bpftool: Work-around rst2man conversion bug
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:17:07 +0000 (14:17 -0800)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:03:52 +0000 (17:03 -0800)
Work-around what appears to be a bug in rst2man convertion tool, used to
create man pages out of reStructureText-formatted documents. If text line
starts with dot, rst2man will put it in resulting man file verbatim. This
seems to cause man tool to interpret it as a directive/command (e.g., `.bs`), and
subsequently not render entire line because it's unrecognized one.

Enclose '.xxx' words in extra formatting to work around.

Fixes: cb21ac588546 ("bpftool: Add gen subcommand manpage")
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218221707.2552199-1-andriin@fb.com
tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-gen.rst

index b6a114bf908de19cbe6331e31e5b5457d0b19630..86a87da97d0bb69cde1e55aa73921a7c2279ace8 100644 (file)
@@ -112,13 +112,14 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
                  If BPF object has global variables, corresponding structs
                  with memory layout corresponding to global data data section
-                 layout will be created. Currently supported ones are: .data,
-                 .bss, .rodata, and .extern structs/data sections. These
-                 data sections/structs can be used to set up initial values of
-                 variables, if set before **example__load**. Afterwards, if
-                 target kernel supports memory-mapped BPF arrays, same
-                 structs can be used to fetch and update (non-read-only)
-                 data from userspace, with same simplicity as for BPF side.
+                 layout will be created. Currently supported ones are: *.data*,
+                 *.bss*, *.rodata*, and *.kconfig* structs/data sections.
+                 These data sections/structs can be used to set up initial
+                 values of variables, if set before **example__load**.
+                 Afterwards, if target kernel supports memory-mapped BPF
+                 arrays, same structs can be used to fetch and update
+                 (non-read-only) data from userspace, with same simplicity
+                 as for BPF side.
 
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