Re: [PATCH 00/10] Manually convert RCU text files to ReST format

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 13:58:22 EST


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:04:01PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> This patch series convert RCU patches to ReST.
>
> One interesting point to be noticed hereis that the RTFP.txt file contain a
> broken TeX bib file. I suspect that someone added some new articles
> directly there without trying to use LaTeX to check if the addition is
> valid. Or maybe it is just due to some version differences from the time
> such references were added.
>
> During the RTFP.txt conversion, I fixed the bibtex problems in order for it
> to be properly parsed by LaTeX, and used the fixed file to produce a list of
> the actually used references inside the RTFP.txt file., manually adding them
> to the converted RTFP.rst.
>
> As not all references were mentioned there, I opted to preserve the
> converted RTFP.bib, as it could be useful for someone doing any
> research around RCU.
>
> The results of those changes (together with other changes from my pending
> doc patches) are available at:
>
> https://www.infradead.org/~mchehab/kernel_docs/RCU/index.html
>
> And the series is on my git tree:
>
> https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=rcu-docs

I queued all but 7/10 and 8/10, for which I have the bibtex-to-ReST
conversion question. Thank you for dragging these files kicking and
screaming into the year 2020! ;-)

Thanx, Paul

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (10):
> docs: RCU: convert checklist.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: convert lockdep-splat.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: convert lockdep.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: convert rculist_nulls.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: convert torture.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: convert rcuref.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: RTFP: fix bibtex entries
> docs: RCU: convert RTFP.txt to ReST
> docs: RCU: stallwarn.txt: convert it to ReST
> docs: RCU: rculist_nulls.rst: don't duplicate chapter names
>
> Documentation/RCU/{RTFP.txt => RTFP.bib} | 323 ++--------
> Documentation/RCU/RTFP.rst | 593 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../RCU/{checklist.txt => checklist.rst} | 17 +-
> Documentation/RCU/index.rst | 11 +
> .../{lockdep-splat.txt => lockdep-splat.rst} | 99 +--
> .../RCU/{lockdep.txt => lockdep.rst} | 12 +-
> Documentation/RCU/rcu.rst | 4 +-
> Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst | 200 ++++++
> Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt | 172 -----
> Documentation/RCU/{rcuref.txt => rcuref.rst} | 193 +++---
> .../RCU/{stallwarn.txt => stallwarn.rst} | 55 +-
> .../RCU/{torture.txt => torture.rst} | 115 ++--
> Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst | 2 +-
> MAINTAINERS | 4 +-
> include/linux/rculist_nulls.h | 2 +-
> kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 2 +-
> kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 4 +-
> net/core/sock.c | 4 +-
> 18 files changed, 1139 insertions(+), 673 deletions(-)
> rename Documentation/RCU/{RTFP.txt => RTFP.bib} (82%)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/RCU/RTFP.rst
> rename Documentation/RCU/{checklist.txt => checklist.rst} (98%)
> rename Documentation/RCU/{lockdep-splat.txt => lockdep-splat.rst} (54%)
> rename Documentation/RCU/{lockdep.txt => lockdep.rst} (96%)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt
> rename Documentation/RCU/{rcuref.txt => rcuref.rst} (50%)
> rename Documentation/RCU/{stallwarn.txt => stallwarn.rst} (90%)
> rename Documentation/RCU/{torture.txt => torture.rst} (76%)
>
> --
> 2.25.2
>
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