Re: rcu kernel-doc issues (4.14-rc1)
From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 10:21:17 EST
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:30:01AM +0200, Markus Heiser wrote:
>
> > Am 18.09.2017 um 04:40 schrieb Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> [...]
> > And after some playing around, I did get rid of the error messages.
> > The code-block output looks a bit strange though, hints? I preceded
> > the code block with "::", again at Akira's suggestion. It looks fine
> > except for the :c:func: and backquotes on the first and last lines.
> >
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > :c:func:`rcu_read_lock()`;
> > p = rcu_dereference(gp);
> > long_lived = is_long_lived(p);
> > if (long_lived) {
> > if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(p->refcnt))
> > long_lived = false;
> > else
> > p = rcu_pointer_handoff(p);
> > }
> > :c:func:`rcu_read_unlock()`;
>
> FYI:
>
> such replacements in code-blocks are comming from the "Highlights
> and cross-references" see:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html#highlights-and-cross-references
>
> and this is still a bug in the kernel-doc parser:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg14409.html
Thank you for the pointer! I will try it out. Except that v4.14-rc1
apparently needs a later version of sphinx...
Thanx, Paul