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Mauro Carvalho Chehab ff8b091864 docs: maintainers_include: keep the last entry at the end
The last maintainer's entry ("THE REST") is meant to be at the
end. Ensure that.

While here, use a case-insensitive sort to avoid placing "iSCSI"
near the end.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <b4f45565eff4ba6f01e84a6877813038a23ba83b.1778952682.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-25 14:24:09 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0b740ec538 docs: maintainers_include: restore compatibility with Python 3.6
glob root_dir parameter requires Python 3.10, which is more than
our current Python minimal requirement.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <930036c189414f3f7096c22269687489f8566dd9.1778952682.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-25 14:24:09 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 09958f69fa MAINTAINERS: use a URL for pin-init maintainer's profile entry
This maintainer's entry is not inside documentation nor is
ReST, preventing Sphinx to create a hyperlink to it.

Change it to point to the already-formatted URL.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <1bceee886b9027d66bbb48d9d6c8d1250ce8dbcb.1777987028.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <59144e7323b95166e61a7c7f84096a0b9bb5d26e.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 446c78d6ab MAINTAINERS: make clearer about what's expected for "P" field
The "P" field is meant to point to a subsystem maintainer's
profile, stored either at the Kernel documentation or on an
external site. Make it clearer.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <921e5e6a074f9d8cf77483d73e6801f49254bbb8.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <21e6def8b69bac36795dcd4047d663bb31407dcb.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab d5ab486874 docs: maintainers_include: better handle doc wildcards
As warned by sashiko-bot, the new logic doesn't handle wildcards
on Documentation/.

Change the logic to properly handle it, cleaning up the code
to remove some code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <eb575072d60c20243afee6f94ef71427ef7b2e79.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 84a9658e84 docs: maintainers_include: better handle directories
The TOC tree needs to use paths relative to the document containing
the maintainers-profile-toc directive. Fix it.

While here, address a warning from sashiko-bot, which points
that using partition can be problematic if the root Linux path
ends being something like:

    foo/Documentation/linux/

causing the documentation dir to be at:

    foo/Documentation/linux/Documentation

Very unlikely, but fixing it is trivial: just use regex to
pick the last one.

Notice that I dropped the comment about using os.fspath() as
the logic already uses os.path.abspath() which should work
equally well.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <2b07e12eaa07bf81824ad427335783b170e01dba.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 247cb381a5 docs: maintainers_include: don't ignore invalid profile entries
Currently, there is a "P" entry for Rust pin-init that is
neither a valid ReST file inside Documentation nor an URL.

A proper fix is to either convert/move the file or point to
a URL. Yet, the parser should be able to pick what's there and
show on its output.

Add a logic to produce a warning when this happens.

Message-ID: <63228e005fcf3dc4583cee06905341e8bce84181.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <98915f35442fa12c6d59611083aea3adbf8c6aff.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 11bb115dd5 docs: maintainers_include: add a filtering javascript
The maintainers table is big. Add a javascript to allow filtering
it. Such script is only added at the page which contains the
maintainers-include tag.

I opted to keep the search case-sensitive, as, this way,
upper case searches at subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <c435ef150f5d6ed16570969f43d92ba6fb857842.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <6f87c233351595358fddba11d42171be464f0a65.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 083f0b10f5 docs: maintainers_include: properly handle file patterns
handling asterisks inside file patterns atdescription part is
problematic, as ReST has special meaning for them. Due to
that, convert such patterns to literal strings.

Reported-by: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Fixes: 420849332f ("get_maintainer: add ** glob pattern support")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <89127706fb3493d00ecb21e528c8a27081e5ed40.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <abd5112fea4dd480f5e72ba46fe60c2463862829.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 1aac8eff9a docs: maintainers_include: store maintainers entries on a dict
Instead of creating just a big output data, store entries inside
a dictionary. Doing that simplifies the parser a little bit
and make the code clearer.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <4ad88179e03436984f29780ae380d50591f86c67.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <f7d1a206475ee54f757b2642882013097cb5453a.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b15fd8c043 docs: maintainers_include: do some coding style cleanups
Minor coding style adjustments to use the style most python
doc scripts are following.

No functional changes.

Assisted-by: pylint, black
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <460aabd0518f080b34e12fdc0beb7ec7685d5866.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <e041be77fcda3f1a54fdb428b3f8703bbce5d6ff.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:48 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8cf515e259 docs: maintainers_include: clean most SPHINXDIRS=process warnings
building docs with SPHINXDIRS=process is too noisy, as it
generates lots of undefined refs. Fixing it is easy: just let
linkify generate html URLs for the broken links when SPHINXDIRS
is used.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <b57d83081c28aa52683b403f8836d098fcdd8530.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <567200712771590d08e4da096b4def92bf729ffe.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:47 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab ec027efe85 docs: maintainers_include: cleanup the code
Simplify the logic without affecting the output result.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <24a83995778de8710cac40a3089c2f2fe5c38dbd.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <5f48bf411925e923d206239a4de0a3e34592de88.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:47 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4cd160e4ea docs: maintainers_include: split state machine on multiple funcs
Instead of one big __init__ code, split the MaintainersParser
code in a way that the state machine remains on __init__, but
the actual parser for descriptions and subsystems are moved
to separate functions.

To make parser easier, instead storing parsed results on a list,
place them directly on a string.

That granted 15% of performance increase(*) with Python 3.14 and
made the logic simpler.

(*) measured by creating a new directory under Documentation/,
    and placing justmaintainers.rst and an index file there,
    building it via sphinx-build-wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <0b72530cf496ce5e2987ca784058a50f4dc814d2.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <26376e92a5e31e5d285b8676ed443a247b42e4c5.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:47 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3859c1a796 docs: maintainers_include: keep hidden TOC sorted
There's no practical difference on keeping it sorted, but
it helps a lot when checking for differences after patches
to the tool.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <e6b302f2826e6a5c0124bb33cc517e8b5888252b.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <2742993764f2193101536a1cea40e034d75e0539.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-15 08:01:47 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab a2a2faa66e docs: maintainers_include: parse MAINTAINERS just once
Change the logic to parse MAINTAINERS file content just once,
while still allowing using it multiple times.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <8060589074f54a276e563db8cad124d3f88346c7.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:31 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6aaf2e91a1 docs: maintainers_include: fix support for O=dir
os.path.relpath() will do the wrong thing with O=dir, as the build
system uses "cd <dir>" internally.

Solve it by using app.srcdir, which, on normal cases, point to
Documentation/, or, when SPHINXDIRS=process, it will be set with
Documentation/process.

While here, remove a dead code while writing maintainer profiles,
as now all entries should have both profile and entry.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/88335220-3527-4b1f-9500-417f7ebb7a02@infradead.org/T/#m6854cbd8d30e2c5d3e8c4173bae1c3d6922ff970
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <193792d73d08d9f8b9faa8b3df8a1a7439344a28.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:31 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 237abdfaa6 docs: maintainers_include: improve its output
There are three "types" of profiles:
1. Profiles already included inside subsystem-specific documentation.
   This is the most common case;
2. Profiles that are hosted externally;
3. Profiles that are at the same location as maintainer-handbooks.rst.

For (3), we need to create a TOC, as they don't exist elsewhere.

Change the logic to create TOC just for (3), prepending the
content of maintainer-handbooks with a sorted entry of all types,
before the TOC.

With such change, we can have an unique sorted list of profiles,
having the subsystem names used there listed.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <10d06a3f530e07ad981aba93617a9a7f4d63c408.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab bda185c305 docs: maintainers_include: Only show main entry for profiles
Instead of showing as a "Contents:" with 2 identation levels,
drop its title and show profiles as a list of entries.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <387b42c523e7b9f33e61cdff6fadb1df265cf71d.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 66a40162db docs: maintainers_include: preserve names for files under process/
When a maintainer's profile is stored outside process, they're
already included on some other book and the name of the filesystem
may not be there. That's why the logic picks the name from the
subsystem's name.

However, files directly placed together with maintainers-handbooks.rst
(e.g. under Documentation/process/) is a different history: those
aren't placed anywhere, so we can keep using their own names,
letting Sphinx do his thing.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <46961bc932be804cec19f06d202c23423d4aa12a.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab a2560483c6 docs: maintainers_include: add external profile URLs
Some subsystem profiles are maintained elsewhere. Add them to
the output.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <b80639a38abdc934589e88bc9fc3029ad5c20bfe.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b01f7f29f7 docs: maintainers_include: use a better title for profiles
As we're picking the name of the subsystem from MAINTAINERS,
also use its subsystem name for the titles.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <8ce9c77c4d8c98e6bad37d838b0e359c8416040c.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8eae6da5f5 docs: auto-generate maintainer entry profile links
Instead of manually creating a TOC tree for them, use the new
tag to auto-generate its TOC.

Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <9228f77b0339b8e5dea4a201ab6d4feb30cef5c2.1776176108.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <65e3f1d51eda0984ac945f50128b593f848584bc.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6b6d73de37 docs: maintainers_include: auto-generate maintainer profile TOC
Add a feature to allow auto-generating media entry profiles from the
corresponding field inside MAINTAINERS file(s).

Suggested-by: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/69dd6299440be_147c801005b@djbw-dev.notmuch/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <4e9512a3d05942c98361d06d60a118d7c78762b6.1776176108.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <eac5fb166bcbf0f267e762d72b150bbf248ff057.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 45a92c0b91 docs: maintainers: add SPDX license to the file
While this file is really trivial, add a SPDX license line on it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <d27d60d72c7b2a07535d612444dc1024366ed5d0.1777295258.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-05-03 09:24:30 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 210a923aab docs: kdoc_diff: add a helper tool to help checking kdoc regressions
Checking for regressions at kernel-doc can be hard. Add a helper
tool to make such task easier.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <24b3116a78348b13a74d1ff5e141160ef9705dd3.1774551940.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-30 10:54:13 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 07f6cb18c5 tools: unittest_helper: add a quiet mode
On quiet mode, only report errors.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <27556792ff70e6267ecd19c258149d380db8d423.1774551940.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-30 10:54:13 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab d642acfd59 doc tools: better handle KBUILD_VERBOSE
As reported by Jacob, there are troubles when KBUILD_VERBOSE is
set at the environment.

Fix it on both kernel-doc and sphinx-build-wrapper.

Reported-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/9367d899-53af-4d9c-9320-22fc4dbadca5@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <7a99788db75630fb14828d612c0fd77c45ec1891.1774591065.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-30 10:03:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2ca0b54dca docs: c_lex.py: store logger on its data
By having the logger stored there, any code using CTokenizer can
log messages there.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <467979dc18149e4b2a7113c178e0cb07919632f2.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:46 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9c3911812b docs: kdoc_output: raise an error if full_proto not available for var
This is mandatory, but if it is missing, we need to know what
symbol had problems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <0c3d9dd25889784b999efdb354ade48264c0e03c.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:46 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e786fab2cf docs: kdoc_yaml_file: use a better name for the tests
Instead of always using a name with a number on it, use
the name of the object directly whenever possible.

When the name is already used, append a number prefix at
the end.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <d1c4cd94547d843af0debf9e317e006d55d705f1.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:46 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 99ec67a998 docs: kdoc: better handle source when producing YAML output
The current logic was storing symbols source code on a list,
not linked to the actual KdocItem. While this works fine when
kernel-doc markups are OK, on places where there is a "/**"
without a valid kernel-doc markup, it ends that the 1:1 match
between source code and KdocItem doesn't happen, causing
problems to generate the YAML output.

Fix it by storing the source code directly into the KdocItem
structure.

This shouldn't affect performance or memory footprint, except
when --yaml option is used.

While here, add a __repr__() function for KdocItem, as it
helps debugging it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <77902dafabb5c3250486aa2dc1568d5fafa95c5b.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:46 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8326e4a218 docs: kdoc_output: fix handling of simple tables
Fix check for simple table delimiters.

ReST simple tables use "=" instead of "-". I ended testing it with
a table modified from a complex one, using "--- --- ---", instead
of searching for a real Kernel example.

Only noticed when adding an unit test and seek for an actual
example from kernel-doc markups.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <dea95337c05040f95e5a95ae41d69ddef0aaa8d6.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:46 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab bc63427c4d docs: kdoc-test.yaml: add more tests
Add extra tests to check if the new "var" type is properly
handled and to cover mutex context annotations.

Co-developed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <75af93a45151b630c94b7f77637d173e6119fd41.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6e0d7b6367 docs: kdoc_yaml_file: add a representer to make strings look nicer
The strings representation is not ok, currently. Add a helper
function to improve it, and drop blank lines at beginning and
at the end of the dumps

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <422041a8b49b2609de5749092fe074b7948c32a6.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e896174e46 docs: tools: include kdoc_yaml_file at documentation
Add an autodoc entry for the new kdoc_yaml_file module.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <32b86abe7acee2dd4f73a35836ec94e8690f04cd.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3f049a5ba9 unittests: test_kdoc_parser: add command line arg to read a YAML file
The test_kdoc_parser.py already supports loading dynamic tests
when running unit tests.

Add support to read from a different file. This is useful for:
- regression tests before/afer some changes;
- preparing new unit tests;
- test a different yaml before adding its contents at
  tools/unittests/kdoc-test.yaml.

It should be noticed that passing an argument to a unit test
is not too trivial, as unittest core will load itself the
runner with a separate environment. The best (only?) way to
do it is by setting the system environment. This way, when
the class is called by the unit test loader, it can pick
the var from the environment without relying on a global
variable.

The unittest_helper has already provision for it, so let's
use its support.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <1d1a56de012c43756f9ca87aa9bf6c285674f113.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 625ce45f2c MAINTAINERS: update documentation scripts to add unittests
Ensure that we'll receive e-mails for attempts to touch
tools/unittests.

While here, place entries alphabetically sorted.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <6be396b8423372dd006484351ca2dbc54220587e.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25 13:36:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 01d6d7bf96 docs: kernel-doc: add support to store output on a YAML file
Add a command line parameter and library support to optionally
store:
- KdocItem intermediate format after parsing;
- man pages output;
- rst output.

inside a YAML file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <ba54277b3c909867153b9547dfa33c1831ca35d9.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b37b3cbbb1 docs: add a new file to write kernel-doc output to a YAML file
Storing kernel-doc output is helpful to allow debugging problems
on it and to preparate unit tests.

Add a class to store such contents at the same format as defined
at kdoc-test-schema.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <5d084ca1a91f6a620534a1135d1b8183d934319a.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab eea0d807db docs: test_kdoc_parser: add support for dynamic test creation
Use the content of kdoc-test.yaml to generate unittests to
verify that kernel-doc internal methods are parsing C code
and generating output the expected way.

Depending on what is written at the parser file at
kdoc-test.yaml, up to 5 tests can be generated from a single
test entry inside the YAML file:

1. from source to kdoc_item: test KernelDoc class;
2. from kdoc_item to man: test ManOutput class;
3. from kdoc_item to rst: test RestOutput class;
4. from source to man without checking expected KdocItem;
5. from source to rst without checking expected KdocItem.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <7ec2593c5b19de3e3b1d8de92675f6b751d3fa21.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8b69f5225a docs: add a simple kdoc-test.yaml together with a validation tool
Create a simple kdoc-test.yaml to be used to create unit tests for
kernel-doc parser and output classes.

For now, all we want is a simple function mapped on a yaml test
using the defined schema.

To be sure that the schema is followed, add an unittest for
the file, which will also validate that the schema is properly
parsed.

It should be noticed that the .TH definition for the man format
contains a timestamp. We'll need to handle that when dealing with
the actual implementation for the ManOutput class unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <74883976348c964f00161696d525c33ddd8c7641.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab f1cdbd824c docs: add a schema to help creating unittests for kernel-doc
Instead of hardcoding lots of tests inside a file, let's place
them inside a yaml file.

Add first a schema to handle it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <f42fd816ee0d257c736b30977b10f04f6bea27c2.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab a5dea56ebd docs: unittests: add a parser to test kernel-doc parser logic
Validating that kernel-doc is parsing data properly is tricky.

Add an unittest skeleton that alllows passing a source code
and check if the corresponding values of export_table and
entries returned by the parser are properly filled.

It works by mocking a file input with the contents of a source
string, an comparing if:

	- exports set matches;
	- expected KernelItem entries match.

Create a new TestSelfValidate meant to check if the logic
inside KdocParser.run_test() does its job of checking for
differences inside KdocItem.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <8d91bfabd69de7aa44a0f5080ccb01aa41957e6d.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e394855fcc docs: kdoc_item: fix a typo on sections_start_lines
Currently, there are 15 occurrences of section?_start_lines,
with 10 using the plural way.

This is an issue, as, while kdoc_output works with KdocItem,
the term doesn't match its init value.

The variable sections_start_lines stores multiple sections,
so placing it in plural is its correct way.

So, ensure that, on all parts of kdoc, this will be referred
as sections_start_lines.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <d1e0f1d3f80df41c11a1bbde6a12fd9468bc3813.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 99364ba7f8 docs: kdoc_item: add support to generate a KdocItem from a dict
When reading the contents on a KdocItem using YAML, the data
will be imported into a dict.

Add a method to create a new KdocItem from a dict to allow
converting such input into a real KdocItem.

While here, address an issue that, if the class is initialized
with an internal parameter outside the 4 initial arguments,
it would end being added inside other_stuff, which breaks
initializing it from a dict.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <fafeac23d1577927e1a3c32cddfbec1e0209ac73.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 01c41b99c6 docs: kdoc_item: fix initial value for parameterdesc_start_lines
Ensure that parameterdesc_start_lines is a dict at init time,
as this is how it will be set later on at the parser.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <1b4ea24dd4cd82e6711e9be80168684427d74c30.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9ab2ca3dd1 docs: kdoc_files: move output symbols logic to kdoc_output
When writing unittests for kdoc_output, it became clear that
the logic with handles a series of KdocItem symbols from
a single file belons to kdoc_output, and not to kdoc_files.

Move the code to it.

While here, also ensure that self.config will be placed
together with set.out_style.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <4ebc26e37a0b544c50d50b8077760f147fa6a535.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e0ebee442d docs: kdoc_files: use a class to group config parameters
Instead of abusing argparse.Namespace, define a class to store
configuration parameters and logger.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <a66ec9872c72a3ba1a5ac567881d67dc8ee581c6.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8c0b7c0d3c docs: kdoc: add c_lex to generated documentation
Do some fixes at groups() description for it to be parsed by
Sphinx and add it to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <799178cf30dd4022fdb1d029ba998a458e037b52.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b2d231f4a7 docs: kdoc_re: better represent long regular expressions
The Sphinx output from autodoc doesn't automatically break long
lines, except on spaces.

Change KernRe __repr__() to break the pattern on multiple strings,
each one with a maximum limit of 60 characters.

With that, documentation output for KernRe should now be displayable,
even on long strings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <60c264a9d277fed655b1a62df2195562c8596090.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 14b7775ef7 unittests: test_tokenizer: better handle mismatch error
The current logic is too sensitive to how c_lex name is
placed. Also, it doesn't really check the log.

Change it to check if the expected message will be reported
after a call to C tokenizer with an invalid source.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <6e19578bc1ffa96e536dc31997ff658017f60173.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:10:39 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7538df7a2d docs: xforms_lists: use CMatch for all identifiers
CMatch is lexically correct and replaces only identifiers,
which is exactly where macro transformations happen.

Use it to make the output safer and ensure that all arguments
will be parsed the right way, even on complex cases.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <86d4a07ff0e054207747fabf38d6bb261b52b5fa.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 79d881beb7 docs: kdoc_parser: avoid tokenizing structs everytime
Most of the rules inside CTransforms are of the type CMatch.

Don't re-parse the source code every time.

Doing this doesn't change the output, but makes kdoc almost
as fast as before the tokenizer patches:

    # Before tokenizer patches
    $ time ./scripts/kernel-doc . -man >original 2>&1

    real    0m42.933s
    user    0m36.523s
    sys     0m1.145s

    # After tokenizer patches
    $ time ./scripts/kernel-doc . -man >before 2>&1

    real    1m29.853s
    user    1m23.974s
    sys     0m1.237s

    # After this patch
    $ time ./scripts/kernel-doc . -man >after 2>&1

    real    0m48.579s
    user    0m45.938s
    sys     0m0.988s

    $ diff -s before after
    Files before and after are identical

Manually checked the differences between original and after
with:

    $ diff -U0 -prBw original after|grep -v Warning|grep -v "@@"|less

They're due:
  - whitespace fixes;
  - struct_group are now better handled;
  - several badly-generated man pages from broken inline kernel-doc
    markups are now fixed.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <1cc2a4286ebf7d4b2d03fcaf42a1ba9fa09004b9.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 12aa7753ff docs: kdoc: ensure that comments are dropped before calling split_struct_proto()
Changeset 2b957decdb6c ("docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypes")
revealed a hidden bug at split_struct_proto(): some comments there may break
its capability of properly identifying a struct.

Fixing it is as simple as stripping comments before calling it.

Fixes: 2b957decdb6c ("docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypes")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <dcff37b6da5329aea415de31f543b6a1c2cbbbce.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 827b9458c9 docs: kernel-doc.rst: document private: scope propagation
This was an undefined behavior, but at least one place used private:
inside a nested struct meant to not be propagated outside it.

Kernel-doc now defines how this is propagated. So, document that.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <bbe0ed698c21f3f930a561b885bc8a47824f7f1d.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 024e200e2a docs: c_lex: setup a logger to report tokenizer issues
Report file that has issues detected via CMatch and CTokenizer.

This is done by setting up a logger that will be overriden by
kdoc_parser, when used on it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <903ad83ae176196a50444e66177a4f5bcdef5199.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2f07ddbd57 docs: xforms_lists: better evaluate struct_group macros
The previous approach were to unwind nested structs/unions.

Now that we have a logic that can handle it well, use it to
ensure that struct_group macros will properly reflect the
actual struct.

Note that the replacemend logic still simplifies the code
a little bit, as the basic build block for struct group is:

	union { \
		struct { MEMBERS } ATTRS; \
		struct __struct_group_tag(TAG) { MEMBERS } ATTRS NAME; \
	} ATTRS

There:

- ATTRS is meant to add extra macro attributes like __packed
  which we already discard, as they aren't relevant to
  document struct members;

- TAG is used only when built with __cplusplus.

So, instead, convert them into just:

    struct { MEMBERS };

Please notice that here, we're using the greedy version of the
backrefs, as MEMBERS is actually MEMBERS... on all such macros.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <24bf2c036b08814d9b4aabc27542fd3b2ff54424.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab f63e6163c7 docs: xforms_lists: handle struct_group directly
The previous logic was handling struct_group on two steps.
Remove the previous approach, as CMatch can do it the right
way on a single step.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <da7f879d90e3ffbc1f47771522f212a60df1fab6.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab ae63a5b920 docs: kdoc_re: get rid of NestedMatch class
Now that everything was converted to CMatch, we can get rid of
the previous NestedMatch implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <c82dd0d2c0ab330fc04925965091c448ccabb8fd.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 600079fdcf docs: kdoc: replace NestedMatch with CMatch
Our previous approach to solve nested structs were to use
NestedMatch. It works well, but adding support to parse delimiters
is very complex.

Instead, use CMatch, which uses a C tokenizer, making the code more
reliable and simpler.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <900bff66f8093402999f9fe055fbfa3fa33a8d8b.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab c22aa12c76 unittests: test_cmatch: add tests for sub()
Now that we have code for sub(), test it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <b2621b0d378317f0db5eeb2408c794429dc9f70a.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9aaeb817ef docs: c_lex: properly implement a sub() method for CMatch
Implement a sub() method to do what it is expected, parsing
backref arguments like \0, \1, \2, ...

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <dbc45b86db18783289d94cfdbba4b72792c47929.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 50b87bb41e tools: unittests: add tests for CMatch
The CMatch logic is complex enough to justify tests to ensure
that it is doing its job.

Add unittests to check the functionality provided by CMatch
by replicating expected patterns.

The CMatch class handles with complex macros. Add an unittest
to check if its doing the right thing and detect eventual regressions
as we improve its code.

The initial version was generated using gpt-oss:latest LLM
on my local GPU, as LLMs aren't bad transforming patterns
into unittests.

Yet, the curent version contains only the skeleton of what
LLM produced, as I ended higly changing its content to be
more representative and to have real case scenarios.

The kdoc_xforms test suite contains 3 test groups. Two of
them tests the basic functionality of CMatch to
replace patterns.

The last one (TestRealUsecases) contains real code snippets
from the Kernel with some cleanups to better fit in 80 columns
and uses the same transforms as kernel-doc, thus allowing
to test the logic used inside kdoc_parser to transform
functions, structs and variable patterns.

Its output is like this:

        $ tools/unittests/kdoc_xforms.py
        Ran 25 tests in 0.003s

        OK
	test_cmatch:
	    TestSearch:
	        test_search_acquires_multiple:      OK
	        test_search_acquires_nested_paren:  OK
	        test_search_acquires_simple:        OK
	        test_search_must_hold:              OK
	        test_search_must_hold_shared:       OK
	        test_search_no_false_positive:      OK
	        test_search_no_function:            OK
	        test_search_no_macro_remains:       OK

        Ran 8 tests

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <119712b5bc53b4c6dda6a81b4a783dcbfd1d970d.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab f1cf9f7cd6 docs: kdoc: create a CMatch to match nested C blocks
The NextMatch code is complex, and will become even more complex
if we add there support for arguments.

Now that we have a tokenizer, we can use a better solution,
easier to be understood.

Yet, to improve performance, it is better to make it use a
previously tokenized code, changing its ABI.

So, reimplement NextMatch using the CTokener class. Once it
is done, we can drop NestedMatch.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <fa818ea164216b17520b588e3f12b81499b76dd7.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab bd167a2122 unittests: add a runner to execute all unittests
We'll soon have multiple unit tests, add a runner that will
discover all of them and execute all tests.

It was opted to discover only files that starts with "test",
as this way unittest discover won't try adding libraries or
other stuff that might not contain unittest classes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <2d9dd14f03d3d6394346fdaceeb3167d54d1dd0c.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 5f6fc8ed49 unittests: test_tokenizer: check if the tokenizer works
Add extra tests to check if the tokenizer is working properly.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <e4b6e880565f40287a69667652adb393879e039b.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab fe79f85fc8 unittests: test_private: modify it to use CTokenizer directly
Change the logic to use the tokenizer directly. This allows
adding more unit tests to check the validty of the tokenizer
itself.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <2672257233ff73a9464c09b50924be51e25d4f59.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <66e6320a4d5ad9730c1c0ceea79b5021e90c66c6.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab cd77a9aa20 docs: kdoc: use tokenizer to handle comments on structs
Better handle comments inside structs. After those changes,
all unittests now pass:

  test_private:
    TestPublicPrivate:
        test balanced_inner_private:                                 OK
        test balanced_non_greddy_private:                            OK
        test balanced_private:                                       OK
        test no private:                                             OK
        test unbalanced_inner_private:                               OK
        test unbalanced_private:                                     OK
        test unbalanced_struct_group_tagged_with_private:            OK
        test unbalanced_two_struct_group_tagged_first_with_private:  OK
        test unbalanced_without_end_of_line:                         OK

  Ran 9 tests

This also solves a bug when handling STRUCT_GROUP() with a private
comment on it:

	@@ -397134,7 +397134,7 @@ basic V4L2 device-level support.
	             unsigned int    max_len;
	             unsigned int    offset;
	             struct page_pool_params_slow  slow;
	-            STRUCT_GROUP( struct net_device *netdev;
	+            struct net_device *netdev;
	             unsigned int queue_idx;
	             unsigned int    flags;
	       };

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <f83ee9e8c38407eaab6ad10d4ccf155fb36683cc.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <054763260f7b5459ad0738ed906d7c358d640692.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab df50e848f6 docs: add a C tokenizer to be used by kernel-doc
Handling C code purely using regular expressions doesn't work well.

Add a C tokenizer to help doing it the right way.

The tokenizer was written using as basis the Python re documentation
tokenizer example from:
    https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#writing-a-tokenizer

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <39787bb8022e10c65df40c746077f7f66d07ffed.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab d5265f7af2 docs: kdoc: properly handle empty enum arguments
Depending on how the enum proto is written, a comma at the end
may incorrectly make kernel-doc parse an arg like " ".

Strip spaces before checking if arg is empty.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <4182bfb7e5f5b4bbaf05cee1bede691e56247eaf.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <640784283d52c5fc52ea597344ecd567e2fb6e22.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b1e64e30fc docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypes
Parsing a file like drivers/scsi/isci/host.h, which contains
broken kernel-doc markups makes it create a prototype that contains
unmatched end comments.

That causes, for instance, struct sci_power_control to be shown this
this prototype:

    struct sci_power_control {
        * it is not. */ bool timer_started;
        */ struct sci_timer timer;
        * requesters field. */ u8 phys_waiting;
        */ u8 phys_granted_power;
        * mapped into requesters via struct sci_phy.phy_index */ struct isci_phy *requesters[SCI_MAX_PHYS];
    };

as comments won't start with "/*" anymore.

Fix the logic to detect such cases, and keep adding the comments
inside it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <18e577dbbd538dcc22945ff139fe3638344e14f0.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <12ac4a97e2bd5a19d6537122c10098690c38d2c7.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab c6c23449b3 unittests: add a testbench to check public/private kdoc comments
Add unit tests to check if the public/private and comments strip
is working properly.

Running it shows that, on several cases, public/private is not
doing what it is expected:

  test_private:
    TestPublicPrivate:
        test balanced_inner_private:                                 OK
        test balanced_non_greddy_private:                            OK
        test balanced_private:                                       OK
        test no private:                                             OK
        test unbalanced_inner_private:                               FAIL
        test unbalanced_private:                                     FAIL
        test unbalanced_struct_group_tagged_with_private:            FAIL
        test unbalanced_two_struct_group_tagged_first_with_private:  FAIL
        test unbalanced_without_end_of_line:                         FAIL

  Ran 9 tests

  FAILED (failures=5)

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <144f4952e0cb74fe9c9adc117e9a21ec8aa1cc10.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <c1574b5b67b0442de3fab570fe6de9bc28b17a75.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 023aabb6cc docs: python: add helpers to run unit tests
While python internal libraries have support for unit tests, its
output is not nice. Add a helper module to improve its output.

I wrote this module last year while testing some scripts I used
internally. The initial skeleton was generated with the help of
LLM tools, but it was higly modified to ensure that it will work
as I would expect.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <37999041f616ddef41e84cf2686c0264d1a51dc9.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <d81be167b8cdeb003c1f8dcc7ad83a5ed2b520b6.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22 15:02:29 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab ab9150972f docs: kdoc_output: better handle lists
On several functions, the return values are inside a bullet
list. Also, on some places, there are numbered lists as well.

Use a troff markup to format them, to avoid placing everything
on a single line.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <edea87623550a51086c23c9af0edc5e9fcce0ed6.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:39 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 908ae13b18 docs: kdoc_output: add support to handle code blocks
It is common to have code blocks inside kernel-doc markups.
By default, troff will group all lines altogether, producing a
very weird output. If a code block is detected by disabling
filling inside code blocks, re-enabling it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <fb6f16ad345f7ec1b1ebe4c5ec7ea3d9cd6de4fb.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:39 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4ec130cff6 docs: kdoc_output: add a logic to handle tables inside kernel-doc markups
specially when DOC is used, it is not uncommon to have tables
inside a kernel-doc markup.

Add support for simple tables and complex grid tables when output
in groff format.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <442ad76442c325044eb9f34a155d5f484341fb35.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab cde7c96f88 docs: kdoc_output: Change the logic to handle man highlight
The code inside ManFormat code to output man pages is too simple:
it produces very bad results when the content has tables or code
blocks.

Change the way lines are parsed there to allow adding extra
logic to handle some special cases.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <6ae2301a40b3fcb4381dd9dda8c75d14f9616b46.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e4dadcf510 docs: kdoc_output: pick a better default for modulename
Instead of placing the same data for modulename for all generated
man pages, use the directory from the filename used to produce
kernel docs as basis.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <8a5d91c93c0b9b34c2f60e389f4464742804d0d6.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 26b4fdefc0 docs: kdoc_output: describe the class init parameters
As this class is part of the ABI used by both Sphinx kerneldoc
extension and docs/tools/kernel-doc, better describe what
parmeters are used to initialize ManOutput class.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <7c57f26150aae11fced259f30898a980b96efb68.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4160533d05 docs: kdoc_output: fix naming for DOC markups
Right now, DOC markups aren't being handled properly, as it was
using the same name for all output.

Fix it by filling the title argument on a different way.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <11d809e5c4bec23240d3ace3f342dbb2a9263446.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 1a63342a27 docs: kdoc_output: don't use a different modulename for functions
It doesn't make much sense to have a different modulename just
for functions, but not for structs/enums/...

Use the same header everywere.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <978259bdf3e8d310c646ecf76ce56d054f6d5738.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 31938f120f docs: kdoc_output: use a single manual for everything
There's no reason why functions will be on a different manual.
Unify its name, calling it as "Kernel API Manual".

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <000e1174a551e97ad4710ad4f3750b22017bedd5.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 43874045fa docs: kdoc_output: remove extra attribute on man .TH headers
According with modern documents, groff .TH supports up to 5
arguments, but the logic passes 6. Drop the lastest one
("LINUX").

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <f5e480af877903b0596b6a56ef7a152eb8a10dbf.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab c1873e7743 docs: kdoc_output: use a method to emit the .TH header
All man emit functions need to add a .TH header. Move the code
to a common function, as we'll be addressing some issues at
the common code.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <2e55fcfe8724fde08a78635a1a3f8b449a6adf82.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0e4c8adad4 docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: don't allow "/" on file names
When handling "DOC:" sections, slash characters may be there.
Prevent using it at the file names, as this is used for directory
separator.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <c1a83a50b0659a5bcf68ef14f9457cc188e91e3a.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 5828d35647 docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: better handle troff .TH markups
Using a regular expression to match .TH is problematic, as it
doesn't handle well quotation marks.

Use shlex instead.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <9436806316d33aaf68625c00ce068463d3917660.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:34:38 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0d3ab0e4bb docs: kdoc_files: document KernelFiles() ABI
The KernelFiles is the main entry point to run kernel-doc,
being used by both tools/docs/kernel-doc and
Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py.

It is also used on QEMU, which also uses the kernel-doc
libraries from tools/lib/python/kdoc.

Properly describe its ABI contract.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <13eb44c341232564eaf2a9c9de4782369fef57e1.1772810574.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:23:20 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 861dcdb6ad docs: kdoc_files: allows the caller to use a different xforms class
While the main goal for kernel-doc is to be used inside the Linux
Kernel, other open source projects could benefit for it. That's
currently the case of QEMU, which has a fork, mainly due to two
reasons:

  - they need an extra C function transform rule;
  - they handle the html output a little bit different.

Add an extra optional argument to make easier for the code to be
shared, as, with that, QEMU can just create a new derivated class
that will contain its specific rulesets, and just copy the
remaining kernel-doc files as-is.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <6b274ddbdcd9d438c6848e00e410a2f65ef80ec2.1772810574.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-09 10:23:20 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab a7da7fb57f Merge tag 'v7.0-rc2' into __tmp-hverkuil-media-tags_br_v7_1a
Linux 7.0-rc2

* tag 'v7.0-rc2': (372 commits)
  Linux 7.0-rc2
  firewire: ohci: initialize page array to use alloc_pages_bulk() correctly
  KVM: always define KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU
  KVM: remove CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
  selftests/bpf: Avoid simplification of crafted bounds test
  selftests/bpf: Test refinement of single-value tnum
  bpf: Improve bounds when tnum has a single possible value
  bpf: Introduce tnum_step to step through tnum's members
  bpf: Fix race in devmap on PREEMPT_RT
  bpf: Fix race in cpumap on PREEMPT_RT
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for special fields races
  bpf: Retire rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() from local storage
  bpf: Delay freeing fields in local storage
  bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf()
  bpf: Register dtor for freeing special fields
  PCI: Correct PCI_CAP_EXP_ENDPOINT_SIZEOF_V2 value
  smb: client: Use snprintf in cifs_set_cifscreds
  mm/slab: initialize slab->stride early to avoid memory ordering issues
  smb: client: Don't log plaintext credentials in cifs_set_cifscreds
  smb: client: fix broken multichannel with krb5+signing
  ...
2026-03-05 10:55:47 +01:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 85c2a51357 docs: kdoc_parser: move nested match transforms to xforms_lists.py
As NestedMatch now has a sub method and a declaration close to
what KernRe does, we can move the rules to xforms_lists and
simplify kdoc_parser a little bit.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <762ce2a58ff024c1b0b6f6a6e05020d1415b8308.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab fc44c0a0b2 docs: kdoc_re: make NestedMatch use KernRe
Instead of using re_compile, let's create the class with the
regex and use KernRe to keep it cached.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <cdf900faf0ed8a08f8c6ac1db5a43342968c0739.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 34503b5fd1 docs: kdoc_re: Change NestedMath args replacement to \0
Future patches will allow parsing each argument instead of the
hole set. Prepare for it by changing the replace all args from
\1 to \0.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <46e383118be9d9e432e3814fe819ebb12261d7b4.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 962bdc440d docs: kdoc_re: don't recompile NestedMatch regex every time
Store delimiters and its regex-compiled version as const vars.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <0cf2b72d4785aa8b727188b56688ff442d1c65ce.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 134468b0e2 docs: kdoc_re: handle strings and escape chars on NextMatch
The logic inside NestedMatch currently doesn't consider that
function arguments may have chars and strings, which may
eventually contain delimiters.

Add logic to handle strings and escape characters on them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <ac25335bc2d09649e17d1c86c17d3f8f2e8ec27c.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab d842057c4a docs: kdoc_parser: move transform lists to a separate file
Over the time, most of the changes at kernel-doc are related
to maintaining a list of transforms to convert macros into pure
C code.

Place such transforms on a separate module, to cleanup the
parser module.

There is an advantage on that: QEMU also uses our own kernel-doc,
but the xforms list there is different. By placing it on a
separate module, we can minimize the differences and make it
easier to keep QEMU in sync with Kernel upstream.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <ccd74b7589e1fff340a74bf8ed16a974532cb54f.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 95a9429cc6 docs: kdoc_re: better show KernRe() at documentation
the __repr__() function is used by autodoc to document macro
initialization.

Add a better representation for them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <80d27732368c14125c1b76048a70d8b4aee527ef.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:25 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9bff5121fe docs: kdoc_parser: add support for LIST_HEAD
Convert LIST_HEAD into struct list_head when handling its
prototype.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <8bdfa6ba6002b0a73a83660f0ce7b40e30124552.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:24 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6d9c2e9575 docs: kdoc_parser: fix parser to support multi-word types
The regular expression currently expects a single word for the
type, but it may be something like  "struct foo".

Add support for it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <544c73a9e670b6fef1828bf4f2ba0de7d29d8675.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:24 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b7dc635459 docs: kdoc_parser: don't exclude defaults from prototype
If we do that, the defaults won't be parsed.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <cedf2a819846d2f082388e9ba3d95047c35df6fd.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-03 10:47:24 -07:00