doc/sphinx/hxtool.py: add optional label argument to SRST directive

We can't just embed labels directly into files like qemu-options.hx which
are included from multiple top-level rST files, because Sphinx sees the
labels as duplicate: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/9707

So add an optional argument to the SRST directive which causes a label
of the form '.. _DOCNAME-HXFILE-LABEL:' to be emitted, where 'DOCNAME'
is the name of the top level rST file, 'HXFILE' is the filename of the
.hx file, and 'LABEL' is the text provided within the 'SRST()' directive.
Using the DOCNAME of the top-level rST document means that it is unique
even when the .hx file is included from two different documents, as is
the case for qemu-options.hx

Now where the Xen PV documentation refers to the documentation for the
-initrd command line option, it can emit a link directly to it as
'<system/invocation-qemu-options-initrd>'.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20240130190348.682912-1-dwmw2@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/devel/docs.rst b/docs/devel/docs.rst
index 7da067905b..50ff0d67f8 100644
--- a/docs/devel/docs.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/docs.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ nor the documentation output.
 
 ``SRST`` starts a reStructuredText section. Following lines
 are put into the documentation verbatim, and discarded from the C output.
+The alternative form ``SRST()`` is used to define a label which can be
+referenced from elsewhere in the rST documentation. The label will take
+the form ``<DOCNAME-HXFILE-LABEL>``, where ``DOCNAME`` is the name of the
+top level rST file, ``HXFILE`` is the filename of the .hx file without
+the ``.hx`` extension, and ``LABEL`` is the text provided within the
+``SRST()`` directive. For example,
+``<system/invocation-qemu-options-initrd>``.
 
 ``ERST`` ends the documentation section started with ``SRST``,
 and switches back to a C code section.
@@ -53,8 +60,9 @@ text, but in ``hmp-commands.hx`` the C code sections are elements
 of an array of structs of type ``HMPCommand`` which define the
 name, behaviour and help text for each monitor command.
 
-In the file ``qemu-options.hx``, do not try to define a
+In the file ``qemu-options.hx``, do not try to explicitly define a
 reStructuredText label within a documentation section. This file
 is included into two separate Sphinx documents, and some
 versions of Sphinx will complain about the duplicate label
-that results.
+that results. Use the ``SRST()`` directive documented above, to
+emit an unambiguous label.