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For historical reasons, rcutorture places its build products in a tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/b1 directory using the O= kbuild command-line argument. However, doing this requires that the source directory be pristine: Not just "make clean" pristine, but instead "make mrproper" (or, equivalently, "make distclean") pristine. Therefore, rcutorture executes a "make mrproper" before each build. Unfortunately, "make mrproper" has the side effect of removing pretty much everything, including tags files and cscope databases, which can be inconvenient to people whose workflow centers around a single source tree. This commit therefore makes rcutorture do the build directly in the source directory, removing the need for "make mrproper". This works because all needed build products are moved to their proper place in the "res" directory immediately after the build completes, so that multiple rcutorture kernels can still run concurrently. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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.