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Fix kernel-doc processing of SYSCALL wrappers.

The SYSCALL wrapper patches played havoc with kernel-doc for
syscalls.  Syscalls that were scanned for DocBook processing
reported warnings like this one, for sys_tgkill:

Warning(kernel/signal.c:2285): No description found for parameter 'tgkill'
Warning(kernel/signal.c:2285): No description found for parameter 'pid_t'
Warning(kernel/signal.c:2285): No description found for parameter 'int'

because the macro parameters all "look like" function parameters,
although they are not:

/**
 *  sys_tgkill - send signal to one specific thread
 *  @tgid: the thread group ID of the thread
 *  @pid: the PID of the thread
 *  @sig: signal to be sent
 *
 *  This syscall also checks the @tgid and returns -ESRCH even if the PID
 *  exists but it's not belonging to the target process anymore. This
 *  method solves the problem of threads exiting and PIDs getting reused.
 */
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(tgkill, pid_t, tgid, pid_t, pid, int, sig)
{
...

This patch special-cases the handling SYSCALL_DEFINE* function
prototypes by expanding them to
	long sys_foobar(type1 arg1, type1 arg2, ...)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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rddunlap authored and torvalds committed Feb 11, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -1827,6 +1827,40 @@ sub reset_state {
$state = 0;
}

sub syscall_munge() {
my $void = 0;

$prototype =~ s@[\r\n\t]+@ @gos; # strip newlines/CR's/tabs
## if ($prototype =~ m/SYSCALL_DEFINE0\s*\(\s*(a-zA-Z0-9_)*\s*\)/) {
if ($prototype =~ m/SYSCALL_DEFINE0/) {
$void = 1;
## $prototype = "long sys_$1(void)";
}

$prototype =~ s/SYSCALL_DEFINE.*\(/long sys_/; # fix return type & func name
if ($prototype =~ m/long (sys_.*?),/) {
$prototype =~ s/,/\(/;
} elsif ($void) {
$prototype =~ s/\)/\(void\)/;
}

# now delete all of the odd-number commas in $prototype
# so that arg types & arg names don't have a comma between them
my $count = 0;
my $len = length($prototype);
if ($void) {
$len = 0; # skip the for-loop
}
for (my $ix = 0; $ix < $len; $ix++) {
if (substr($prototype, $ix, 1) eq ',') {
$count++;
if ($count % 2 == 1) {
substr($prototype, $ix, 1) = ' ';
}
}
}
}

sub process_state3_function($$) {
my $x = shift;
my $file = shift;
Expand All @@ -1839,11 +1873,15 @@ sub process_state3_function($$) {
elsif ($x =~ /([^\{]*)/) {
$prototype .= $1;
}

if (($x =~ /\{/) || ($x =~ /\#\s*define/) || ($x =~ /;/)) {
$prototype =~ s@/\*.*?\*/@@gos; # strip comments.
$prototype =~ s@[\r\n]+@ @gos; # strip newlines/cr's.
$prototype =~ s@^\s+@@gos; # strip leading spaces
dump_function($prototype,$file);
if ($prototype =~ /SYSCALL_DEFINE/) {
syscall_munge();
}
dump_function($prototype, $file);
reset_state();
}
}
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