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Adds a new line to the docstrings of functions wrapping __xa_alloc() and __xa_alloc_cyclic(), informing about the necessity of flag XA_FLAGS_ALLOC being set previously. The documentation so far says that functions wrapping __xa_alloc() and __xa_alloc_cyclic() are supposed to return either -ENOMEM or -EBUSY in case of an error. If the xarray has been initialized without the flag XA_FLAGS_ALLOC, however, they fail with a different, undocumented error code. As hinted at in Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst, wrappers around these functions should only be invoked when the flag has been set. The functions' documentation should reflect that as well. Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.