Linux kernel
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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.
David Howells
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Provide a function for filling in a scatterlist from the list of pages contained in an iterator. If the iterator is UBUF- or IOBUF-type, the pages have a pin taken on them (as FOLL_PIN). If the iterator is BVEC-, KVEC- or XARRAY-type, no pin is taken on the pages and it is left to the caller to manage their lifetime. It cannot be assumed that a ref can be validly taken, particularly in the case of a KVEC iterator. Signed-off-by:David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com> cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>