kernel/linux.git/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst, branch v6.18.21

docs: rust: quick-start: update Ubuntu instructions

2025-05-22T22:12:14+00:00

Split installation instructions for Ubuntu into 2 different sections: - For Ubuntu 25.04: this release provides easy-to-install Rust packages. - For Ubuntu 24.10 and below: these releases provide rust-1.80 and bindgen-0.65, which do not set their tools as defaults. The instructions for these versions have been updated to configure Rust tools properly. Signed-off-by: Igor Korotin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402160047.1827500-1-igor.korotin@yahoo.com [ Dropped 24.10 -- it is soon out of support and their `bindgen` issue (reported as issue #2086639) was never patched anyway. Removed trailing spaces. Split into subheaders. Added `rustfmt` link. Removed spurious backquotes. Reworded contents slightly. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: remove leftover mentions of the `alloc` crate

2025-03-05T22:55:56+00:00

In commit 392e34b6bc22 ("kbuild: rust: remove the `alloc` crate and `GlobalAlloc`") we stopped using the upstream `alloc` crate. Thus remove a few leftover mentions treewide. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Also to 6.12.y after the `alloc` backport lands Fixes: 392e34b6bc22 ("kbuild: rust: remove the `alloc` crate and `GlobalAlloc`") Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303171030.1081134-1-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

docs: rust: quick-start: add Ubuntu

2024-10-07T08:49:15+00:00

Ubuntu has changed their maintenance model for Rust toolchains and is now providing recent Rust releases in their releases, including both LTS and non-LTS (interim) releases. Therefore, add instructions to the Quick Start guide for Ubuntu, like it is done for the other distributions. Link: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=rustc-1 Link: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bindgen-0 Cc: Zixing Liu Cc: William Grant Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925140600.275429-1-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

Merge tag 'rust-6.12' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux

2024-09-25T17:25:40+00:00

Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda: "Toolchain and infrastructure: - Support 'MITIGATION_{RETHUNK,RETPOLINE,SLS}' (which cleans up objtool warnings), teach objtool about 'noreturn' Rust symbols and mimic '___ADDRESSABLE()' for 'module_{init,exit}'. With that, we should be objtool-warning-free, so enable it to run for all Rust object files. - KASAN (no 'SW_TAGS'), KCFI and shadow call sanitizer support. - Support 'RUSTC_VERSION', including re-config and re-build on change. - Split helpers file into several files in a folder, to avoid conflicts in it. Eventually those files will be moved to the right places with the new build system. In addition, remove the need to manually export the symbols defined there, reusing existing machinery for that. - Relax restriction on configurations with Rust + GCC plugins to just the RANDSTRUCT plugin. 'kernel' crate: - New 'list' module: doubly-linked linked list for use with reference counted values, which is heavily used by the upcoming Rust Binder. This includes 'ListArc' (a wrapper around 'Arc' that is guaranteed unique for the given ID), 'AtomicTracker' (tracks whether a 'ListArc' exists using an atomic), 'ListLinks' (the prev/next pointers for an item in a linked list), 'List' (the linked list itself), 'Iter' (an iterator over a 'List'), 'Cursor' (a cursor into a 'List' that allows to remove elements), 'ListArcField' (a field exclusively owned by a 'ListArc'), as well as support for heterogeneous lists. - New 'rbtree' module: red-black tree abstractions used by the upcoming Rust Binder. This includes 'RBTree' (the red-black tree itself), 'RBTreeNode' (a node), 'RBTreeNodeReservation' (a memory reservation for a node), 'Iter' and 'IterMut' (immutable and mutable iterators), 'Cursor' (bidirectional cursor that allows to remove elements), as well as an entry API similar to the Rust standard library one. - 'init' module: add 'write_[pin_]init' methods and the 'InPlaceWrite' trait. Add the 'assert_pinned!' macro. - 'sync' module: implement the 'InPlaceInit' trait for 'Arc' by introducing an associated type in the trait. - 'alloc' module: add 'drop_contents' method to 'BoxExt'. - 'types' module: implement the 'ForeignOwnable' trait for 'Pin>' and improve the trait's documentation. In addition, add the 'into_raw' method to the 'ARef' type. - 'error' module: in preparation for the upcoming Rust support for 32-bit architectures, like arm, locally allow Clippy lint for those. Documentation: - https://rust.docs.kernel.org has been announced, so link to it. - Enable rustdoc's "jump to definition" feature, making its output a bit closer to the experience in a cross-referencer. - Debian Testing now also provides recent Rust releases (outside of the freeze period), so add it to the list. MAINTAINERS: - Trevor is joining as reviewer of the "RUST" entry. And a few other small bits" * tag 'rust-6.12' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (54 commits) kasan: rust: Add KASAN smoke test via UAF kbuild: rust: Enable KASAN support rust: kasan: Rust does not support KHWASAN kbuild: rust: Define probing macros for rustc kasan: simplify and clarify Makefile rust: cfi: add support for CFI_CLANG with Rust cfi: add CONFIG_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS rust: support for shadow call stack sanitizer docs: rust: include other expressions in conditional compilation section kbuild: rust: replace proc macros dependency on `core.o` with the version text kbuild: rust: rebuild if the version text changes kbuild: rust: re-run Kconfig if the version text changes kbuild: rust: add `CONFIG_RUSTC_VERSION` rust: avoid `box_uninit_write` feature MAINTAINERS: add Trevor Gross as Rust reviewer rust: rbtree: add `RBTree::entry` rust: rbtree: add cursor rust: rbtree: add mutable iterator rust: rbtree: add iterator rust: rbtree: add red-black tree implementation backed by the C version ...

docs: rust: remove unintended blockquote in Quick Start

2024-08-27T20:44:29+00:00

Remove indentation within the "Hacking" section of the Rust Quick Start guide, i.e. remove a `

` HTML element from the rendered documentation. Reported-by: Miguel Ojeda Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1103 Fixes: d07479b211b7 ("docs: add Rust documentation") Signed-off-by: Jon Mulder Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240826-pr-docs-rust-remove-quickstart-blockquote-v1-1-c51317d8d71a@gmail.com [ Added Fixes tag, reworded slightly and matched title to a previous, similar commit. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

docs: rust: quick-start: add Debian Testing

2024-08-24T17:44:24+00:00

Debian Testing is now also providing recent Rust releases (outside of the freeze period), like Debian Unstable (Sid). Thus add it to the list. Cc: Fabian Grünbichler Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributions

2024-07-10T08:29:55+00:00

Now that we are starting to support several Rust compiler and `bindgen` versions, there is a good chance some Linux distributions work out of the box. Thus, provide some instructions on how to set the toolchain up for a few major Linux distributions. This simplifies the setup users need to build the kernel. In addition, add an introduction to the document so that it is easier to understand its structure and move the LLVM+Rust kernel.org toolchains paragraph there (removing "depending on the Linux version"). We may want to reorganize the document or split it in the future, but I wanted to focus this commit on the new information added about each particular distribution. Finally, remove the `rustup`'s components mention in `changes.rst` since users do not need it if they install the toolchain via the distributions (and anyway it was too detailed for that main document). Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens Cc: Johannes Löthberg Cc: Fabian Grünbichler Cc: Josh Stone Cc: Randy Barlow Cc: Anna (navi) Figueiredo Gomes Cc: Matoro Mahri Cc: Ryan Scheel Cc: figsoda Cc: Jörg Thalheim Cc: Theodore Ni <43ngvg@masqt.com> Cc: Winter Cc: William Brown Cc: Xiaoguang Wang Cc: Andrea Righi Cc: Zixing Liu Cc: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Benno Lossin Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-14-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: start supporting several `bindgen` versions

2024-07-10T08:28:52+00:00

With both the workaround for `bindgen` 0.69.0 and the warning about 0.66.0 and 0.66.1 in place, start supporting several `bindgen` versions, like it was done for the Rust compiler in a previous patch. All other versions, including the latest 0.69.4, build without errors. The `bindgen` project, like Rust, has also agreed to have the kernel in their CI [1] -- thanks! This should help both projects: `bindgen` will be able to detect early issues like those mentioned above, and the kernel will be very likely build with new releases (at least for the basic configuration being tested). Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2851 [1] Tested-by: Benno Lossin Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-10-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: avoid assuming a particular `bindgen` build

2024-07-10T08:28:52+00:00

`bindgen`'s logic to find `libclang` (via `clang-sys`) may change over time, and depends on how it was built (e.g. Linux distributions may decide to build it differently, and we are going to provide documentation on installing it via distributions later in this series). Therefore, clarify that `bindgen` may be built in several ways and simplify the documentation by only mentioning the most prominent environment variable (`LIBCLANG_PATH`) as an example on how to tweak the search of the library at runtime (i.e. when `bindgen` is built as our documentation explains). This also avoids duplicating the documentation, like `bindgen` itself does (i.e. it refers to `clang-sys`). Similarly, replace the test we had for this (which used the real program) with a mocked one, to avoid depending on the particular build as well. Tested-by: Benno Lossin Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-8-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: start supporting several compiler versions

2024-07-10T08:28:52+00:00

It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus establish a minimum Rust version. We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since there may be important features coming into the language that improve how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make sense to support conditionally. We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0. This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series. In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes -- thanks to the Rust project for that! Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that, in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler versions should generally work. For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches work as well. Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust. Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1] Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens Tested-by: Benno Lossin Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda