Merge tag 'docs-6.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a not-too-busy cycle for documentation; highlights include:

   - The beginnings of a set of translations into Spanish, headed up by
     Carlos Bilbao

   - More Chinese translations

   - A change to the Sphinx "alabaster" theme by default for HTML
     generation.

     Unlike the previous default (Read the Docs), alabaster is shipped
     with Sphinx by default, reducing the number of other dependencies
     that need to be installed. It also (IMO) produces a cleaner and
     more readable result.

   - The ability to render the documentation into the texinfo format
     (something Sphinx could always do, we just never wired it up until
     now)

  Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, build-warning fixes, and
  minor updates"

* tag 'docs-6.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (67 commits)
  Documentation/features: Use loongarch instead of loong
  Documentation/features-refresh.sh: Only sed the beginning "arch" of ARCH_DIR
  docs/zh_CN: Fix '.. only::' directive's expression
  docs/sp_SP: Add memory-barriers.txt Spanish translation
  docs/zh_CN/LoongArch: Update links of LoongArch ISA Vol1 and ELF psABI
  docs/LoongArch: Update links of LoongArch ISA Vol1 and ELF psABI
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.1
  Documentation: Fixed a typo in bootconfig.rst
  docs/sp_SP: Add process coding-style translation
  docs/sp_SP: Add kernel-docs.rst Spanish translation
  docs: Create translations/sp_SP/process/, move submitting-patches.rst
  docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
  docs: Retire old resources from kernel-docs.rst
  docs: Update maintainer of kernel-docs.rst
  Documentation: riscv: Document the sv57 VM layout
  Documentation: USB: correct possessive "its" usage
  math64: fix kernel-doc return value warnings
  math64: add kernel-doc for DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP
  math64: favor kernel-doc from header files
  doc: add texinfodocs and infodocs targets
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
index 306ad373a0022..1c6e2ab92f4e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 Index of Further Kernel Documentation
 =====================================
 
-Initial Author: Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche (<jmseyas@dit.upm.es>;
-email address is defunct now.)
-
 The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
 linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
 to information, appeared again and again.
@@ -31,7 +28,9 @@ All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's
 .. note::
 
    The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
-   published date, from the newest to the oldest.
+   published date, from the newest to the oldest. The maintainer(s) should
+   periodically retire resources as they become obsolte or outdated; with
+   the exception of foundational books.
 
 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
 -----------------------------
@@ -61,24 +60,6 @@ On-line docs
         a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
         during discussion of the Linux kernel".
 
-    * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
-
-      :Author: Richard Sailer
-      :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
-      :Date: 2016
-      :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
-      :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
-        understanding linux kernel internals,
-        illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
-      :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
-        as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
-        Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
-        source code more determined and with context.
-        In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
-        and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
-        Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
-        exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
-
     * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
 
       :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
@@ -91,379 +72,16 @@ On-line docs
         programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
         actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
 
-    * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
-
-      :Author: Andi Kleen
-      :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
-      :Date: 2008
-      :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
-      :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
-        there are and how likely they get merged.
-      :Abstract:
-        [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
-        submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
-
-    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
-
-      :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
-      :URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
-      :Date: 2005
-      :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
-        programming API and kernel hacking in general.  Available under the
-        Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
-      :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere  <ldd3_published>`.
-
-    * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
-
-      :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
-      :URL: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.html
-      :Date: 2005
-      :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
-      :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
-        both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
-        sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
-
-    * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
-
-      :Author: David Hinds.
-      :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
-      :Date: 2003
-      :Keywords: PCMCIA.
-      :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
-        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
-        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
-        Card Services.
-
-    * Title: **How NOT to write kernel drivers**
-
-      :Author: Arjan van de Ven.
-      :URL: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
-      :Date: 2002
-      :Keywords: driver.
-      :Description: Programming bugs and Do-nots in kernel driver development
-      :Abstract: *Quit a few tutorials, articles and books give an introduction
-        on how to write Linux kernel drivers. Unfortunately the things one
-        should NOT do in Linux kernel code is either only a minor appendix
-        or, more commonly, completely absent. This paper tries to briefly touch
-        the areas in which the most common and serious bugs and do-nots are
-        encountered.*
-
-    * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
-
-      :Author: Rick Lindsley.
-      :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
-      :Date: 2001
-      :Keywords: spinlock.
-      :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
-        usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
-        list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
-        access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
-        is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
-
-    * Title: **A Linux vm README**
-
-      :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
-      :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
-      :Date: 2001
-      :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
-        cache, swap cache, kswapd.
-      :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
-        relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
-
-    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
-      :Date: 2000
-      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
-        camera driver.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
-      :Date: 2000
-      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
-        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
-
-      :Author: Glenn Herrin.
-      :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
-      :Date: 2000
-      :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
-        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
-        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
-      :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
-        explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
-        configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
-        the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
-        packets follow from the time they are received at the network
-        device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
-        code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
-        dropper example.
-
-    * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
-
-      :Author: Paul Mackerras.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
-      :Description: The title still says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
-
-      :Author: Richard Gooch.
-      :URL: https://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
-        event queues.
-      :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
-        how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
-        open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
-        application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
-        (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
-        want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
-        inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
-
-    * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
-
-      :Author: pragmatic/THC.
-      :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
-      :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
-        order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
-        files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
-        write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
-        avoid all those abuses.
-      :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
-        kernels.
-
-    * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
-
-      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
-      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
-      :Date: 1998
-      :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
-      :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
-        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
-        dcache.
-
-    * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
-
-      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
-      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
-      :Date: 1998
-      :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
-      :Description: "This document describes the communication between
-        Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
-        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
-        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
-        envisage".
-
-    * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
-
-      :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
-      :URL: https://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
-      :Date: 1998
-      :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
-        VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
-        ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
-      :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
-        Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
-        design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
-        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
-      :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
-        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
-
-    * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
-
-      :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
-      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
-      :Date: 1997
-      :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
-      :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
-        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
-        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
-        secondary-storage capability using software*.
-
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
-
-      :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
-      :URL: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
-      :Date: 1997
-      :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
-        block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
-        memory allocation, timers.
-      :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
-        concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal
-        structures of Linux.
-
-    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
-      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
-        allocating resources.
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
-      :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
-        co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
-        a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
-        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
-        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
-        installment*.
-
-    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
-
-      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
-      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
-        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
-        open(), close().
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
-      :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
-        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
-        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
-        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
-
-    * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
-
-      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
-      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
-        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
-      :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
-        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
-        ioctl-calls*.
-
-    * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
-
-      :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-      :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
-      :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
-        writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
-        month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
-        Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
-        constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
-        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
-        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
-        DMA*.
-
-    * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
-
-      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-      :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
-        demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
-        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
-      :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
-        series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
-        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
-        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
-        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
-
-    * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
-        variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
-        configuration, multicast.
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
-      :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
-        simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
-        hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
-
-    * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
-
-      :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
-      :URL: https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
-      :Date: 1994
-      :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
-      :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
-        bitmaps, invariants...
-
 Published books
 ---------------
 
-    * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
-
-      :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
-      :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
-      :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
-      :Pages: 688
-      :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
-      :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
-         much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
-
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
-
-      :Author: Rami Rosen
-      :Publisher: Apress
-      :Date: December 22, 2013
-      :Pages: 648
-      :ISBN: 978-1430261964
-
-    * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
+    * Title: **Linux Kernel Programming: A Comprehensive Guide to Kernel Internals, Writing Kernel Modules, and Kernel Synchronization**
 
-      :Author: Christopher Hallinan
-      :Publisher: Pearson
-      :Date: November, 2010
-      :Pages: 656
-      :ISBN: 978-0137017836
+          :Author: Kaiwan N. Billimoria
+          :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
+          :Date: 2021
+          :Pages: 754
+          :ISBN: 978-1789953435
 
     * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
 
@@ -472,14 +90,7 @@ Published books
       :Date: July, 2010
       :Pages: 440
       :ISBN: 978-0672329463
-
-    * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
-      :Published: Prentice Hall
-      :Date: April, 2008
-      :Pages: 744
-      :ISBN: 978-0132396554
+      :Notes: Foundational book
 
 .. _ldd3_published:
 
@@ -490,68 +101,10 @@ Published books
       :Date: 2005
       :Pages: 636
       :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
-      :Notes: Further information in
+      :Notes: Foundational book. Further information in
         http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
         PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
 
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
-
-      :Author: Michael Beck
-      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
-      :Date: 1997
-      :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
-
-    * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
-
-      :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
-      :Publisher: Eyrolles
-      :Date: 1997
-      :Pages: 520
-      :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
-      :Notes: French
-
-    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
-
-      :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
-        John S. Quarterman
-      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
-      :Date: 1996
-      :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
-
-    * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
-
-      :Author: Uresh Vahalia
-      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Pages: 600
-      :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-
-    * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
-
-      :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
-      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
-      :Date: 1995
-      :Pages: 552
-      :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
-      :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
-        POSIX. Good reference.
-
-    * Title:  **UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
-
-      :Author: Curt Schimmel
-      :Publisher: Addison Wesley
-      :Date: June, 1994
-      :Pages: 432
-      :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
-
-    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
-
-      :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
-        Karels, John S. Quarterman
-      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
-      :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
-      :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
-
     * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
 
       :Author: Maurice J. Bach
@@ -559,6 +112,7 @@ Published books
       :Date: 1986
       :Pages: 471
       :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
+      :Notes: Foundational book
 
 Miscellaneous
 -------------
@@ -577,7 +131,7 @@ Miscellaneous
       :Keywords: latest kernel news.
       :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
         summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
-        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
+        produced during the week.
 
     * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
 
@@ -614,7 +168,8 @@ Miscellaneous
 
 -------
 
-Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
+This document was originally based on:
 
-This document is based on:
  https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
+
+and written by Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche