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2The Linux kernel user-space API guide
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4
5.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
6
7While much of the kernel's user-space API is documented elsewhere
8(particularly in the man-pages_ project), some user-space information can
9also be found in the kernel tree itself.  This manual is intended to be the
10place where this information is gathered.
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12
13System calls
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15
16.. toctree::
17   :maxdepth: 1
18
19   unshare
20   futex2
21   ebpf/index
22   ioctl/index
23   mseal
24
25Security-related interfaces
26===========================
27
28.. toctree::
29   :maxdepth: 1
30
31   no_new_privs
32   seccomp_filter
33   landlock
34   lsm
35   mfd_noexec
36   spec_ctrl
37   tee
38   check_exec
39
40Devices and I/O
41===============
42
43.. toctree::
44   :maxdepth: 1
45
46   accelerators/ocxl
47   dma-buf-alloc-exchange
48   fwctl/index
49   gpio/index
50   iommufd
51   media/index
52   dcdbas
53   vduse
54   isapnp
55
56Everything else
57===============
58
59.. toctree::
60   :maxdepth: 1
61
62   ELF
63   netlink/index
64   sysfs-platform_profile
65   vduse
66   futex2
67   perf_ring_buffer
68   ntsync
69
70.. only::  subproject and html
71
72   Indices
73   =======
74
75   * :ref:`genindex`
76