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2026-03-22docs: use logo.svg as faviconRito Rhymes
Use the existing documentation logo as the HTML favicon. This makes generated documentation pages use a matching browser tab icon without introducing a separate favicon asset. Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260321125532.9568-1-rito@ritovision.com>
2026-03-22Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-mwJonathan Corbet
This series comes after: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/cover.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/ It basically contains patches I submitted before on a 40+ patch series, but were less relevant, plus a couple of other minor fixes: - patch 1 improves one of the CTokenizer unit test, fixing some potential issues on it; - patches 2 and 3 contain some improvement/fixes for Sphinx Python autodoc extension. They basically document c_lex.py; - The remaining patches: - create a new class for kernel-doc config; - fix some internal representations of KdocItem; - add unit tests for KernelDoc() parser class; - add support to output KdocItem in YAML, which is a machine-readable output for all documented kAPI. None of the patches should affect man or html output.
2026-03-22docs: kernel-doc: add support to store output on a YAML fileMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: add a new file to write kernel-doc output to a YAML fileMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: test_kdoc_parser: add support for dynamic test creationMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: add a simple kdoc-test.yaml together with a validation toolMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: add a schema to help creating unittests for kernel-docMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: unittests: add a parser to test kernel-doc parser logicMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_item: fix a typo on sections_start_linesMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_item: add support to generate a KdocItem from a dictMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_item: fix initial value for parameterdesc_start_linesMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_files: move output symbols logic to kdoc_outputMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_files: use a class to group config parametersMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: add c_lex to generated documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_re: better represent long regular expressionsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22unittests: test_tokenizer: better handle mismatch errorMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-mwJonathan Corbet
Mauro says: This patch series change how kdoc parser handles macro replacements. Instead of heavily relying on regular expressions that can sometimes be very complex, it uses a C lexical tokenizer. This ensures that BEGIN/END blocks on functions and structs are properly handled, even when nested. Checking before/after the patch series, for both man pages and rst only had: - whitespace differences; - struct_group macros now are shown as inner anonimous structs as it should be. Also, I didn't notice any relevant change on the documentation build time. With that regards, right now, every time a CMatch replacement rule takes in place, it does: for each transform: - tokenizes the source code; - handle CMatch; - convert tokens back to a string. A possible optimization would be to do, instead: - tokenizes source code; - for each transform handle CMatch; - convert tokens back to a string. For now, I opted not do do it, because: - too much changes on a single row; - docs build time is taking ~3:30 minutes, which is about the same time it ws taken before the changes; - there is a very dirty hack inside function_xforms: (KernRe(r"_noprof"), ""). This is meant to change function prototypes instead of function arguments. So, if ok for you, I would prefer to merge this one first. We can later optimize kdoc_parser to avoid multiple token <-> string conversions. - One important aspect of this series is that it introduces unittests for kernel-doc. I used it a lot during the development of this series, to ensure that the changes I was doing were producing the expected results. Tests are on two separate files that can be executed directly. Alternatively, there is a run.py script that runs all of them (and any other python script named tools/unittests/test_*.py"): $ tools/unittests/run.py 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 TestSubMultipleMacros: test_acquires_multiple: OK test_acquires_nested_paren: OK test_acquires_simple: OK test_mixed_macros: OK test_must_hold: OK test_must_hold_shared: OK test_no_false_positive: OK test_no_function: OK test_no_macro_remains: OK TestSubSimple: test_rise_early_greedy: OK test_rise_multiple_greedy: OK test_strip_multiple_acquires: OK test_sub_count_parameter: OK test_sub_mixed_placeholders: OK test_sub_multiple_placeholders: OK test_sub_no_placeholder: OK test_sub_single_placeholder: OK test_sub_with_capture: OK test_sub_zero_placeholder: OK TestSubWithLocalXforms: test_functions_with_acquires_and_releases: OK test_raw_struct_group: OK test_raw_struct_group_tagged: OK test_struct_group: OK test_struct_group_attr: OK test_struct_group_tagged_with_private: OK test_struct_kcov: OK test_vars_stackdepot: OK test_tokenizer: 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 TestTokenizer: test_basic_tokens: OK test_depth_counters: OK test_mismatch_error: OK Ran 47 tests
2026-03-22docs: xforms_lists: use CMatch for all identifiersMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_parser: avoid tokenizing structs everytimeMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: ensure that comments are dropped before calling split_struct_proto()Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kernel-doc.rst: document private: scope propagationMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: c_lex: setup a logger to report tokenizer issuesMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: xforms_lists: better evaluate struct_group macrosMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: xforms_lists: handle struct_group directlyMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_re: get rid of NestedMatch classMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: replace NestedMatch with CMatchMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22unittests: test_cmatch: add tests for sub()Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: c_lex: properly implement a sub() method for CMatchMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22tools: unittests: add tests for CMatchMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: create a CMatch to match nested C blocksMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22unittests: add a runner to execute all unittestsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22unittests: test_tokenizer: check if the tokenizer worksMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22unittests: test_private: modify it to use CTokenizer directlyMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: use tokenizer to handle comments on structsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: add a C tokenizer to be used by kernel-docMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: properly handle empty enum argumentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypesMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22unittests: add a testbench to check public/private kdoc commentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22docs: python: add helpers to run unit testsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2026-03-22tools/docs/checktransupdate.py: fix all issues reported by pylintHaoyang LIU
This patch fixes all issues reported by pylint, including: 1. Format issue in logging. 2. Variable name style issue. Fixes: 63e96ce050e5 ("scripts: fix all issues reported by pylint") Signed-off-by: Haoyang LIU <tttturtleruss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260309074716.10739-1-tttturtleruss@gmail.com>
2026-03-22docs: path-lookup: fix unrenamed WALK_GETDaniel Tang
The symbol WALK_GET does not appears in the codebase as of 0031c06807cfa8aa. It was renamed as of 8f64fb1ccef33107. A previous documentation update, de9414adafe4, renamed one occurrence in path-lookup.rst, but forgot to change another occurrence later in the file. Fixes: de9414adafe4 ("docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc") Signed-off-by: Daniel Tang <danielzgtg.opensource@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <13011949.O9o76ZdvQC@daniel-desktop3>
2026-03-22coccinelle: update Coccinelle URLJulia Lawall
The LIP6 URL no longer functions. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260310121431.362091-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
2026-03-22docs: reporting-issues: create a proper appendix explaining specialtiesThorsten Leemhuis
Merge "Why some bugs remain unfixed and some reports are ignored" with the closing words while rewriting and extending the text. The result spends fewer words on explaining things that are normal in FLOSS -- while outlining where the kernel is different and how that makes bug reporting more complicated than in other FLOSS projects. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <473b36fa9723c46b7167004752f097e6c26d7278.1773750701.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
2026-03-22docs: verify-bugs-… and quickly-build-…: improve feedback sectionThorsten Leemhuis
Mention sending patches in the section about feedback. This syncs them with a section a earlier patch added to reporting-issues.rst, which was based on these sections and improved during review. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <cb219ccd15271bfb99ecce01dcbdbb03cccd7be1.1773750701.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
2026-03-22docs: reporting-issues: add conclusion to the step-by-step guideThorsten Leemhuis
Text based on a section Documentation/admin-guide/verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions.rst and slightly improved after review feedback. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <bc18f678b6854879dc7691ecbb762d717da4baa3.1773750701.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
2026-03-22docs: reporting-issues: tweak the reference section introThorsten Leemhuis
Fine tuning to the intro of the reference section: * Call the step-by-step guide what it is. * Reorder the links to the guides on bug reporting to first mention the most modern one. * Many small changes to streamline the text and slightly shorten it. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <cd3ae7b1724d3b16b86488166f756a976e0ee83a.1773750701.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
2026-03-22docs: reporting-issues: mention text is best viewed renderedThorsten Leemhuis
Add a comment before the step-by-step guide explaining that the document is best viewed in the rendered form, as there the internal links will work that later patches will add. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <f8e3577df4a231b66e8f638f7b41614bf15b49ab.1773750701.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
2026-03-22docs: pt_BR: translate process/1.Intro.rstDaniel Castro
Add Brazilian Portuguese translation of the development process introduction (Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst), covering the executive summary, importance of mainline code, and licensing. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Daniel Castro <arantescastro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260317140136.29256-1-arantescastro@gmail.com>
2026-03-22docs/pt_BR: translation of maintainer-soc-clean-dts.rstDaniel Pereira
Translate Documentation/process/maintainer-soc-clean-dts.rst into Portuguese. Signed-off-by: Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260319115416.495020-3-danielmaraboo@gmail.com>
2026-03-22docs/pt_BR: translation of maintainer-soc.rstDaniel Pereira
Translate Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst into Portuguese. This is part of the effort to localize the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260319115416.495020-2-danielmaraboo@gmail.com>