATEX=xelatex LATEXOPTS="-interaction=nonstopmode" -C $(BUILDDIR)/latex
+	$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS), $(MAKE) PDFLATEX=xelatex LATEXOPTS="-interaction=nonstopmode" -C $(BUILDDIR)/$(var)/latex)
 endif # HAVE_PDFLATEX
 
 epubdocs:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -2161,10 +2161,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
 
 	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
-			should make use of.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
-			kernel to using 'n' processors.  n=0 is a special case,
-			it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
-			the IO APIC.
+			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
+			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
+			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
+			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
+			only takes effect during system bootup.
+			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
+			which also disables the IO APIC.
 
 	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
 	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
@@ -2773,9 +2776,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
 			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
-			supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
-			use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
-			just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
+			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
+			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
+			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
+			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
+			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
+			hot plugging.
 
 	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
 

Documentation/media/conf.py

@@ -3,3 +3,8 @@
 project = 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation'
 
 tags.add("subproject")
+
+latex_documents = [
+    ('index', 'media.tex', 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation',
+     'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
+]

Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py

@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
 from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
 from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter
 
+__version__  = '1.0'
+
 class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
     """Extract kernel-doc comments from the specified file"""
     required_argument = 1
@@ -139,3 +141,9 @@ def setup(app):
     app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_verbosity', 1, 'env')
 
     app.add_directive('kernel-doc', KernelDocDirective)
+
+    return dict(
+        version = __version__,
+        parallel_read_safe = True,
+        parallel_write_safe = True
+    )

Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py

@@ -39,11 +39,18 @@ from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
 from docutils.parsers.rst.directives.body import CodeBlock, NumberLines
 from docutils.parsers.rst.directives.misc import Include
 
+__version__  = '1.0'
+
 # ==============================================================================
 def setup(app):
 # ==============================================================================
 
     app.add_directive("kernel-include", KernelInclude)
+    return dict(
+        version = __version__,
+        parallel_read_safe = True,
+        parallel_write_safe = True
+    )
 
 # ==============================================================================
 class KernelInclude(Include):

Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.py

@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ def setup(app):
     roles.register_local_role('cspan', c_span)
     roles.register_local_role('rspan', r_span)
 
+    return dict(
+        version = __version__,
+        parallel_read_safe = True,
+        parallel_write_safe = True
+    )
+
 # ==============================================================================
 def c_span(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options=None, content=None):
 # ==============================================================================

scripts/kernel-doc

@@ -1831,13 +1831,22 @@ sub output_function_rst(%) {
     my %args = %{$_[0]};
     my ($parameter, $section);
     my $oldprefix = $lineprefix;
-    my $start;
+    my $start = "";
 
+    if ($args{'typedef'}) {
+	print ".. c:type:: ". $args{'function'} . "\n\n";
+	print_lineno($declaration_start_line);
+	print "   **Typedef**: ";
+	$lineprefix = "";
+	output_highlight_rst($args{'purpose'});
+	$start = "\n\n**Syntax**\n\n  ``";
+    } else {
 	print ".. c:function:: ";
+    }
     if ($args{'functiontype'} ne "") {
-	$start = $args{'functiontype'} . " " . $args{'function'} . " (";
+	$start .= $args{'functiontype'} . " " . $args{'function'} . " (";
     } else {
-	$start = $args{'function'} . " (";
+	$start .= $args{'function'} . " (";
     }
     print $start;
 
@@ -1856,11 +1865,15 @@ sub output_function_rst(%) {
 	    print $type . " " . $parameter;
 	}
     }
+    if ($args{'typedef'}) {
+	print ");``\n\n";
+    } else {
 	print ")\n\n";
 	print_lineno($declaration_start_line);
 	$lineprefix = "   ";
 	output_highlight_rst($args{'purpose'});
 	print "\n";
+    }
 
     print "**Parameters**\n\n";
     $lineprefix = "  ";
@@ -2000,7 +2013,7 @@ sub output_struct_rst(%) {
 	($args{'parameterdescs'}{$parameter_name} ne $undescribed) || next;
 	$type = $args{'parametertypes'}{$parameter};
         print_lineno($parameterdesc_start_lines{$parameter_name});
-	print "``$type $parameter``\n";
+	print "``" . $parameter . "``\n";
 	output_highlight_rst($args{'parameterdescs'}{$parameter_name});
 	print "\n";
     }
@@ -2190,7 +2203,9 @@ sub dump_typedef($$) {
     $x =~ s@/\*.*?\*/@@gos;	# strip comments.
 
     # Parse function prototypes
-    if ($x =~ /typedef\s+(\w+)\s*\(\*\s*(\w\S+)\s*\)\s*\((.*)\);/) {
+    if ($x =~ /typedef\s+(\w+)\s*\(\*\s*(\w\S+)\s*\)\s*\((.*)\);/ ||
+	$x =~ /typedef\s+(\w+)\s*(\w\S+)\s*\s*\((.*)\);/) {
+
 	# Function typedefs
 	$return_type = $1;
 	$declaration_name = $2;
@@ -2201,6 +2216,7 @@ sub dump_typedef($$) {
 	output_declaration($declaration_name,
 			   'function',
 			   {'function' => $declaration_name,
+			    'typedef' => 1,
 			    'module' => $modulename,
 			    'functiontype' => $return_type,
 			    'parameterlist' => \@parameterlist,