The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning

infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured
 text.  Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate
 the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel
 docs.  Someday.
 
 Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the
 movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to
 the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo
 fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet:
 "A bit busier this time around.

  The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning
  infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using
  restructured text.  Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be
  able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better
  integrated set of kernel docs.  Someday.

  Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees,
  the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of
  improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection
  of corrections, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits)
  doc: self-protection: provide initial details
  serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info
  serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex
  Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g
  Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior
  docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output
  docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option
  docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space
  docproc: abstract docproc directive detection
  docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation
  docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename
  kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types
  kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output
  kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments
  Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c
  Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes
  samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory
  samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory
  Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake
  Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes
  ...
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@ -176,13 +176,13 @@ a history of how Linux changed RCU more than RCU changed Linux
which Mathieu Desnoyers is now maintaining [MathieuDesnoyers2009URCU]
[MathieuDesnoyersPhD]. TINY_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009BloatWatchRCU] made
its appearance, as did expedited RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU].
The problem of resizeable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path
The problem of resizable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path
to a solution [JoshTriplett2009RPHash]. A few academic researchers are now
using RCU to solve their parallel problems [HariKannan2009DynamicAnalysisRCU].
2010 produced a simpler preemptible-RCU implementation
based on TREE_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2010SimpleOptRCU], lockdep-RCU
[PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU], another resizeable RCU-protected hash
[PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU], another resizable RCU-protected hash
table [HerbertXu2010RCUResizeHash] (this one consuming more memory,
but allowing arbitrary changes in hash function, as required for DoS
avoidance in the networking code), realization of the 2009 RCU-protected
@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ the RCU API [PaulEMcKenney2010RCUAPI].
[LinusTorvalds2011Linux2:6:38:rc1:NPigginVFS], an RCU-protected red-black
tree using software transactional memory to protect concurrent updates
(strange, but true!) [PhilHoward2011RCUTMRBTree], yet another variant of
RCU-protected resizeable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU
RCU-protected resizable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU
trainwreck [PaulEMcKenney2011RCU3.0trainwreck], and Neil Brown's "Meet the
Lockers" LWN article [NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers]. Some academic
work looked at debugging uses of RCU [Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425].