linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/6] docs: Add awk section for ucount sysctl entries

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Message-Id: <20250701-jag-sysctldoc-v1-3-936912553f58@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:56:44 +0200
From: Joel Granados <joel.granados@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
 Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, 
 Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, 
 Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
 Joel Granados <joel.granados@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] docs: Add awk section for ucount sysctl entries

Adjust the sysctl table detection to include the macro pattern used for
the ucount ctl_tables. This prevents falsly assigning them as
non-documented ctl_tables

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/check-sysctl-docs | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
index 568197cb1c0a84147785f05aabbbc6ab9dd896bc..3166012b9c6ea4435dc77afaadcff3a4944b1ca8 100755
--- a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
+++ b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ curtable && /\.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*".+"/ {
     file[curentry] = FILENAME
 }
 
+curtable && /UCOUNT_ENTRY.*/ {
+    match($0, /UCOUNT_ENTRY\("([^"]+)"\)/, names)
+    curentry = names[1]
+    if (debug) print "Adding entry " curentry " to table " curtable
+    entries[curtable][curentry]++
+    file[curentry] = FILENAME
+}
+
 /register_sysctl.*/ {
     match($0, /register_sysctl(|_init|_sz)\("([^"]+)" *, *([^,)]+)/, tables)
     if (debug) print "Registering table " tables[3] " at " tables[2]

-- 
2.47.2