[RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Add scheduler overview documentation

From: john mathew
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 10:40:03 EST


This patch series updates the scheduler documentation to add more topics
wrt to scheduler overview. New sections are added to provide a brief
overview of the kernel structs used by the scheduler, scheduler invocation
and context switch. First version of this patch series was reviewed at

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200401100029.1445-1-john.mathew@xxxxxxxxxx/

version 2:
- Remove :c:func: directive as it was redundant
- Limit document width (line symbol count) to 75
- Replace dot file with ASCII art
- Describe prepare_task_switch(), ASID use,
kernel/user transtion, MIPS FPU affinity correctly
- Add missing references to files
- Removed internal APIs from scheduler API reference
- Described rq struct member as kernel-doc comments
- Replaced CFS history with CFS current status
- Added documentation for sched_class fields
- Refined explanation of context swtich functionality
- Added kernel-doc comments for struct rq
- Mention SCHED_DEADLINE and add pointer to sched-deadline.txt

John Mathew (3):
docs: scheduler: Restructure scheduler documentation.
docs: scheduler: Add scheduler overview documentation
docs: scheduler: Add introduction to scheduler context-switch

Documentation/scheduler/arch-specific.rst | 14 +
Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst | 110 +++++++
Documentation/scheduler/context-switching.rst | 126 ++++++++
Documentation/scheduler/index.rst | 33 ++-
.../scheduler/mips-context-switch.rst | 88 ++++++
Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst | 274 ++++++++++++++++++
.../scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst | 253 ++++++++++++++++
Documentation/scheduler/sched-debugging.rst | 14 +
Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst | 20 ++
Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst | 30 ++
.../scheduler/x86-context-switch.rst | 65 +++++
kernel/sched/core.c | 28 +-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 169 ++++++++++-
13 files changed, 1204 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/arch-specific.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/context-switching.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/mips-context-switch.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-debugging.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/x86-context-switch.rst

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