Reorganize process_export() to eliminate duplicated code, don't look for
exports in states where we don't expect them, and don't bother with normal
state-machine processing if an export declaration has been found.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The type_param regex matches "@..." just fine, so the special-case branch
for that in dump_section() is never executed. Just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Rather than having other code mucking around with this bit of internal
state, encapsulate it internally. Accumulate the description as a list of
strings, joining them at the end, which is a more efficient way of building
the text.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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
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
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
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
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
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
