[PATCH] kernel-doc: fix syscall wrapper processing

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 23:24:42 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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