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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright 2019 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
+#
+# Apply kernel-specific tweaks after the initial document processing
+# has been done.
+#
+from docutils import nodes
+import sphinx
+from sphinx import addnodes
+if sphinx.version_info[0] < 2 or \
+   sphinx.version_info[0] == 2 and sphinx.version_info[1] < 1:
+    from sphinx.environment import NoUri
+else:
+    from sphinx.errors import NoUri
+import re
+from itertools import chain
+
+#
+# Python 2 lacks re.ASCII...
+#
+try:
+    ascii_p3 = re.ASCII
+except AttributeError:
+    ascii_p3 = 0
+
+#
+# Regex nastiness.  Of course.
+# Try to identify "function()" that's not already marked up some
+# other way.  Sphinx doesn't like a lot of stuff right after a
+# :c:func: block (i.e. ":c:func:`mmap()`s" flakes out), so the last
+# bit tries to restrict matches to things that won't create trouble.
+#
+RE_function = re.compile(r'\b(([a-zA-Z_]\w+)\(\))', flags=ascii_p3)
+
+#
+# Sphinx 2 uses the same :c:type role for struct, union, enum and typedef
+#
+RE_generic_type = re.compile(r'\b(struct|union|enum|typedef)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)',
+                             flags=ascii_p3)
+
+#
+# Sphinx 3 uses a different C role for each one of struct, union, enum and
+# typedef
+#
+RE_struct = re.compile(r'\b(struct)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=ascii_p3)
+RE_union = re.compile(r'\b(union)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=ascii_p3)
+RE_enum = re.compile(r'\b(enum)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=ascii_p3)
+RE_typedef = re.compile(r'\b(typedef)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=ascii_p3)
+
+#
+# Detects a reference to a documentation page of the form Documentation/... with
+# an optional extension
+#
+RE_doc = re.compile(r'\bDocumentation(/[\w\-_/]+)(\.\w+)*')
+
+RE_namespace = re.compile(r'^\s*..\s*c:namespace::\s*(\S+)\s*$')
+
+#
+# Reserved C words that we should skip when cross-referencing
+#
+Skipnames = [ 'for', 'if', 'register', 'sizeof', 'struct', 'unsigned' ]
+
+
+#
+# Many places in the docs refer to common system calls.  It is
+# pointless to try to cross-reference them and, as has been known
+# to happen, somebody defining a function by these names can lead
+# to the creation of incorrect and confusing cross references.  So
+# just don't even try with these names.
+#
+Skipfuncs = [ 'open', 'close', 'read', 'write', 'fcntl', 'mmap',
+              'select', 'poll', 'fork', 'execve', 'clone', 'ioctl',
+              'socket' ]
+
+c_namespace = ''
+
+def markup_refs(docname, app, node):
+    t = node.astext()
+    done = 0
+    repl = [ ]
+    #
+    # Associate each regex with the function that will markup its matches
+    #
+    markup_func_sphinx2 = {RE_doc: markup_doc_ref,
+                           RE_function: markup_c_ref,
+                           RE_generic_type: markup_c_ref}
+
+    markup_func_sphinx3 = {RE_doc: markup_doc_ref,
+                           RE_function: markup_func_ref_sphinx3,
+                           RE_struct: markup_c_ref,
+                           RE_union: markup_c_ref,
+                           RE_enum: markup_c_ref,
+                           RE_typedef: markup_c_ref}
+
+    if sphinx.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        markup_func = markup_func_sphinx3
+    else:
+        markup_func = markup_func_sphinx2
+
+    match_iterators = [regex.finditer(t) for regex in markup_func]
+    #
+    # Sort all references by the starting position in text
+    #
+    sorted_matches = sorted(chain(*match_iterators), key=lambda m: m.start())
+    for m in sorted_matches:
+        #
+        # Include any text prior to match as a normal text node.
+        #
+        if m.start() > done:
+            repl.append(nodes.Text(t[done:m.start()]))
+
+        #
+        # Call the function associated with the regex that matched this text and
+        # append its return to the text
+        #
+        repl.append(markup_func[m.re](docname, app, m))
+
+        done = m.end()
+    if done < len(t):
+        repl.append(nodes.Text(t[done:]))
+    return repl
+
+#
+# In sphinx3 we can cross-reference to C macro and function, each one with its
+# own C role, but both match the same regex, so we try both.
+#
+def markup_func_ref_sphinx3(docname, app, match):
+    class_str = ['c-func', 'c-macro']
+    reftype_str = ['function', 'macro']
+
+    cdom = app.env.domains['c']
+    #
+    # Go through the dance of getting an xref out of the C domain
+    #
+    base_target = match.group(2)
+    target_text = nodes.Text(match.group(0))
+    xref = None
+    possible_targets = [base_target]
+    # Check if this document has a namespace, and if so, try
+    # cross-referencing inside it first.
+    if c_namespace:
+        possible_targets.insert(0, c_namespace + "." + base_target)
+
+    if base_target not in Skipnames:
+        for target in possible_targets:
+            if target not in Skipfuncs:
+                for class_s, reftype_s in zip(class_str, reftype_str):
+                    lit_text = nodes.literal(classes=['xref', 'c', class_s])
+                    lit_text += target_text
+                    pxref = addnodes.pending_xref('', refdomain = 'c',
+                                                  reftype = reftype_s,
+                                                  reftarget = target, modname = None,
+                                                  classname = None)
+                    #
+                    # XXX The Latex builder will throw NoUri exceptions here,
+                    # work around that by ignoring them.
+                    #
+                    try:
+                        xref = cdom.resolve_xref(app.env, docname, app.builder,
+                                                 reftype_s, target, pxref,
+                                                 lit_text)
+                    except NoUri:
+                        xref = None
+
+                    if xref:
+                        return xref
+
+    return target_text
+
+def markup_c_ref(docname, app, match):
+    class_str = {# Sphinx 2 only
+                 RE_function: 'c-func',
+                 RE_generic_type: 'c-type',
+                 # Sphinx 3+ only
+                 RE_struct: 'c-struct',
+                 RE_union: 'c-union',
+                 RE_enum: 'c-enum',
+                 RE_typedef: 'c-type',
+                 }
+    reftype_str = {# Sphinx 2 only
+                   RE_function: 'function',
+                   RE_generic_type: 'type',
+                   # Sphinx 3+ only
+                   RE_struct: 'struct',
+                   RE_union: 'union',
+                   RE_enum: 'enum',
+                   RE_typedef: 'type',
+                   }
+
+    cdom = app.env.domains['c']
+    #
+    # Go through the dance of getting an xref out of the C domain
+    #
+    base_target = match.group(2)
+    target_text = nodes.Text(match.group(0))
+    xref = None
+    possible_targets = [base_target]
+    # Check if this document has a namespace, and if so, try
+    # cross-referencing inside it first.
+    if c_namespace:
+        possible_targets.insert(0, c_namespace + "." + base_target)
+
+    if base_target not in Skipnames:
+        for target in possible_targets:
+            if not (match.re == RE_function and target in Skipfuncs):
+                lit_text = nodes.literal(classes=['xref', 'c', class_str[match.re]])
+                lit_text += target_text
+                pxref = addnodes.pending_xref('', refdomain = 'c',
+                                              reftype = reftype_str[match.re],
+                                              reftarget = target, modname = None,
+                                              classname = None)
+                #
+                # XXX The Latex builder will throw NoUri exceptions here,
+                # work around that by ignoring them.
+                #
+                try:
+                    xref = cdom.resolve_xref(app.env, docname, app.builder,
+                                             reftype_str[match.re], target, pxref,
+                                             lit_text)
+                except NoUri:
+                    xref = None
+
+                if xref:
+                    return xref
+
+    return target_text
+
+#
+# Try to replace a documentation reference of the form Documentation/... with a
+# cross reference to that page
+#
+def markup_doc_ref(docname, app, match):
+    stddom = app.env.domains['std']
+    #
+    # Go through the dance of getting an xref out of the std domain
+    #
+    target = match.group(1)
+    xref = None
+    pxref = addnodes.pending_xref('', refdomain = 'std', reftype = 'doc',
+                                  reftarget = target, modname = None,
+                                  classname = None, refexplicit = False)
+    #
+    # XXX The Latex builder will throw NoUri exceptions here,
+    # work around that by ignoring them.
+    #
+    try:
+        xref = stddom.resolve_xref(app.env, docname, app.builder, 'doc',
+                                   target, pxref, None)
+    except NoUri:
+        xref = None
+    #
+    # Return the xref if we got it; otherwise just return the plain text.
+    #
+    if xref:
+        return xref
+    else:
+        return nodes.Text(match.group(0))
+
+def get_c_namespace(app, docname):
+    source = app.env.doc2path(docname)
+    with open(source) as f:
+        for l in f:
+            match = RE_namespace.search(l)
+            if match:
+                return match.group(1)
+    return ''
+
+def auto_markup(app, doctree, name):
+    global c_namespace
+    c_namespace = get_c_namespace(app, name)
+    #
+    # This loop could eventually be improved on.  Someday maybe we
+    # want a proper tree traversal with a lot of awareness of which
+    # kinds of nodes to prune.  But this works well for now.
+    #
+    # The nodes.literal test catches ``literal text``, its purpose is to
+    # avoid adding cross-references to functions that have been explicitly
+    # marked with cc:func:.
+    #
+    for para in doctree.traverse(nodes.paragraph):
+        for node in para.traverse(nodes.Text):
+            if not isinstance(node.parent, nodes.literal):
+                node.parent.replace(node, markup_refs(name, app, node))
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.connect('doctree-resolved', auto_markup)
+    return {
+        'parallel_read_safe': True,
+        'parallel_write_safe': True,
+        }