Hi all, Here's a first attempt at getting the kernel Rust support building on powerpc.
It's powerpc64le only for now, as that's what I can easily test given the distros I have installed. Though powerpc and powerpc64 are also Tier 2 platforms so in theory should work. Supporting those would require something more complicated than just pointing rustc at arch/$(ARCH)/rust/target.json. This is based on 832575d934a2 from the Rust-for-Linux tree. Anything newer gives me errors about symbol name lengths. I figured I'd send this anyway, as it seems like those errors are probably not powerpc specific. I'm not sure that all the values in target.json are correct, or required (or if any are missing), but what I have there seems to work. Would be happy for someone to scrutinise it though. Example output: # uname -r 5.12.0-rc3-47689-ge4e12dd7cb75 # uname -m ppc64le # modprobe rust_example Rust Example (init) Am I built-in? false Parameters: my_bool: true my_i32: 42 my_str: default str val my_usize: 42 my_array: [0, 1] Value: 10 Value: 10 Large array has length: 514 modprobe (1589) used greatest stack depth: 6800 bytes left # modprobe rust_example_2 [2] Rust Example (init) [2] Am I built-in? false [2] Parameters: [2] my_bool: true [2] my_i32: 42 [2] my_str: default str val [2] my_usize: 42 [2] my_array: [0, 1] Large array has length: 1028 modprobe (1593) used greatest stack depth: 3680 bytes left # modprobe rust_example_3 [3] Rust Example (init) [3] Am I built-in? false [3] Parameters: [3] my_bool: true [3] my_i32: 42 [3] my_str: default str val [3] my_usize: 42 [3] my_array: [0, 1] Large array has length: 1028 # modprobe rust_example_4 [4] Rust Example (init) [4] Am I built-in? false [4] Parameters: [4] my_bool: true [4] my_i32: 42 [4] my_str: default str val [4] my_usize: 42 [4] my_array: [0, 1] Large array has length: 1028 cheers Michael Ellerman (4): rust: Export symbols in initialized data section rust: Add powerpc64 as a 64-bit target_arch in c_types.rs powerpc/rust: Add target.json for ppc64le rust: Enable for ppc64le arch/powerpc/rust/target.json | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ init/Kconfig | 2 +- rust/Makefile | 2 +- rust/kernel/c_types.rs | 2 +- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/rust/target.json base-commit: 832575d934a2bc5e2fd0aa881d8e6b64bf062fd2 -- 2.25.1