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# 5181afcd 14-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:

- Tran

Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:

- Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations,
Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the
beginnings of a Portuguese translation.

- New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
Python gbb scripts, and more.

- More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding
self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C
tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and
more.

- Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put
both into alphabetical order.

... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
improvements"

* tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits)
Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation
Documentation: Add managed interrupts
Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference
docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version
docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview
tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling
docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/
Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable
Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass
sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS
Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format
docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation
docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst
Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation"
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# 781171be 22-Mar-2026 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-mw

Mauro says:

This patch series change how kdoc parser handles macro replacements.

Instead of heavily relying on regular expressions that can sometimes
be very comp

Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-mw

Mauro says:

This patch series change how kdoc parser handles macro replacements.

Instead of heavily relying on regular expressions that can sometimes
be very complex, it uses a C lexical tokenizer. This ensures that
BEGIN/END blocks on functions and structs are properly handled,
even when nested.

Checking before/after the patch series, for both man pages and
rst only had:
- whitespace differences;
- struct_group macros now are shown as inner anonimous structs
as it should be.

Also, I didn't notice any relevant change on the documentation build
time. With that regards, right now, every time a CMatch replacement
rule takes in place, it does:

for each transform:
- tokenizes the source code;
- handle CMatch;
- convert tokens back to a string.

A possible optimization would be to do, instead:

- tokenizes source code;
- for each transform handle CMatch;
- convert tokens back to a string.

For now, I opted not do do it, because:

- too much changes on a single row;
- docs build time is taking ~3:30 minutes, which is
about the same time it ws taken before the changes;
- there is a very dirty hack inside function_xforms:
(KernRe(r"_noprof"), ""). This is meant to change
function prototypes instead of function arguments.

So, if ok for you, I would prefer to merge this one first. We can later
optimize kdoc_parser to avoid multiple token <-> string conversions.

-

One important aspect of this series is that it introduces unittests
for kernel-doc. I used it a lot during the development of this series,
to ensure that the changes I was doing were producing the expected
results. Tests are on two separate files that can be executed directly.

Alternatively, there is a run.py script that runs all of them (and
any other python script named tools/unittests/test_*.py"):

$ tools/unittests/run.py
test_cmatch:
TestSearch:
test_search_acquires_multiple: OK
test_search_acquires_nested_paren: OK
test_search_acquires_simple: OK
test_search_must_hold: OK
test_search_must_hold_shared: OK
test_search_no_false_positive: OK
test_search_no_function: OK
test_search_no_macro_remains: OK
TestSubMultipleMacros:
test_acquires_multiple: OK
test_acquires_nested_paren: OK
test_acquires_simple: OK
test_mixed_macros: OK
test_must_hold: OK
test_must_hold_shared: OK
test_no_false_positive: OK
test_no_function: OK
test_no_macro_remains: OK
TestSubSimple:
test_rise_early_greedy: OK
test_rise_multiple_greedy: OK
test_strip_multiple_acquires: OK
test_sub_count_parameter: OK
test_sub_mixed_placeholders: OK
test_sub_multiple_placeholders: OK
test_sub_no_placeholder: OK
test_sub_single_placeholder: OK
test_sub_with_capture: OK
test_sub_zero_placeholder: OK
TestSubWithLocalXforms:
test_functions_with_acquires_and_releases: OK
test_raw_struct_group: OK
test_raw_struct_group_tagged: OK
test_struct_group: OK
test_struct_group_attr: OK
test_struct_group_tagged_with_private: OK
test_struct_kcov: OK
test_vars_stackdepot: OK

test_tokenizer:
TestPublicPrivate:
test_balanced_inner_private: OK
test_balanced_non_greddy_private: OK
test_balanced_private: OK
test_no private: OK
test_unbalanced_inner_private: OK
test_unbalanced_private: OK
test_unbalanced_struct_group_tagged_with_private: OK
test_unbalanced_two_struct_group_tagged_first_with_private: OK
test_unbalanced_without_end_of_line: OK
TestTokenizer:
test_basic_tokens: OK
test_depth_counters: OK
test_mismatch_error: OK

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# 023aabb6 17-Mar-2026 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

docs: python: add helpers to run unit tests

While python internal libraries have support for unit tests, its
output is not nice. Add a helper module to improve its output.

I wrote this module last

docs: python: add helpers to run unit tests

While python internal libraries have support for unit tests, its
output is not nice. Add a helper module to improve its output.

I wrote this module last year while testing some scripts I used
internally. The initial skeleton was generated with the help of
LLM tools, but it was higly modified to ensure that it will work
as I would expect.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <37999041f616ddef41e84cf2686c0264d1a51dc9.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <d81be167b8cdeb003c1f8dcc7ad83a5ed2b520b6.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

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