[PATCH 23/25] docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Date: Mon Jan 19 2026 - 11:23:34 EST


Make Sphinx handle better jobserver class documentation

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/python/jobserver.py | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py b/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py
index 616411087725..8da1973e5c87 100755
--- a/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py
@@ -11,20 +11,23 @@ Interacts with the POSIX jobserver during the Kernel build time.
A "normal" jobserver task, like the one initiated by a make subrocess would do:

- open read/write file descriptors to communicate with the job server;
- - ask for one slot by calling:
+ - ask for one slot by calling::
+
claim = os.read(reader, 1)
- - when the job finshes, call:
+
+ - when the job finshes, call::
+
os.write(writer, b"+") # os.write(writer, claim)

Here, the goal is different: This script aims to get the remaining number
of slots available, using all of them to run a command which handle tasks in
parallel. To to that, it has a loop that ends only after there are no
slots left. It then increments the number by one, in order to allow a
-call equivalent to make -j$((claim+1)), e.g. having a parent make creating
+call equivalent to ``make -j$((claim+1))``, e.g. having a parent make creating
$claim child to do the actual work.

The end goal here is to keep the total number of build tasks under the
-limit established by the initial make -j$n_proc call.
+limit established by the initial ``make -j$n_proc`` call.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/POSIX-Jobserver.html#POSIX-Jobserver
@@ -40,13 +43,14 @@ class JobserverExec:
Claim all slots from make using POSIX Jobserver.

The main methods here are:
+
- open(): reserves all slots;
- close(): method returns all used slots back to make;
- - run(): executes a command setting PARALLELISM=<available slots jobs + 1>
+ - run(): executes a command setting PARALLELISM=<available slots jobs + 1>.
"""

def __init__(self):
- """Initialize internal vars"""
+ """Initialize internal vars."""
self.claim = 0
self.jobs = b""
self.reader = None
@@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ class JobserverExec:
self.is_open = False

def open(self):
- """Reserve all available slots to be claimed later on"""
+ """Reserve all available slots to be claimed later on."""

if self.is_open:
return
@@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ class JobserverExec:
self.is_open = True

def close(self):
- """Return all reserved slots to Jobserver"""
+ """Return all reserved slots to Jobserver."""

if not self.is_open:
return
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