docs: networking: convert gen_stats.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- mark lists as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Documentation/networking/gen_stats.rst

@@ -1,27 +1,34 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===============================================
 Generic networking statistics for netlink users
-======================================================================
+===============================================
 
 Statistic counters are grouped into structs:
 
+==================== ===================== =====================
 Struct               TLV type              Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+==================== ===================== =====================
 gnet_stats_basic     TCA_STATS_BASIC       Basic statistics
 gnet_stats_rate_est  TCA_STATS_RATE_EST    Rate estimator
 gnet_stats_queue     TCA_STATS_QUEUE       Queue statistics
 none                 TCA_STATS_APP         Application specific
+==================== ===================== =====================
 
 
 Collecting:
 -----------
 
-Declare the statistic structs you need:
+Declare the statistic structs you need::
+
 	struct mystruct {
 		struct gnet_stats_basic	bstats;
 		struct gnet_stats_queue	qstats;
 		...
 	};
 
-Update statistics, in dequeue() methods only, (while owning qdisc->running)
+Update statistics, in dequeue() methods only, (while owning qdisc->running)::
+
 	mystruct->tstats.packet++;
 	mystruct->qstats.backlog += skb->pkt_len;
 
@@ -29,6 +36,8 @@ mystruct->qstats.backlog += skb->pkt_len;
 Export to userspace (Dump):
 ---------------------------
 
+::
+
     my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...)
     {
 	    struct gnet_dump dump;
@@ -52,7 +61,7 @@ TCA_STATS/TCA_XSTATS backward compatibility:
 
 Prior users of struct tc_stats and xstats can maintain backward
 compatibility by calling the compat wrappers to keep providing the
-existing TLV types.
+existing TLV types::
 
     my_dumping_routine(struct sk_buff *skb, ...)
     {
@@ -77,7 +86,7 @@ are responsible for making sure that the lock is initialized.
 
 
 Rate Estimator:
---------------
+---------------
 
 0) Prepare an estimator attribute. Most likely this would be in user
    space. The value of this TLV should contain a tc_estimator structure.
@@ -92,10 +101,11 @@ Rate Estimator:
    TCA_RATE to your code in the kernel.
 
 In the kernel when setting up:
+
 1) make sure you have basic stats and rate stats setup first.
 2) make sure you have initialized stats lock that is used to setup such
    stats.
-3) Now initialize a new estimator:
+3) Now initialize a new estimator::
 
     int ret = gen_new_estimator(my_basicstats,my_rate_est_stats,
 	mystats_lock, attr_with_tcestimator_struct);
@@ -115,5 +125,5 @@ are still valid (i.e still exist) at the time of making this call.
 
 Authors:
 --------
-Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
-Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
+- Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
+- Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>

Documentation/networking/index.rst

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Contents:
    framerelay
    generic-hdlc
    generic_netlink
+   gen_stats
 
 .. only::  subproject and html
 

net/core/gen_stats.c

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *           Jamal Hadi Salim
  *           Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
  *
- * See Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt
+ * See Documentation/networking/gen_stats.rst
  */
 
 #include <linux/types.h>