linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix syscall wrapper processing

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Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:24:25 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, samr <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix syscall wrapper processing

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>

Fix kernel-doc processing of SYSCALL wrappers.

The SYSCALL wrapper patches played havoc with kernel-doc for
syscalls.  Syscalls that were scanned for DocBook processing
reported warnings like this one, for sys_tgkill:

Warning(kernel/signal.c:2285): No description found for parameter 'tgkill'
Warning(kernel/signal.c:2285): No description found for parameter 'pid_t'
Warning(kernel/signal.c:2285): No description found for parameter 'int'

because the macro parameters all "look like" function parameters,
although they are not:

/**
 *  sys_tgkill - send signal to one specific thread
 *  @tgid: the thread group ID of the thread
 *  @pid: the PID of the thread
 *  @sig: signal to be sent
 *
 *  This syscall also checks the @tgid and returns -ESRCH even if the PID
 *  exists but it's not belonging to the target process anymore. This
 *  method solves the problem of threads exiting and PIDs getting reused.
 */
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(tgkill, pid_t, tgid, pid_t, pid, int, sig)
{
...


This patch special-cases the handling SYSCALL_DEFINE* function
prototypes by expanding them to
	long sys_foobar(type1 arg1, type1 arg2, ...)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
---
 scripts/kernel-doc |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.29-rc3-git7.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ linux-2.6.29-rc3-git7/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1827,6 +1827,40 @@ sub reset_state {
     $state = 0;
 }
 
+sub syscall_munge() {
+	my $void = 0;
+
+	$prototype =~ s@[\r\n\t]+@ @gos; # strip newlines/CR's/tabs
+##	if ($prototype =~ m/SYSCALL_DEFINE0\s*\(\s*(a-zA-Z0-9_)*\s*\)/) {
+	if ($prototype =~ m/SYSCALL_DEFINE0/) {
+		$void = 1;
+##		$prototype = "long sys_$1(void)";
+	}
+
+	$prototype =~ s/SYSCALL_DEFINE.*\(/long sys_/; # fix return type & func name
+	if ($prototype =~ m/long (sys_.*?),/) {
+		$prototype =~ s/,/\(/;
+	} elsif ($void) {
+		$prototype =~ s/\)/\(void\)/;
+	}
+
+	# now delete all of the odd-number commas in $prototype
+	# so that arg types & arg names don't have a comma between them
+	my $count = 0;
+	my $len = length($prototype);
+	if ($void) {
+		$len = 0;	# skip the for-loop
+	}
+	for (my $ix = 0; $ix < $len; $ix++) {
+		if (substr($prototype, $ix, 1) eq ',') {
+			$count++;
+			if ($count % 2 == 1) {
+				substr($prototype, $ix, 1) = ' ';
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 sub process_state3_function($$) {
     my $x = shift;
     my $file = shift;
@@ -1839,11 +1873,15 @@ sub process_state3_function($$) {
     elsif ($x =~ /([^\{]*)/) {
 	$prototype .= $1;
     }
+
     if (($x =~ /\{/) || ($x =~ /\#\s*define/) || ($x =~ /;/)) {
 	$prototype =~ s@/\*.*?\*/@@gos;	# strip comments.
 	$prototype =~ s@[\r\n]+@ @gos; # strip newlines/cr's.
 	$prototype =~ s@^\s+@@gos; # strip leading spaces
-	dump_function($prototype,$file);
+	if ($prototype =~ /SYSCALL_DEFINE/) {
+		syscall_munge();
+	}
+	dump_function($prototype, $file);
 	reset_state();
     }
 }
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