Move the last SPECIAL_SECTION special case into the proper handler
function, getting rid of more if/then/else logic. The leading-space
tracking was tightened up a bit in the move. Add some comments describing
what is going on.
No changes to the generated output.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-10-corbet@lwn.net
Now that the function can actually fit into a human brain, add a few
comments. While I was at it, I switched to the trim_whitespace() helper
rather than open-coding it.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-9-corbet@lwn.net
Separate out the end-of-comment logic into its own helper and remove the
duplicated code introduced earlier.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-8-corbet@lwn.net
Move the recognition of this state to when we enter it, rather than when we
exit, eliminating some twisty logic along the way.
Some changes in output do result from this shift, generally for kerneldoc
comments that do not quite fit the format. See, for example,
struct irqdomain. As far as I can tell, the new behavior is more correct
in each case.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-7-corbet@lwn.net
Merge the duplicated code back into a single implementation. Code movement
only, no logic changes.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-6-corbet@lwn.net
The state known as BODY_WITH_BLANK_LINE really, in a convoluted way,
indicates a "special section" that is terminated by a blank line or the
beginning of a new section. That is either "@param: desc" sections, or the
weird "context" section that plays by the same rules.
Rename the state to SPECIAL_SECTION and split its processing into a
separate function; no real changes to the logic yet.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-5-corbet@lwn.net
The BODY_MAYBE state really describes the "we are in a declaration" state.
Rename it accordingly, and split the handling of this state out from that
of the other BODY* states. This change introduces a fair amount of
duplicated code that will be coalesced in a later patch.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-4-corbet@lwn.net
Pull the repeated "begin a section" logic into a single place and hide it
within the KernelEntry class.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-3-corbet@lwn.net
The regex in the BODY_WITH_BLANK_LINE case was looking for lines starting
with " * ", where exactly one space was allowed before the following text.
There are many kerneldoc comments where the authors have put multiple
spaces instead, leading to mis-formatting of the documentation.
Specifically, in this case, the description portion is associated with the
last of the parameters.
Allow multiple spaces in this context.
See, for example, synchronize_hardirq() and how its documentation is
formatted before and after the change.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250621203512.223189-2-corbet@lwn.net
Add some comments to process_name() to cover its broad phases of operation,
and slightly restructure the if/then/else structure to remove some early
returns.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-10-corbet@lwn.net
Move two complex regexes up with the other patterns, decluttering this
function and allowing the compilation to be done once rather than for every
kerneldoc comment.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-9-corbet@lwn.net
The code testing for a pointer declaration in process_name() has no actual
effect on subsequent actions; remove it.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-8-corbet@lwn.net
The entry.descr value used in process_name() is not actually a member of
the KernelEntry class; it is a bit of local state. So just manage it
locally.
A trim_whitespace() helper was added to clean up the code slightly.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-7-corbet@lwn.net
entry::is_kernel_comment never had anything to do with the entry itself; it
is a bit of local state in one branch of process_name(). It can, in fact,
be removed entirely; rework the code slightly so that it is no longer
needed.
No change in the rendered output.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-6-corbet@lwn.net
process_name() looks for the first line of a kerneldoc comment. It
contains two nearly identical regular expressions, the second of which only
catches six cases in the kernel, all of the form:
define SOME_MACRO_NAME - description
Simply put the "define" into the regex and discard it, eliminating the loop
and the code to remove it specially.
Note that this still treats these defines as if they were functions, but
that's a separate issue.
There is no change in the generated output.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-5-corbet@lwn.net
It is only used in one place, so just put the constant string
"Introduction" there so people don't have to go looking for it.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-4-corbet@lwn.net
Since all of the handlers already nicely have the same prototype, put them
into a table and call them from there and take out the extended
if-then-else series.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-3-corbet@lwn.net
The support for dropping "_noprof" missed dropping the suffix from
exported symbols. That meant that using the :export: feature would
look for kernel-doc for (eg) krealloc_noprof() and not find the
kernel-doc for krealloc().
Fixes: 51a7bf0238 (scripts/kernel-doc: drop "_noprof" on function prototypes)
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606141543.1285671-1-willy@infradead.org
The KernelDoc class is too complex. Start optimizing it by
placing the kernel-doc parser entry to a separate class.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <28b456f726a022011f0ce5810dbcc26827c1403a.1745564565.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The script library here contain just classes. Remove execution
permission.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <be0b0a5bde82fa09027a5083f8202f150581eb4e.1745564565.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Typedefs like
typedef struct phylink_pcs *(*pcs_xlate_t)(const u64 *args);
have a typedef_type that ends with a * and therefore has no word
boundary. Add an extra clause for the final group of the typedef_type so
we only require a word boundary if we match a word.
[mchehab: modify also kernel-doc.py, as we're deprecating the perl version]
Fixes: 7d2c6b1edf ("scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs")
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e0abb103c73a96d76602d909f60ab8fd6e2fd0bd.1744106242.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Change the logic which detects internal/external symbols in a way
that we can re-use it when calling via Sphinx extension.
While here, remove an unused self.config var and let it clearer
that self.config variables are read-only. This helps to allow
handling multiple times in parallel if ever needed.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6a69ba8d2b7ee6a6427abb53e60d09bd4d3565ee.1744106242.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
The filtering logic was seeking for the DOC name to check for
symbols, but such data is stored only inside a section. Add it
to the output_declaration, as it is quicker/easier to check
the declaration name than to check inside each section.
While here, make sure that the output for both ReST and man
after filtering will be similar to what kernel-doc Perl
version does.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6d8b77af85295452c0191863ea1041f4195aeaaf.1744106242.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
With the Pyhton version, the actual output happens after parsing,
from records stored at self.entries.
Ensure that line numbers will be properly stored there and
that they'll produce the desired results at the ReST output.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5182a531d14b5fe9e1fc5da5f9dae05d66852a60.1744106242.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
