[PATCH 1/3] Docs: An initial automarkup extension for sphinx

[Jonathan Corbet]

Rather than fill our text files with :c:func:`function()` syntax, just do
the markup via a hook into the sphinx build process.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/conf.py              |  3 +-
 Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 7ace3f8852bd..a502baecbb85 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ needs_sphinx = '1.3'
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
 # ones.
-extensions = ['kerneldoc', 'rstFlatTable', 'kernel_include', 'cdomain', 'kfigure', 'sphinx.ext.ifconfig']
+extensions = ['kerneldoc', 'rstFlatTable', 'kernel_include', 'cdomain',
+              'kfigure', 'sphinx.ext.ifconfig', 'automarkup']
 
 # The name of the math extension changed on Sphinx 1.4
 if (major == 1 and minor > 3) or (major > 1):
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..14b09b5d145e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright 2019 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
+#
+# Apply kernel-specific tweaks after the initial document processing
+# has been done.
+#
+from docutils import nodes
+from sphinx import addnodes
+import re
+
+#
+# Regex nastiness.  Of course.
+# Try to identify "function()" that's not already marked up some
+# other way.  Sphinx doesn't like a lot of stuff right after a
+# :c:func: block (i.e. ":c:func:`mmap()`s" flakes out), so the last
+# bit tries to restrict matches to things that won't create trouble.
+#
+RE_function = re.compile(r'([\w_][\w\d_]+\(\))')
+
+#
+# The DVB docs create references for these basic system calls, leading
+# to lots of confusing links.  So just don't link them.
+#
+Skipfuncs = [ 'open', 'close', 'write' ]
+
+#
+# Find all occurrences of function() and try to replace them with
+# appropriate cross references.
+#
+def markup_funcs(docname, app, node):
+    cdom = app.env.domains['c']
+    t = node.astext()
+    done = 0
+    repl = [ ]
+    for m in RE_function.finditer(t):
+        #
+        # Include any text prior to function() as a normal text node.
+        #
+        if m.start() > done:
+            repl.append(nodes.Text(t[done:m.start()]))
+        #
+        # Go through the dance of getting an xref out of the C domain
+        #
+        target = m.group(1)[:-2]
+        target_text = nodes.Text(target + '()')
+        xref = None
+        if target not in Skipfuncs:
+            lit_text = nodes.literal(classes=['xref', 'c', 'c-func'])
+            lit_text += target_text
+            pxref = addnodes.pending_xref('', refdomain = 'c',
+                                          reftype = 'function',
+                                          reftarget = target, modname = None,
+                                          classname = None)
+            xref = cdom.resolve_xref(app.env, docname, app.builder,
+                                     'function', target, pxref, lit_text)
+        #
+        # Toss the xref into the list if we got it; otherwise just put
+        # the function text.
+        #
+        if xref:
+            repl.append(xref)
+        else:
+            repl.append(target_text)
+        done = m.end()
+    if done < len(t):
+        repl.append(nodes.Text(t[done:]))
+    return repl
+
+def auto_markup(app, doctree, name):
+    for para in doctree.traverse(nodes.paragraph):
+        for node in para.traverse(nodes.Text):
+            if not isinstance(node.parent, nodes.literal):
+                node.parent.replace(node, markup_funcs(name, app, node))
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.connect('doctree-resolved', auto_markup)
+    return {
+        'parallel_read_safe': True,
+        'parallel_write_safe': True,
+        }
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