docs: add ABI documentation to the admin-guide book

As we don't want a generic Sphinx extension to execute commands,
change the one proposed to Markus to call the abi_book.pl
script.

Use a script to parse the Documentation/ABI directory and output
it at the admin-guide.

Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5651482b06500e69a1acdf92152f90a203e6521d.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

6 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cda9168445a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-obsolete.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+ABI obsolete symbols
+====================
+
+Documents interfaces that are still remaining in the kernel, but are
+marked to be removed at some later point in time.
+
+The description of the interface will document the reason why it is
+obsolete and when it can be expected to be removed.
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/obsolete
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..497978fc9632
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-removed.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ABI removed symbols
+===================
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/removed
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7495d7a35048
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-stable.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+ABI stable symbols
+==================
+
+Documents the interfaces that the developer has defined to be stable.
+
+Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces with no
+restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will be guaranteed
+for at least 2 years.
+
+Most interfaces (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always
+be available.
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/stable
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5c886fc50b9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi-testing.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+ABI testing symbols
+===================
+
+Documents interfaces that are felt to be stable,
+as the main development of this interface has been completed.
+
+The interface can be changed to add new features, but the
+current interface will not break by doing this, unless grave
+errors or security problems are found in them.
+
+Userspace programs can start to rely on these interfaces, but they must
+be aware of changes that can occur before these interfaces move to
+be marked stable.
+
+Programs that use these interfaces are strongly encouraged to add their
+name to the description of these interfaces, so that the kernel
+developers can easily notify them if any changes occur.
+
+.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/testing
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3b9645c77469
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+=====================
+Linux ABI description
+=====================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   abi-stable
+   abi-testing
+   abi-obsolete
+   abi-removed
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index ed1cf94ea50c..4e0c4ae44acd 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ etc.
    devices
    sysctl/index
 
+   abi
+
 This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
 
 .. toctree::