doc: Convert the debugobjects DocBook template to sphinx

A couple of the most minor heading tweaks, otherwise no changes to the text
itself beyond the mechanical conversion.

Note that the inclusion of the kerneldoc comments from the source has never
worked, since exported symbols were asked for and none of those functions
are exported to modules.  It doesn't work here either :)

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

4 files changed, 329 insertions, 446 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index c8bd257660eb..bc6278d18090 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml  \
 	    kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml kgdb.xml \
 	    gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \
 	    genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml \
-	    80211.xml debugobjects.xml sh.xml regulator.xml \
+	    80211.xml sh.xml regulator.xml \
 	    tracepoint.xml w1.xml \
 	    writing_musb_glue_layer.xml crypto-API.xml iio.xml
 
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e4f34fde697..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,443 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
-	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
-
-<book id="debug-objects-guide">
- <bookinfo>
-  <title>Debug objects life time</title>
-
-  <authorgroup>
-   <author>
-    <firstname>Thomas</firstname>
-    <surname>Gleixner</surname>
-    <affiliation>
-     <address>
-      <email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
-     </address>
-    </affiliation>
-   </author>
-  </authorgroup>
-
-  <copyright>
-   <year>2008</year>
-   <holder>Thomas Gleixner</holder>
-  </copyright>
-
-  <legalnotice>
-   <para>
-     This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
-     it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
-     License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
-     useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
-     warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-     See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
-     License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
-     Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-     MA 02111-1307 USA
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-     For more details see the file COPYING in the source
-     distribution of Linux.
-   </para>
-  </legalnotice>
- </bookinfo>
-
-<toc></toc>
-
-  <chapter id="intro">
-    <title>Introduction</title>
-    <para>
-      debugobjects is a generic infrastructure to track the life time
-      of kernel objects and validate the operations on those.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      debugobjects is useful to check for the following error patterns:
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem><para>Activation of uninitialized objects</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Initialization of active objects</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Usage of freed/destroyed objects</para></listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      debugobjects is not changing the data structure of the real
-      object so it can be compiled in with a minimal runtime impact
-      and enabled on demand with a kernel command line option.
-    </para>
-  </chapter>
-
-  <chapter id="howto">
-    <title>Howto use debugobjects</title>
-    <para>
-      A kernel subsystem needs to provide a data structure which
-      describes the object type and add calls into the debug code at
-      appropriate places. The data structure to describe the object
-      type needs at minimum the name of the object type. Optional
-      functions can and should be provided to fixup detected problems
-      so the kernel can continue to work and the debug information can
-      be retrieved from a live system instead of hard core debugging
-      with serial consoles and stack trace transcripts from the
-      monitor.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      The debug calls provided by debugobjects are:
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_init</para></listitem>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_init_on_stack</para></listitem>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_activate</para></listitem>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_deactivate</para></listitem>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_destroy</para></listitem>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_free</para></listitem>
-	<listitem><para>debug_object_assert_init</para></listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-      Each of these functions takes the address of the real object and
-      a pointer to the object type specific debug description
-      structure.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      Each detected error is reported in the statistics and a limited
-      number of errors are printk'ed including a full stack trace.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      The statistics are available via /sys/kernel/debug/debug_objects/stats.
-      They provide information about the number of warnings and the
-      number of successful fixups along with information about the
-      usage of the internal tracking objects and the state of the
-      internal tracking objects pool.
-    </para>
-  </chapter>
-  <chapter id="debugfunctions">
-    <title>Debug functions</title>
-    <sect1 id="prototypes">
-      <title>Debug object function reference</title>
-!Elib/debugobjects.c
-    </sect1>
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_init">
-      <title>debug_object_init</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called whenever the initialization function
-	of a real object is called.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is
-	checked, whether the object can be initialized.  Initializing
-	is not allowed for active and destroyed objects. When
-	debugobjects detects an error, then it calls the fixup_init
-	function of the object type description structure if provided
-	by the caller. The fixup function can correct the problem
-	before the real initialization of the object happens. E.g. it
-	can deactivate an active object in order to prevent damage to
-	the subsystem.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is not yet tracked by debugobjects,
-	debugobjects allocates a tracker object for the real object
-	and sets the tracker object state to ODEBUG_STATE_INIT. It
-	verifies that the object is not on the callers stack. If it is
-	on the callers stack then a limited number of warnings
-	including a full stack trace is printk'ed. The calling code
-	must use debug_object_init_on_stack() and remove the object
-	before leaving the function which allocated it. See next
-	section.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_init_on_stack">
-      <title>debug_object_init_on_stack</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called whenever the initialization function
-	of a real object which resides on the stack is called.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is
-	checked, whether the object can be initialized. Initializing
-	is not allowed for active and destroyed objects. When
-	debugobjects detects an error, then it calls the fixup_init
-	function of the object type description structure if provided
-	by the caller. The fixup function can correct the problem
-	before the real initialization of the object happens. E.g. it
-	can deactivate an active object in order to prevent damage to
-	the subsystem.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is not yet tracked by debugobjects
-	debugobjects allocates a tracker object for the real object
-	and sets the tracker object state to ODEBUG_STATE_INIT. It
-	verifies that the object is on the callers stack.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	An object which is on the stack must be removed from the
-	tracker by calling debug_object_free() before the function
-	which allocates the object returns. Otherwise we keep track of
-	stale objects.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_activate">
-      <title>debug_object_activate</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called whenever the activation function of a
-	real object is called.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is
-	checked, whether the object can be activated.  Activating is
-	not allowed for active and destroyed objects. When
-	debugobjects detects an error, then it calls the
-	fixup_activate function of the object type description
-	structure if provided by the caller. The fixup function can
-	correct the problem before the real activation of the object
-	happens. E.g. it can deactivate an active object in order to
-	prevent damage to the subsystem.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is not yet tracked by debugobjects then
-	the fixup_activate function is called if available. This is
-	necessary to allow the legitimate activation of statically
-	allocated and initialized objects. The fixup function checks
-	whether the object is valid and calls the debug_objects_init()
-	function to initialize the tracking of this object.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the activation is legitimate, then the state of the
-	associated tracker object is set to ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_deactivate">
-      <title>debug_object_deactivate</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called whenever the deactivation function of
-	a real object is called.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is tracked by debugobjects it is checked,
-	whether the object can be deactivated. Deactivating is not
-	allowed for untracked or destroyed objects.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the deactivation is legitimate, then the state of the
-	associated tracker object is set to ODEBUG_STATE_INACTIVE.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_destroy">
-      <title>debug_object_destroy</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called to mark an object destroyed. This is
-	useful to prevent the usage of invalid objects, which are
-	still available in memory: either statically allocated objects
-	or objects which are freed later.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is tracked by debugobjects it is checked,
-	whether the object can be destroyed. Destruction is not
-	allowed for active and destroyed objects. When debugobjects
-	detects an error, then it calls the fixup_destroy function of
-	the object type description structure if provided by the
-	caller. The fixup function can correct the problem before the
-	real destruction of the object happens. E.g. it can deactivate
-	an active object in order to prevent damage to the subsystem.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the destruction is legitimate, then the state of the
-	associated tracker object is set to ODEBUG_STATE_DESTROYED.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_free">
-      <title>debug_object_free</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called before an object is freed.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is tracked by debugobjects it is checked,
-	whether the object can be freed. Free is not allowed for
-	active objects. When debugobjects detects an error, then it
-	calls the fixup_free function of the object type description
-	structure if provided by the caller. The fixup function can
-	correct the problem before the real free of the object
-	happens. E.g. it can deactivate an active object in order to
-	prevent damage to the subsystem.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Note that debug_object_free removes the object from the
-	tracker. Later usage of the object is detected by the other
-	debug checks.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="debug_object_assert_init">
-      <title>debug_object_assert_init</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called to assert that an object has been
-	initialized.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is not tracked by debugobjects, it calls
-	fixup_assert_init of the object type description structure
-	provided by the caller, with the hardcoded object state
-	ODEBUG_NOT_AVAILABLE. The fixup function can correct the problem
-	by calling debug_object_init and other specific initializing
-	functions.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is
-	ignored.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-  </chapter>
-  <chapter id="fixupfunctions">
-    <title>Fixup functions</title>
-    <sect1 id="debug_obj_descr">
-      <title>Debug object type description structure</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/debugobjects.h
-    </sect1>
-    <sect1 id="fixup_init">
-      <title>fixup_init</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem
-	in debug_object_init is detected. The function takes the
-	address of the object and the state which is currently
-	recorded in the tracker.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Called from debug_object_init when the object state is:
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem><para>ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE</para></listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
-	otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
-	statistics.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Note, that the function needs to call the debug_object_init()
-	function again, after the damage has been repaired in order to
-	keep the state consistent.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="fixup_activate">
-      <title>fixup_activate</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem
-	in debug_object_activate is detected.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Called from debug_object_activate when the object state is:
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem><para>ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE</para></listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
-	otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
-	statistics.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Note that the function needs to call the debug_object_activate()
-	function again after the damage has been repaired in order to
-	keep the state consistent.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The activation of statically initialized objects is a special
-	case. When debug_object_activate() has no tracked object for
-	this object address then fixup_activate() is called with
-	object state ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE. The fixup function
-	needs to check whether this is a legitimate case of a
-	statically initialized object or not. In case it is it calls
-	debug_object_init() and debug_object_activate() to make the
-	object known to the tracker and marked active. In this case
-	the function should return false because this is not a real
-	fixup.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-
-    <sect1 id="fixup_destroy">
-      <title>fixup_destroy</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem
-	in debug_object_destroy is detected.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Called from debug_object_destroy when the object state is:
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem><para>ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE</para></listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
-	otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
-	statistics.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-    <sect1 id="fixup_free">
-      <title>fixup_free</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem
-	in debug_object_free is detected. Further it can be called
-	from the debug checks in kfree/vfree, when an active object is
-	detected from the debug_check_no_obj_freed() sanity checks.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Called from debug_object_free() or debug_check_no_obj_freed()
-	when the object state is:
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem><para>ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE</para></listitem>
-	</itemizedlist>
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
-	otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
-	statistics.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-    <sect1 id="fixup_assert_init">
-      <title>fixup_assert_init</title>
-      <para>
-	This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem
-	in debug_object_assert_init is detected.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Called from debug_object_assert_init() with a hardcoded state
-	ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE when the object is not found in the
-	debug bucket.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
-	otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
-	statistics.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	Note, this function should make sure debug_object_init() is
-	called before returning.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-	The handling of statically initialized objects is a special
-	case. The fixup function should check if this is a legitimate
-	case of a statically initialized object or not. In this case only
-	debug_object_init() should be called to make the object known to
-	the tracker. Then the function should return false because this
-	is not
-	a real fixup.
-      </para>
-    </sect1>
-  </chapter>
-  <chapter id="bugs">
-    <title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title>
-    <para>
-	None (knock on wood).
-    </para>
-  </chapter>
-</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/debug-objects.rst b/Documentation/core-api/debug-objects.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..50a9707addfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/debug-objects.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
+============================================
+The object-lifetime debugging infrastructure
+============================================
+
+:Author: Thomas Gleixner
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+debugobjects is a generic infrastructure to track the life time of
+kernel objects and validate the operations on those.
+
+debugobjects is useful to check for the following error patterns:
+
+-  Activation of uninitialized objects
+
+-  Initialization of active objects
+
+-  Usage of freed/destroyed objects
+
+debugobjects is not changing the data structure of the real object so it
+can be compiled in with a minimal runtime impact and enabled on demand
+with a kernel command line option.
+
+Howto use debugobjects
+======================
+
+A kernel subsystem needs to provide a data structure which describes the
+object type and add calls into the debug code at appropriate places. The
+data structure to describe the object type needs at minimum the name of
+the object type. Optional functions can and should be provided to fixup
+detected problems so the kernel can continue to work and the debug
+information can be retrieved from a live system instead of hard core
+debugging with serial consoles and stack trace transcripts from the
+monitor.
+
+The debug calls provided by debugobjects are:
+
+-  debug_object_init
+
+-  debug_object_init_on_stack
+
+-  debug_object_activate
+
+-  debug_object_deactivate
+
+-  debug_object_destroy
+
+-  debug_object_free
+
+-  debug_object_assert_init
+
+Each of these functions takes the address of the real object and a
+pointer to the object type specific debug description structure.
+
+Each detected error is reported in the statistics and a limited number
+of errors are printk'ed including a full stack trace.
+
+The statistics are available via /sys/kernel/debug/debug_objects/stats.
+They provide information about the number of warnings and the number of
+successful fixups along with information about the usage of the internal
+tracking objects and the state of the internal tracking objects pool.
+
+Debug functions
+===============
+
+Debug object function reference
+-------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/debugobjects.c
+   :export:
+
+debug_object_init
+-------------------
+
+This function is called whenever the initialization function of a real
+object is called.
+
+When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is checked,
+whether the object can be initialized. Initializing is not allowed for
+active and destroyed objects. When debugobjects detects an error, then
+it calls the fixup_init function of the object type description
+structure if provided by the caller. The fixup function can correct the
+problem before the real initialization of the object happens. E.g. it
+can deactivate an active object in order to prevent damage to the
+subsystem.
+
+When the real object is not yet tracked by debugobjects, debugobjects
+allocates a tracker object for the real object and sets the tracker
+object state to ODEBUG_STATE_INIT. It verifies that the object is not
+on the callers stack. If it is on the callers stack then a limited
+number of warnings including a full stack trace is printk'ed. The
+calling code must use debug_object_init_on_stack() and remove the
+object before leaving the function which allocated it. See next section.
+
+debug_object_init_on_stack
+------------------------------
+
+This function is called whenever the initialization function of a real
+object which resides on the stack is called.
+
+When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is checked,
+whether the object can be initialized. Initializing is not allowed for
+active and destroyed objects. When debugobjects detects an error, then
+it calls the fixup_init function of the object type description
+structure if provided by the caller. The fixup function can correct the
+problem before the real initialization of the object happens. E.g. it
+can deactivate an active object in order to prevent damage to the
+subsystem.
+
+When the real object is not yet tracked by debugobjects debugobjects
+allocates a tracker object for the real object and sets the tracker
+object state to ODEBUG_STATE_INIT. It verifies that the object is on
+the callers stack.
+
+An object which is on the stack must be removed from the tracker by
+calling debug_object_free() before the function which allocates the
+object returns. Otherwise we keep track of stale objects.
+
+debug_object_activate
+-----------------------
+
+This function is called whenever the activation function of a real
+object is called.
+
+When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is checked,
+whether the object can be activated. Activating is not allowed for
+active and destroyed objects. When debugobjects detects an error, then
+it calls the fixup_activate function of the object type description
+structure if provided by the caller. The fixup function can correct the
+problem before the real activation of the object happens. E.g. it can
+deactivate an active object in order to prevent damage to the subsystem.
+
+When the real object is not yet tracked by debugobjects then the
+fixup_activate function is called if available. This is necessary to
+allow the legitimate activation of statically allocated and initialized
+objects. The fixup function checks whether the object is valid and calls
+the debug_objects_init() function to initialize the tracking of this
+object.
+
+When the activation is legitimate, then the state of the associated
+tracker object is set to ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE.
+
+debug_object_deactivate
+-------------------------
+
+This function is called whenever the deactivation function of a real
+object is called.
+
+When the real object is tracked by debugobjects it is checked, whether
+the object can be deactivated. Deactivating is not allowed for untracked
+or destroyed objects.
+
+When the deactivation is legitimate, then the state of the associated
+tracker object is set to ODEBUG_STATE_INACTIVE.
+
+debug_object_destroy
+----------------------
+
+This function is called to mark an object destroyed. This is useful to
+prevent the usage of invalid objects, which are still available in
+memory: either statically allocated objects or objects which are freed
+later.
+
+When the real object is tracked by debugobjects it is checked, whether
+the object can be destroyed. Destruction is not allowed for active and
+destroyed objects. When debugobjects detects an error, then it calls the
+fixup_destroy function of the object type description structure if
+provided by the caller. The fixup function can correct the problem
+before the real destruction of the object happens. E.g. it can
+deactivate an active object in order to prevent damage to the subsystem.
+
+When the destruction is legitimate, then the state of the associated
+tracker object is set to ODEBUG_STATE_DESTROYED.
+
+debug_object_free
+-------------------
+
+This function is called before an object is freed.
+
+When the real object is tracked by debugobjects it is checked, whether
+the object can be freed. Free is not allowed for active objects. When
+debugobjects detects an error, then it calls the fixup_free function of
+the object type description structure if provided by the caller. The
+fixup function can correct the problem before the real free of the
+object happens. E.g. it can deactivate an active object in order to
+prevent damage to the subsystem.
+
+Note that debug_object_free removes the object from the tracker. Later
+usage of the object is detected by the other debug checks.
+
+debug_object_assert_init
+---------------------------
+
+This function is called to assert that an object has been initialized.
+
+When the real object is not tracked by debugobjects, it calls
+fixup_assert_init of the object type description structure provided by
+the caller, with the hardcoded object state ODEBUG_NOT_AVAILABLE. The
+fixup function can correct the problem by calling debug_object_init
+and other specific initializing functions.
+
+When the real object is already tracked by debugobjects it is ignored.
+
+Fixup functions
+===============
+
+Debug object type description structure
+---------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/debugobjects.h
+   :internal:
+
+fixup_init
+-----------
+
+This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem in
+debug_object_init is detected. The function takes the address of the
+object and the state which is currently recorded in the tracker.
+
+Called from debug_object_init when the object state is:
+
+-  ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE
+
+The function returns true when the fixup was successful, otherwise
+false. The return value is used to update the statistics.
+
+Note, that the function needs to call the debug_object_init() function
+again, after the damage has been repaired in order to keep the state
+consistent.
+
+fixup_activate
+---------------
+
+This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem in
+debug_object_activate is detected.
+
+Called from debug_object_activate when the object state is:
+
+-  ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE
+
+-  ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE
+
+The function returns true when the fixup was successful, otherwise
+false. The return value is used to update the statistics.
+
+Note that the function needs to call the debug_object_activate()
+function again after the damage has been repaired in order to keep the
+state consistent.
+
+The activation of statically initialized objects is a special case. When
+debug_object_activate() has no tracked object for this object address
+then fixup_activate() is called with object state
+ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE. The fixup function needs to check whether
+this is a legitimate case of a statically initialized object or not. In
+case it is it calls debug_object_init() and debug_object_activate()
+to make the object known to the tracker and marked active. In this case
+the function should return false because this is not a real fixup.
+
+fixup_destroy
+--------------
+
+This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem in
+debug_object_destroy is detected.
+
+Called from debug_object_destroy when the object state is:
+
+-  ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE
+
+The function returns true when the fixup was successful, otherwise
+false. The return value is used to update the statistics.
+
+fixup_free
+-----------
+
+This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem in
+debug_object_free is detected. Further it can be called from the debug
+checks in kfree/vfree, when an active object is detected from the
+debug_check_no_obj_freed() sanity checks.
+
+Called from debug_object_free() or debug_check_no_obj_freed() when
+the object state is:
+
+-  ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE
+
+The function returns true when the fixup was successful, otherwise
+false. The return value is used to update the statistics.
+
+fixup_assert_init
+-------------------
+
+This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem in
+debug_object_assert_init is detected.
+
+Called from debug_object_assert_init() with a hardcoded state
+ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE when the object is not found in the debug
+bucket.
+
+The function returns true when the fixup was successful, otherwise
+false. The return value is used to update the statistics.
+
+Note, this function should make sure debug_object_init() is called
+before returning.
+
+The handling of statically initialized objects is a special case. The
+fixup function should check if this is a legitimate case of a statically
+initialized object or not. In this case only debug_object_init()
+should be called to make the object known to the tracker. Then the
+function should return false because this is not a real fixup.
+
+Known Bugs And Assumptions
+==========================
+
+None (knock on wood).
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
index f7ef7fda5763..c3a1402da0cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,26 @@
 ======================
-Core-API Documentation
+Core API Documentation
 ======================
 
-Kernel and driver related documentation.
+This is the beginning of a manual for core kernel APIs.  The conversion
+(and writing!) of documents for this manual is much appreciated!
+
+Core utilities
+==============
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    workqueue
 
+Interfaces for kernel debugging
+===============================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   debug-objects	      
+
 .. only::  subproject
 
    Indices