Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Add support for 'syn'.
Syn is a parsing library for parsing a stream of Rust tokens into a
syntax tree of Rust source code.
Currently this library is geared toward use in Rust procedural
macros, but contains some APIs that may be useful more generally.
'syn' allows us to greatly simplify writing complex macros such as
'pin-init' (Benno has already prepared the 'syn'-based version). We
will use it in the 'macros' crate too.
'syn' is the most downloaded Rust crate (according to crates.io),
and it is also used by the Rust compiler itself. While the amount
of code is substantial, there should not be many updates needed for
these crates, and even if there are, they should not be too big,
e.g. +7k -3k lines across the 3 crates in the last year.
'syn' requires two smaller dependencies: 'quote' and 'proc-macro2'.
I only modified their code to remove a third dependency
('unicode-ident') and to add the SPDX identifiers. The code can be
easily verified to exactly match upstream with the provided
scripts.
They are all licensed under "Apache-2.0 OR MIT", like the other
vendored 'alloc' crate we had for a while.
Please see the merge commit with the cover letter for more context.
- Allow 'unreachable_pub' and 'clippy::disallowed_names' for
doctests.
Examples (i.e. doctests) may want to do things like show public
items and use names such as 'foo'.
Nevertheless, we still try to keep examples as close to real code
as possible (this is part of why running Clippy on doctests is
important for us, e.g. for safety comments, which userspace Rust
does not support yet but we are stricter).
'kernel' crate:
- Replace our custom 'CStr' type with 'core::ffi::CStr'.
Using the standard library type reduces our custom code footprint,
and we retain needed custom functionality through an extension
trait and a new 'fmt!' macro which replaces the previous 'core'
import.
This started in 6.17 and continued in 6.18, and we finally land the
replacement now. This required quite some stamina from Tamir, who
split the changes in steps to prepare for the flag day change here.
- Replace 'kernel::c_str!' with C string literals.
C string literals were added in Rust 1.77, which produce '&CStr's
(the 'core' one), so now we can write:
c"hi"
instead of:
c_str!("hi")
- Add 'num' module for numerical features.
It includes the 'Integer' trait, implemented for all primitive
integer types.
It also includes the 'Bounded' integer wrapping type: an integer
value that requires only the 'N' least significant bits of the
wrapped type to be encoded:
// An unsigned 8-bit integer, of which only the 4 LSBs are used.
let v = Bounded::<u8, 4>::new::<15>();
assert_eq!(v.get(), 15);
'Bounded' is useful to e.g. enforce guarantees when working with
bitfields that have an arbitrary number of bits.
Values can also be constructed from simple non-constant expressions
or, for more complex ones, validated at runtime.
'Bounded' also comes with comparison and arithmetic operations
(with both their backing type and other 'Bounded's with a
compatible backing type), casts to change the backing type,
extending/shrinking and infallible/fallible conversions from/to
primitives as applicable.
- 'rbtree' module: add immutable cursor ('Cursor').
It enables to use just an immutable tree reference where
appropriate. The existing fully-featured mutable cursor is renamed
to 'CursorMut'.
kallsyms:
- Fix wrong "big" kernel symbol type read from procfs.
'pin-init' crate:
- A couple minor fixes (Benno asked me to pick these patches up for
him this cycle).
Documentation:
- Quick Start guide: add Debian 13 (Trixie).
Debian Stable is now able to build Linux, since Debian 13 (released
2025-08-09) packages Rust 1.85.0, which is recent enough.
We are planning to propose that the minimum supported Rust version
in Linux follows Debian Stable releases, with Debian 13 being the
first one we upgrade to, i.e. Rust 1.85.
MAINTAINERS:
- Add entry for the new 'num' module.
- Remove Alex as Rust maintainer: he hasn't had the time to
contribute for a few years now, so it is a no-op change in
practice.
And a few other cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'rust-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (53 commits)
rust: macros: support `proc-macro2`, `quote` and `syn`
rust: syn: enable support in kbuild
rust: syn: add `README.md`
rust: syn: remove `unicode-ident` dependency
rust: syn: add SPDX License Identifiers
rust: syn: import crate
rust: quote: enable support in kbuild
rust: quote: add `README.md`
rust: quote: add SPDX License Identifiers
rust: quote: import crate
rust: proc-macro2: enable support in kbuild
rust: proc-macro2: add `README.md`
rust: proc-macro2: remove `unicode_ident` dependency
rust: proc-macro2: add SPDX License Identifiers
rust: proc-macro2: import crate
rust: kbuild: support using libraries in `rustc_procmacro`
rust: kbuild: support skipping flags in `rustc_test_library`
rust: kbuild: add proc macro library support
rust: kbuild: simplify `--cfg` handling
rust: kbuild: introduce `core-flags` and `core-skip_flags`
...
The future move of pin-init to `syn` uncovers the following broken
intra-doc link:
error: unresolved link to `crate::pin_init`
--> rust/kernel/sync/condvar.rs:39:40
|
39 | /// instances is with the [`pin_init`](crate::pin_init!) and [`new_condvar`] macros.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no item named `pin_init` in module `kernel`
|
= note: `-D rustdoc::broken-intra-doc-links` implied by `-D warnings`
= help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]`
Currently, when rendered, the link points to a literal `crate::pin_init!`
URL.
Thus fix it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 129e97be8e ("rust: pin-init: fix documentation links")
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029073344.349341-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
`kernel::ffi::CStr` was introduced in commit d126d23801 ("rust: str:
add `CStr` type") in November 2022 as an upstreaming of earlier work
that was done in May 2021[0]. That earlier work, having predated the
inclusion of `CStr` in `core`, largely duplicated the implementation of
`std::ffi::CStr`.
`std::ffi::CStr` was moved to `core::ffi::CStr` in Rust 1.64 in
September 2022. Hence replace `kernel::str::CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
to reduce our custom code footprint, and retain needed custom
functionality through an extension trait.
Add `CStr` to `ffi` and the kernel prelude.
Link: faa3cbcca0 [0]
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251018-cstr-core-v18-16-9378a54385f8@gmail.com
[ Removed assert that would now depend on the Rust version. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Extract the 'pin-init' API from the 'kernel' crate and make it into
a standalone crate.
In order to do this, the contents are rearranged so that they can
easily be kept in sync with the version maintained out-of-tree that
other projects have started to use too (or plan to, like QEMU).
This will reduce the maintenance burden for Benno, who will now
have his own sub-tree, and will simplify future expected changes
like the move to use 'syn' to simplify the implementation.
- Add '#[test]'-like support based on KUnit.
We already had doctests support based on KUnit, which takes the
examples in our Rust documentation and runs them under KUnit.
Now, we are adding the beginning of the support for "normal" tests,
similar to those the '#[test]' tests in userspace Rust. For
instance:
#[kunit_tests(my_suite)]
mod tests {
#[test]
fn my_test() {
assert_eq!(1 + 1, 2);
}
}
Unlike with doctests, the 'assert*!'s do not map to the KUnit
assertion APIs yet.
- Check Rust signatures at compile time for functions called from C
by name.
In particular, introduce a new '#[export]' macro that can be placed
in the Rust function definition. It will ensure that the function
declaration on the C side matches the signature on the Rust
function:
#[export]
pub unsafe extern "C" fn my_function(a: u8, b: i32) -> usize {
// ...
}
The macro essentially forces the compiler to compare the types of
the actual Rust function and the 'bindgen'-processed C signature.
These cases are rare so far. In the future, we may consider
introducing another tool, 'cbindgen', to generate C headers
automatically. Even then, having these functions explicitly marked
may be a good idea anyway.
- Enable the 'raw_ref_op' Rust feature: it is already stable, and
allows us to use the new '&raw' syntax, avoiding a couple macros.
After everyone has migrated, we will disallow the macros.
- Pass the correct target to 'bindgen' on Usermode Linux.
- Fix 'rusttest' build in macOS.
'kernel' crate:
- New 'hrtimer' module: add support for setting up intrusive timers
without allocating when starting the timer. Add support for
'Pin<Box<_>>', 'Arc<_>', 'Pin<&_>' and 'Pin<&mut _>' as pointer
types for use with timer callbacks. Add support for setting clock
source and timer mode.
- New 'dma' module: add a simple DMA coherent allocator abstraction
and a test sample driver.
- 'list' module: make the linked list 'Cursor' point between
elements, rather than at an element, which is more convenient to us
and allows for cursors to empty lists; and document it with
examples of how to perform common operations with the provided
methods.
- 'str' module: implement a few traits for 'BStr' as well as the
'strip_prefix()' method.
- 'sync' module: add 'Arc::as_ptr'.
- 'alloc' module: add 'Box::into_pin'.
- 'error' module: extend the 'Result' documentation, including a few
examples on different ways of handling errors, a warning about
using methods that may panic, and links to external documentation.
'macros' crate:
- 'module' macro: add the 'authors' key to support multiple authors.
The original key will be kept until everyone has migrated.
Documentation:
- Add error handling sections.
MAINTAINERS:
- Add Danilo Krummrich as reviewer of the Rust "subsystem".
- Add 'RUST [PIN-INIT]' entry with Benno Lossin as maintainer. It has
its own sub-tree.
- Add sub-tree for 'RUST [ALLOC]'.
- Add 'DMA MAPPING HELPERS DEVICE DRIVER API [RUST]' entry with
Abdiel Janulgue as primary maintainer. It will go through the
sub-tree of the 'RUST [ALLOC]' entry.
- Add 'HIGH-RESOLUTION TIMERS [RUST]' entry with Andreas Hindborg as
maintainer. It has its own sub-tree.
And a few other cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'rust-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (71 commits)
rust: dma: add `Send` implementation for `CoherentAllocation`
rust: macros: fix `make rusttest` build on macOS
rust: block: refactor to use `&raw mut`
rust: enable `raw_ref_op` feature
rust: uaccess: name the correct function
rust: rbtree: fix comments referring to Box instead of KBox
rust: hrtimer: add maintainer entry
rust: hrtimer: add clocksource selection through `ClockId`
rust: hrtimer: add `HrTimerMode`
rust: hrtimer: implement `HrTimerPointer` for `Pin<Box<T>>`
rust: alloc: add `Box::into_pin`
rust: hrtimer: implement `UnsafeHrTimerPointer` for `Pin<&mut T>`
rust: hrtimer: implement `UnsafeHrTimerPointer` for `Pin<&T>`
rust: hrtimer: add `hrtimer::ScopedHrTimerPointer`
rust: hrtimer: add `UnsafeHrTimerPointer`
rust: hrtimer: allow timer restart from timer handler
rust: str: implement `strip_prefix` for `BStr`
rust: str: implement `AsRef<BStr>` for `[u8]` and `BStr`
rust: str: implement `Index` for `BStr`
rust: str: implement `PartialEq` for `BStr`
...
Rename relative paths inside of the crate to still refer to the same
items, also rename paths inside of the kernel crate and adjust the build
system to build the crate.
[ Remove the `expect` (and thus the `lint_reasons` feature) since
the tree now uses `quote!` from `rust/macros/export.rs`. Remove the
`TokenStream` import removal, since it is now used as well.
In addition, temporarily (i.e. just for this commit) use an `--extern
force:alloc` to prevent an unknown `new_uninit` error in the `rustdoc`
target. For context, please see a similar case in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240422090644.525520-1-ojeda@kernel.org/
And adjusted the message above. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Fiona Behrens <me@kloenk.dev>
Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250308110339.2997091-16-benno.lossin@proton.me
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
To support waiting for a `CondVar` as a freezable process, add a
wait_interruptible_freezable() function.
Binder needs this function in the appropriate places to freeze a process
where some of its threads are blocked on the Binder driver.
[ Boqun: Cleaned up the changelog and documentation. ]
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307232717.1759087-10-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Currently FFI integer types are defined in libcore. This commit creates
the `ffi` crate and asks bindgen to use that crate for FFI integer types
instead of `core::ffi`.
This commit is preparatory and no type changes are made in this commit
yet.
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913213041.395655-4-gary@garyguo.net
[ Added `rustdoc`, `rusttest` and KUnit tests support. Rebased on top of
`rust-next` (e.g. migrated more `core::ffi` cases). Reworded crate
docs slightly and formatted. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Rust 1.58.0 (before Rust was merged into the kernel) made Clippy's
`non_send_fields_in_send_ty` lint part of the `suspicious` lint group for
a brief window of time [1] until the minor version 1.58.1 got released
a week after, where the lint was moved back to `nursery`.
By that time, we had already upgraded to that Rust version, and thus we
had `allow`ed the lint here for `CondVar`.
Nowadays, Clippy's `non_send_fields_in_send_ty` would still trigger here
if it were enabled.
Moreover, if enabled, `Lock<T, B>` and `Task` would also require an
`allow`. Therefore, it does not seem like someone is actually enabling it
(in, e.g., a custom flags build).
Finally, the lint does not appear to have had major improvements since
then [2].
Thus remove the `allow` since it is unneeded.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#version-1581-2022-01-20 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/8045 [2]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Tested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904204347.168520-11-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Rust's `unused_imports` lint covers both unused and redundant imports.
In the upcoming 1.78.0, the lint detects more cases of redundant imports
[1], e.g.:
error: the item `bindings` is imported redundantly
--> rust/kernel/print.rs:38:9
|
38 | use crate::bindings;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the item `bindings` is already defined by prelude
Most cases are `use crate::bindings`, plus a few other items like `Box`.
Thus clean them up.
Note that, in the `bindings` case, the message "defined by prelude"
above means the extern prelude, i.e. the `--extern` flags we pass.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117772 [1]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401212303.537355-3-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Currently, all macros are reexported with #[macro_export] only, which
means that to access `new_work!` from the workqueue, you need to import
it from the path `kernel::new_work` instead of importing it from the
workqueue module like all other items in the workqueue. By adding
reexports of the macros, it becomes possible to import the macros from
the correct modules.
It's still possible to import the macros from the root, but I don't
think we can do anything about that.
There is no functional change. This is merely a code cleanliness
improvement.
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129145837.1419880-1-aliceryhl@google.com
[ Removed new `use kernel::prelude::*`s, reworded title. ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reduce the chances of compilation failures due to integer type
mismatches in `CondVar`.
When an integer is defined using a #define in C, bindgen doesn't know
which integer type it is supposed to be, so it will just use `u32` by
default (if it fits in an u32). Whenever the right type is something
else, we insert a cast in Rust. However, this means that the code has a
lot of extra casts, and sometimes the code will be missing casts if u32
happens to be correct on the developer's machine, even though the type
might be something else on a different platform.
This patch updates all uses of such constants in
`rust/kernel/sync/condvar.rs` to use constants defined with the right
type. This allows us to remove various unnecessary casts, while also
future-proofing for the case where `unsigned int != u32` (even though
that is unlikely to ever happen in the kernel).
I wrote this patch at the suggestion of Benno in [1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nAEg-6vbtX72ZY3oirDhrSEf06TBWmMiTt73EklMzEAzN4FD4mF3TPEyAOxBZgZtjzoiaBYtYr3s8sa9wp1uYH9vEWRf2M-Lf4I0BY9rAgk=@proton.me/ [1]
Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Tiago Lam <tiagolam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240108-rb-new-condvar-methods-v4-4-88e0c871cc05@google.com
[ Added note on the unlikeliness of `sizeof(int)` changing. ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Sleep on a condition variable with a timeout.
This is used by Rust Binder for process freezing. There, we want to
sleep until the freeze operation completes, but we want to be able to
abort the process freezing if it doesn't complete within some timeout.
Note that it is not enough to avoid jiffies by introducing a variant of
`CondVar::wait_timeout` that takes the timeout in msecs because we need
to be able to restart the sleep with the remaining sleep duration if it
is interrupted, and if the API takes msecs rather than jiffies, then
that would require a conversion roundtrip jiffies->msecs->jiffies that
is best avoided.
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tiago Lam <tiagolam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240108-rb-new-condvar-methods-v4-3-88e0c871cc05@google.com
[ Added `CondVarTimeoutResult` re-export and fixed typo. ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Wake up another thread synchronously.
This method behaves like `notify_one`, except that it hints to the
scheduler that the current thread is about to go to sleep, so it should
schedule the target thread on the same CPU.
This is used by Rust Binder as a performance optimization. When sending
a transaction to a different process, we usually know which thread will
handle it, so we can schedule that thread for execution next on this
CPU for better cache locality.
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tiago Lam <tiagolam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240108-rb-new-condvar-methods-v4-1-88e0c871cc05@google.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>