This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs. The conversion (and writing!) of documents for this manual is much appreciated!
This section has general and "core core" documentation. The first is a massive grab-bag of kerneldoc info left over from the docbook days; it should really be broken up someday when somebody finds the energy to do it.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 kernel-api workqueue printk-basics printk-formats symbol-namespaces
Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 kobject kref assoc_array xarray idr circular-buffers rbtree generic-radix-tree packing bus-virt-phys-mapping this_cpu_ops timekeeping errseq
How Linux keeps everything from happening at the same time. See Documentation/locking/index.rst for more related documentation.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 refcount-vs-atomic irq/index local_ops padata ../RCU/index
Cache management, managing CPU hotplug, etc.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 cachetlb cpu_hotplug memory-hotplug genericirq protection-keys
How to allocate and use memory in the kernel. Note that there is a lot more memory-management documentation in Documentation/vm/index.rst.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 memory-allocation unaligned-memory-access dma-api dma-api-howto dma-attributes dma-isa-lpc mm-api genalloc pin_user_pages boot-time-mm gfp_mask-from-fs-io
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 debug-objects tracepoint debugging-via-ohci1394
Documents that don't fit elsewhere or which have yet to be categorized.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 librs
.. only:: subproject and html Indices ======= * :ref:`genindex`