kernel-doc: add support for handling global variables

Specially on kAPI, sometimes it is desirable to be able to
describe global variables that are part of kAPI.

Documenting vars with Sphinx is simple, as we don't need
to parse a data struct. All we need is the variable
declaration and use native C domain ::c:var: to format it
for us.

Add support for it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/491c3022-cef8-4860-a945-c9c4a3b63c09@infradead.org/T/#m947c25d95cb1d96a394410ab1131dc8e9e5013f1
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <fa7d1c61a8de9150f71b318382f1507d3b13848d.1765894964.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 500aafc50032..06bed1a12a45 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ type_param = KernRe(r"@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)", cache=False)
 # Tests for the beginning of a kerneldoc block in its various forms.
 #
 doc_block = doc_com + KernRe(r'DOC:\s*(.*)?', cache=False)
-doc_begin_data = KernRe(r"^\s*\*?\s*(struct|union|enum|typedef)\b\s*(\w*)", cache = False)
+doc_begin_data = KernRe(r"^\s*\*?\s*(struct|union|enum|typedef|var)\b\s*(\w*)", cache = False)
 doc_begin_func = KernRe(str(doc_com) +			# initial " * '
                         r"(?:\w+\s*\*\s*)?" + 		# type (not captured)
                         r'(?:define\s+)?' + 		# possible "define" (not captured)
@@ -927,6 +927,58 @@ class KernelDoc:
         self.output_declaration('enum', declaration_name,
                                 purpose=self.entry.declaration_purpose)
 
+    def dump_var(self, ln, proto):
+        """
+        Store variables that are part of kAPI.
+        """
+        VAR_ATTRIBS = [
+            "extern",
+        ]
+        OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR = "^(?:" + "|".join(VAR_ATTRIBS) + ")?"
+
+        sub_prefixes = [
+            (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
+            (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
+            (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
+            (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
+            (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
+            (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
+        ]
+
+        #
+        # Store the full prototype before modifying it
+        #
+        full_proto = proto
+
+        #
+        # Drop comments and macros to have a pure C prototype
+        #
+        for search, sub in sub_prefixes:
+            proto = search.sub(sub, proto)
+
+        proto = proto.rstrip()
+
+        #
+        # Variable name is at the end of the declaration
+        #
+
+        r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"\w.*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
+        if not r.match(proto):
+           self.emit_msg(ln,f"{proto}: can't parse variable")
+           return
+
+        var_type = r.group(0)
+        declaration_name = r.group(1)
+        default_val = r.group(2)
+        if default_val:
+            default_val = default_val.lstrip("=").strip()
+
+        self.output_declaration("var", declaration_name,
+                                full_proto=full_proto,
+                                var_type=var_type,
+                                default_val=default_val,
+                                purpose=self.entry.declaration_purpose)
+
     def dump_declaration(self, ln, prototype):
         """
         Stores a data declaration inside self.entries array.
@@ -938,6 +990,8 @@ class KernelDoc:
             self.dump_typedef(ln, prototype)
         elif self.entry.decl_type in ["union", "struct"]:
             self.dump_struct(ln, prototype)
+        elif self.entry.decl_type == "var":
+            self.dump_var(ln, prototype)
         else:
             # This would be a bug
             self.emit_message(ln, f'Unknown declaration type: {self.entry.decl_type}')