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Merge "Update kernel update documentation."

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@ -17,11 +17,23 @@ They can be also included before or after any Bionic C library header.
Description of the directories involved in generating the parsed kernel headers:
* `external/kernel-headers/original/`
Contains the uapi kernel headers found in the android kernel. Note this
* `external/kernel-headers/original/uapi/`
Contains the uapi kernel headers found in the Android kernel. Note this
also includes the header files that are generated by building the kernel
sources.
* `external/kernel-headers/original/scsi/`
Contains copies of the kernel scsi header files. These where never
made into uapi files, but some user space code expects that these
headers are available.
* `external/kernel-headers/modified/scsi/`
Contains hand-modified versions of a few files from `original/scsi/`
that removes the kernel specific code from these files so they can
be used as uapi headers. The tools to process the kernel headers will
warn if any scsi header files have changed and require new versions
to be hand-modified.
* `bionic/libc/kernel/uapi/`
Contains the cleaned kernel headers and mirrors the directory structure
in `external/kernel-headers/original/uapi/`.
@ -33,7 +45,7 @@ Description of the directories involved in generating the parsed kernel headers:
The tools to get/parse the headers:
* `tools/generate_uapi_headers.sh`
Checks out the android kernel and generates all uapi header files.
Checks out the Android kernel and generates all uapi header files.
copies all the changed files into external/kernel-headers.
* `tools/clean_header.py`
@ -60,19 +72,25 @@ Download the Android mainline kernel source code:
kernel_src> git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/ -b android-mainline
```
For now, there are no tags, take the top of tree version. To find the
version of the linux stable kernel headers the mainline source code is
tracking, read the uapi/linux/version.h that is generated.
The Android mainline kernel source has tags that indicate the kernel
version to which they correspond. The format of a tag is
android-mainline-XXX, where XXX is the kernel version. For example,
android-mainline-5.10 corresponds to linux stable kernel 5.10. To check out
a particular tag:
```
kernel_src> cd linux-stable
kernel_src/linux-stable> git checkout tags/vXXX
kernel_src> cd common
kernel_src/common> git checkout tags/android-mainline-XXX
```
It is expected that a kernel update should only be performed on a valid tag.
For testing purposes, it is possible that you can use the top of tree
version, but never use that as the basis for importing new kernel headers.
Before running the command to import the headers, make sure that you have
done a lunch TARGET. The script uses a variable set by the lunch command
to determine which directory to use as the destination directory.
After running lunch, run this command to import the headers into the android
After running lunch, run this command to import the headers into the Android
source tree if there is a kernel source tree already checked out:
```
bionic/libc/kernel/tools/generate_uapi_headers.sh --use-kernel-dir kernel_src