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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/
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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
39Devices and I/O
40===============
41
42.. toctree::
43   :maxdepth: 1
44
45   accelerators/ocxl
46   dma-buf-alloc-exchange
47   gpio/index
48   iommufd
49   media/index
50   dcdbas
51   vduse
52   isapnp
53
54Everything else
55===============
56
57.. toctree::
58   :maxdepth: 1
59
60   ELF
61   netlink/index
62   sysfs-platform_profile
63   vduse
64   futex2
65   perf_ring_buffer
66
67.. only::  subproject and html
68
69   Indices
70   =======
71
72   * :ref:`genindex`
73