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5 daysdocs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapperMauro Carvalho Chehab
The makefile logic to detect if rust is enabled is not working the way it was expected: instead of using the current setup for CONFIG_RUST, it uses a cached version from a previous build. The root cause is that the current logic inside docs/Makefile uses a cached version of CONFIG_RUST, from the last time a non documentation target was executed. That's perfectly fine for Sphinx build, as it doesn't need to read or depend on any CONFIG_*. So, instead of relying at the cache, move the logic to the wrapper script and let it check the current content of .config, to verify if CONFIG_RUST was selected. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <c06b1834ef02099735c13ee1109fa2a2b9e47795.1763722971.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-11-18docs: bring some order to our Python module hierarchyJonathan Corbet
Now that we have tools/lib/python for our Python modules, turn them into proper packages with a single namespace so that everything can just use tools/lib/python in sys.path. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251110220430.726665-3-corbet@lwn.net>
2025-11-18docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/pythonJonathan Corbet
"scripts/lib" was always a bit of an awkward place for Python modules. We already have tools/lib; create a tools/lib/python, move the libraries there, and update the users accordingly. While at it, move the contents of tools/docs/lib. Rather than make another directory, just put these documentation-oriented modules under "kdoc". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251110220430.726665-2-corbet@lwn.net>
2025-10-29tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper: Emit $SPHINXOPTS later in args listAkira Yokosawa
The option list to sphinx-build via SPHINXOPTS should have higher priority than those the wrapper comes up with. sphinx-build will choose the latest one if there are duplicates. To restore the behavior of Makefile era, when the documentation builds at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/ had been depending on it, reorder the flag list. Reported-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251007-awesome-guan-of-greatness-e6ec75@lemur/ Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/c35e690f-0579-49cb-850c-07af98e5253a@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <eaf4bfd8-fb80-45d0-b3ec-4047692ebbed@gmail.com>
2025-10-08tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: -q is a boolean, not an integerMauro Carvalho Chehab
As reported by Konstantin, sphinx-build -q is a boolean, not an integer. Fix the code. Reported-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/871pnepxfy.fsf@trenco.lwn.net/ Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <cafa10cddce3e5342a66c73f3f51a17fb6c7f5d3.1759851791.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-10-01tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: pdflatex is needed only for pdfMauro Carvalho Chehab
Fix the logic which checks for pdflatex. Currently, it complains for both pdfdocs and latexdocs, but for the latter, all it is needed is Sphinx. Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/cover.1758881658.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/T/#ma81ff2e11b8579e5edc23e4381e464081ae668b7 Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <313df7b4aab653e8fc40c30120c0dbebf8a0bcb1.1759328070.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-09-25tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper: allow skipping sphinx-build stepMauro Carvalho Chehab
Most targets have two steps: - step 1: run sphinx-build; - step 2: run a post-build logic. The second step can be as simple as copying static files like CSS, but may may also envolve running make. allowing to skip the first step helps debugging what's broken, and also allows using make command line arguments like --ignore-errors. Add an option to skip step 1. Requested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/5031e0c4-f17e-41b8-8955-959989e797f2@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <30dae295606ae1735f3bbeef4ca041a76dcd4540.1758539031.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-09-25tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: fix compat with recent TumbleweedMauro Carvalho Chehab
On recent versions of openSUSE Tumbleweed, sphinx-buildis is no longer a Python script, but something else. Such change is due to how it now handles alternatives: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Migrating_to_libalternatives_with_alts The most common approach that distros use for alternatives is via symlinks: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 out 31 2024 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 mar 5 2025 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk/bin/java With such approach, one can sun the script with either: <sphinx> python3 <script> However, openSUSE's implementation uses an ELF binary (/usr/bin/alts), which breaks the latter format. It is needed to allow users to specify the Python version to be used while building docs, as some distros like Leap 15.x are shipped with: - older, unsupported python3/python3-sphinx packages; - more modern python3xx/python3xx-sphinx packages that work properly. On such distros, building docs require running make with: make PYTHON3=python3.11 htmldocs Heh, even on more moderen distros where python3-sphinx is supported, one may still want to use a newer package, for instance, due to performance issues, as: - with Python < 3.11, kernel-doc is 3 times slower; - while building htmldocs with Python 3.13/Sphinx 8.x takes about 3 minutes on a modern machine, using Sphinx < 8.0 can take up to 16 minutes to build docs (7.x are the worse ones and require lots of RAM). So, even with not too old distros, one still may want to use for instance PYTHON3=python3.11. To acommodate using PYTHON3 without breaking on Tumbleweed, add a workaround that will only use: $(PYTHON3) sphinx-build if PYTHON3 env var is not default. While here, drop the special check for venv, as, with venv, we can just call sphinx-build directly without any extra checks. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/883df949-0281-4a39-8745-bcdcce3a5594@infradead.org/ Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <8917f862e0b8484c68408c274129c9f37a7aefb4.1758539031.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-09-21docs: conf.py: get rid of load_config.pyMauro Carvalho Chehab
The code here was meant to handle 3 functions: 1. allow having a separate conf.py file, per subdir; 2. generate a list of latex documents. 3. set "subproject" tag if SPHINXDIRS points to a subdir. We don't have (1) anymore, and (3) is now properly handled entirely inside conf.py. So, only (3) is still needed, and this is a single-line change at conf.py. So, drop it, moving the remaining code to conf.py. While here, drop a duplicated $(RUSTDOC) command-line argument. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <ec998f9f268a401ca6aa36e3221d39c97efeccaa.1758361087.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-09-21tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: handle sphinx-build errorsMauro Carvalho Chehab
If sphinx-build returns an error, exit the script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <b7e152291fadd91694cbb6b086caefa4b6470fdd.1758361087.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add support to run inside venvMauro Carvalho Chehab
Sometimes, it is desired to run Sphinx from a virtual environment. Add a command line parameter to automatically build Sphinx from such environment. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <e34fa63a61e75a0ec86b37c9b5fafa6677f44c6c.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-* break documentation bulds on openSUSEMauro Carvalho Chehab
Before this patch, building htmldocs on opensuseLEAP works fine: # make htmldocs Available Python versions: /usr/bin/python3.11 Python 3.6.15 not supported. Changing to /usr/bin/python3.11 Python 3.6.15 not supported. Changing to /usr/bin/python3.11 Using alabaster theme Using Python kernel-doc ... As the logic detects that Python 3.6 is too old and recommends intalling python311-Sphinx. If installed, documentation builds work like a charm. Yet, some develpers complained that running python3.11 instead of python3 should not happen. So, let's break the build to make them happier: $ make htmldocs Python 3.6.15 not supported. Bailing out You could run, instead: /usr/bin/python3.11 tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper htmldocs \ --sphinxdirs=. --conf=conf.py --builddir=Documentation/output --theme= --css= \ --paper= Python 3.6.15 not supported. Bailing out make[2]: *** [Documentation/Makefile:76: htmldocs] Error 1 make[1]: *** [Makefile:1806: htmldocs] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2 It should be noticed that: 1. after this change, sphinx-pre-install needs to be called by hand: $ /usr/bin/python3.11 tools/docs/sphinx-pre-install Detected OS: openSUSE Leap 15.6. Sphinx version: 7.2.6 All optional dependencies are met. Needed package dependencies are met. 2. sphinx-build-wrapper will auto-detect python3.11 and suggest a way to build the docs using the parameters passed via make variables. In this specific example: /usr/bin/python3.11 tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper htmldocs --sphinxdirs=. --conf=conf.py --theme= --css= --paper= 3. As this needs to be executed outside docs Makefile, it won't run the validation check scripts nor build Rust documentation if enabled, as the extra scripts are part of the docs Makefile. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <0635c311295300e9fb48c0ea607e2408910036e3.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: move rust doc builder to wrapperMauro Carvalho Chehab
Simplify even further the docs Makefile by moving rust build logic to the wrapper. After this change, running make on an environment with rust enabled works as expected. With CONFIG_RUST: $ make O=/tmp/foo LLVM=1 SPHINXDIRS=peci htmldocs make[1]: Entrando no diretório '/tmp/foo' Using alabaster theme Using Python kernel-doc GEN Makefile DESCEND objtool CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s INSTALL libsubcmd_headers CALL /new_devel/docs/scripts/checksyscalls.sh RUSTC L rust/core.o BINDGEN rust/bindings/bindings_generated.rs BINDGEN rust/bindings/bindings_helpers_generated.rs ... Without it: $ make SPHINXDIRS=peci htmldocs Using alabaster theme Using Python kernel-doc Both work as it is it is supposed to do. After the change, it is also possible to build directly with the script by passing "--rustodoc". if CONFIG_RUST, this works fine: $ ./tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper --sphinxdirs peci --rustdoc -- htmldocs Using alabaster theme Using Python kernel-doc SYNC include/config/auto.conf ... RUSTC L rust/core.o ... If not, it will produce a warning that RUST may be disabled: $ ./tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper --sphinxdirs peci --rustdoc -- htmldocs Using alabaster theme Using Python kernel-doc *** *** Configuration file ".config" not found! *** *** Please run some configurator (e.g. "make oldconfig" or *** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig"). *** make[1]: *** [/new_devel/docs/Makefile:829: .config] Error 1 make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2 Ignored errors when building rustdoc: Command '['make', 'LLVM=1', 'rustdoc']' returned non-zero exit status 2.. Is RUST enabled? Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <fa1235ccf859f6ebfeef7ffba0ebde2015a75042.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18docs: add support to build manpages from kerneldoc outputMauro Carvalho Chehab
Generating man files currently requires running a separate script. The target also doesn't appear at the docs Makefile. Add support for mandocs at the Makefile, adding the build logic inside sphinx-build-wrapper, updating documentation and dropping the ancillary script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <3d248d724e7f3154f6e3a227e5923d7360201de9.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: Fix output for duplicated namesMauro Carvalho Chehab
When SPHINXDIRS is used, basename may be identical for different files. If this happens, the summary and error detection won't be accurate. Fix it by using relative names from builddir. While here, don't duplicate names. Report, instead: - SUCCESS output PDF file was built - FAILED latexmk/xelatex didn't build any PDF output - FAILED: no .tex files were generated Sphinx didn't build any tex file for SPHINXDIRS directories - FAILED ({python exception}) When a concurrent.futures is catched. Usually indicates an internal error at the build logic. With that, building multiple dirs with the same name is reported properly: $ make V=1 SPHINXDIRS="admin-guide/media driver-api/media userspace-api/media" pdfdocs Summary ======= admin-guide/media/pdf/media.pdf : SUCCESS driver-api/media/pdf/media.pdf : SUCCESS userspace-api/media/pdf/media.pdf: SUCCESS And if at least one of them fails, return code will be 1. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <d4a4f16f6c0c423ad38531a490888be3bf01e574.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs,scripts: sphinx-*: prevent sphinx-build crashesMauro Carvalho Chehab
On a properly set system, LANG and LC_ALL is always defined. However, some distros like Debian, Gentoo and their variants start with those undefioned. When Sphinx tries to set a locale with: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') It raises an exception, making Sphinx fail. This is more likely to happen with test containers. Add a logic to detect and workaround such issue by setting locale to C. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <1d0afad8fe3d83182be3a08eb00dd71322e23e69.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow building PDF files in parallelMauro Carvalho Chehab
Use POSIX jobserver when available or -j<number> to run PDF builds in parallel, restoring pdf build performance. Yet, running it when debugging troubles is a bad idea, so, when calling directly via command line, except if "-j" is splicitly requested, it will serialize the build. With such change, a PDF doc builds now takes around 5 minutes on a Ryzen 9 machine with 32 cpu threads: # Explicitly paralelize both Sphinx and LaTeX pdf builds $ make cleandocs; time scripts/sphinx-build-wrapper pdfdocs -j 33 real 5m17.901s user 15m1.499s sys 2m31.482s # Use POSIX jobserver to paralelize both sphinx-build and LaTeX $ make cleandocs; time make pdfdocs real 5m22.369s user 15m9.076s sys 2m31.419s # Serializes PDF build, while keeping Sphinx parallelized. # it is equivalent of passing -jauto via command line $ make cleandocs; time scripts/sphinx-build-wrapper pdfdocs real 11m20.901s user 13m2.910s sys 1m44.553s Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <42eef319f9af6f9feb12bcd74ca6392c8119929d.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add an argument for LaTeX interactive modeMauro Carvalho Chehab
By default, we use LaTeX batch mode to build docs. This way, when an error happens, the build fails. This is good for normal builds, but when debugging problems with pdf generation, the best is to use interactive mode. We already support it via LATEXOPTS, but having a command line argument makes it easier: Interactive mode: ./scripts/sphinx-build-wrapper pdfdocs --sphinxdirs peci -v -i ... Running 'xelatex --no-pdf -no-pdf -recorder ".../Documentation/output/peci/latex/peci.tex"' ... Default batch mode: ./scripts/sphinx-build-wrapper pdfdocs --sphinxdirs peci -v ... Running 'xelatex --no-pdf -no-pdf -interaction=batchmode -no-shell-escape -recorder ".../Documentation/output/peci/latex/peci.tex"' ... Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <9e5b9a8becc981b47ca3bf3ddce034f273400738.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-18tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: add a wrapper for sphinx-buildMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are too much magic inside docs Makefile to properly run sphinx-build. Create an ancillary script that contains all kernel-related sphinx-build call logic currently at Makefile. Such script is designed to work both as an standalone command and as part of a Makefile. As such, it properly handles POSIX jobserver used by GNU make. On a side note, there was a line number increase due to the conversion (ignoring comments) is: Documentation/Makefile | 131 +++---------- tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper | 293 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-) Comments and descriptions adds: tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- So, about half of the script are comments/descriptions. This is because some things are more verbosed on Python and because it requires reading env vars from Makefile. Besides it, this script has some extra features that don't exist at the Makefile: - It can be called directly from command line; - It properly return PDF build errors. When running the script alone, it will only take handle sphinx-build targets. On other words, it won't runn make rustdoc after building htmlfiles, nor it will run the extra check scripts. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <80ae57b01fcfb1d338d93b8f8e26e57b69b5f16b.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>