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2024-08-27docs: rust: remove unintended blockquote in Quick StartJon Mulder1-3/+3
Remove indentation within the "Hacking" section of the Rust Quick Start guide, i.e. remove a `<blockquote>` HTML element from the rendered documentation. Reported-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1103 Fixes: d07479b211b7 ("docs: add Rust documentation") Signed-off-by: Jon Mulder <jon.e.mulder@gmail.com> 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 <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-07-10docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributionsMiguel Ojeda1-12/+81
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 <heftig@archlinux.org> Cc: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com> Cc: Fabian Grünbichler <debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email> Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> Cc: Anna (navi) Figueiredo Gomes <navi@vlhl.dev> Cc: Matoro Mahri <matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk> Cc: Ryan Scheel <ryan.havvy@gmail.com> Cc: figsoda <figsoda@pm.me> Cc: Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io> Cc: Theodore Ni <43ngvg@masqt.com> Cc: Winter <nixos@winter.cafe> Cc: William Brown <wbrown@suse.de> Cc: Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@suse.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Cc: Zixing Liu <zixing.liu@canonical.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-14-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-07-10rust: start supporting several `bindgen` versionsMiguel Ojeda1-3/+4
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 <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-10-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-07-10rust: avoid assuming a particular `bindgen` buildMiguel Ojeda1-14/+9
`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 <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-8-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-07-10rust: start supporting several compiler versionsMiguel Ojeda1-8/+7
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 <me@kloenk.dev> Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-07-08kbuild: rust: remove now-unneeded `rusttest` custom sysroot handlingMiguel Ojeda1-14/+0
Since we dropped our custom `alloc` in commit 9d0441bab775 ("rust: alloc: remove our fork of the `alloc` crate"), there is no need anymore to keep the custom sysroot hack. Thus delete it, which makes the target way simpler and faster too. This also means we are not using Cargo for anything at the moment, and that no download is required anymore, so update the main `Makefile` and the documentation accordingly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528163502.411600-1-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-07-08docs: rust: introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchainsNathan Chancellor1-0/+7
These combined LLVM+Rust toolchains are now available, thanks to Nathan Chancellor (ClangBuiltLinux). Thus introduce them in the Rust Quick Start guide. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240517170615.377786-1-ojeda@kernel.org Co-developed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-12-21docs: rust: Clarify that 'rustup override' applies to build directoryViresh Kumar1-4/+8
'rustup override' is required to be set for the build directory and not necessarily the kernel source tree (unless the build directory is its subdir). Clarify the same in the Quick Start guide. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Originally-pointed-out-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/commit/f2238e7 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e2b943eca92abebbf035447b3569f09a7176c770.1702366951.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org [ Reworded and fixed quotes for `--path` and `set`. ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-12-21docs: rust: remove `CC=clang` mentionsMiguel Ojeda1-5/+1
Nowadays all architectures except s390 recommend using `LLVM=1` instead of `CC=clang`, and since commit a3c6bfba4429 ("Documentation/llvm: refresh docs") the Kbuild LLVM documentation makes `LLVM=1` the way to go: We want to encourage the use of ``LLVM=1`` rather than just ``CC=clang``. Make that suggestion "above the fold" and "front and center" in our docs. In particular, that commit removes the examples with `CC=clang`. Thus do the same in the Rust Quick Start guide, i.e. remove the `CC=clang` mentions, especially since the architectures that have had their Rust support upstreamed (or soon to be upstreamed) are all `LLVM=1` ones. And perhaps by the time Rust is supported for s390 (or new architectures), it may have moved to `LLVM=1` anyway. Otherwise, this can be added back if needed (or perhaps an extra link to Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst). This should also help avoiding potential confusion around `CC=clang` [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/6df6e8e5-8d5b-4d3d-91b5-bc0e90c424ea@nvidia.com/ [1] Reviewed-by: Ariel Miculas <amiculas@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215124751.175191-1-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-08-21docs: rust: clarify what 'rustup override' doesTrevor Gross1-1/+3
The behavior of 'rustup override' is not very well known. Add a small note about what it does, so users have a better understanding of how it affects their system toolchain (i.e., it does not affect system toolchain and only sets a directory-specific override). Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803060437.12157-3-tmgross@umich.edu [ Undid the `:` to `::` change. ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-08-20docs: rust: update instructions for obtaining 'core' sourceTrevor Gross1-7/+8
The source for Rust's 'core' library is needed to build the kernel with Rust support. This sometimes needs to be obtained by hand when using a standalone version of 'rustc' not managed by 'rustup'. Currently, the documentation suggests cloning the 'rust' repository to obtain these sources, but this is quite slow (on the order of a multiple minutes). Change this documentation to suggest using the source tarball instead. The tarball includes only needed files (<5M) and is significantly faster to download; this is more in line with what 'rustup' does. Also simplify wording of the relevant section. Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/1024 Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803060437.12157-2-tmgross@umich.edu Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-08-20docs: rust: add command line to rust-analyzer sectionGuillaume Plourde1-1/+3
Add command line to rust-analyzer section for convenience purposes. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Plourde <gplourde@protonmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/y4jBalhfESeCZDShmVaGwrdlIRoIHroqNVUUYLck6qGNwB5e7wbIJO5DoiLBTPpTNYtdneWRODjhXwlIl9VzokqxffdNU7y__1wIa7BBl94=@protonmail.com [ Fixed indentation to tab and reworded title. ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-08-15rust: bindgen: upgrade to 0.65.1Aakash Sen Sharma1-1/+1
In LLVM 16, anonymous items may return names like `(unnamed union at ..)` rather than empty names [1], which breaks Rust-enabled builds because bindgen assumed an empty name instead of detecting them via `clang_Cursor_isAnonymous` [2]: $ make rustdoc LLVM=1 CLIPPY=1 -j$(nproc) RUSTC L rust/core.o BINDGEN rust/bindings/bindings_generated.rs BINDGEN rust/bindings/bindings_helpers_generated.rs BINDGEN rust/uapi/uapi_generated.rs thread 'main' panicked at '"ftrace_branch_data_union_(anonymous_at__/_/include/linux/compiler_types_h_146_2)" is not a valid Ident', .../proc-macro2-1.0.24/src/fallback.rs:693:9 ... thread 'main' panicked at '"ftrace_branch_data_union_(anonymous_at__/_/include/linux/compiler_types_h_146_2)" is not a valid Ident', .../proc-macro2-1.0.24/src/fallback.rs:693:9 ... This was fixed in bindgen 0.62.0. Therefore, upgrade bindgen to a more recent version, 0.65.1, to support LLVM 16. Since bindgen 0.58.0 changed the `--{white,black}list-*` flags to `--{allow,block}list-*` [3], update them on our side too. In addition, bindgen 0.61.0 moved its CLI utility into a binary crate called `bindgen-cli` [4]. Thus update the installation command in the Quick Start guide. Moreover, bindgen 0.61.0 changed the default functionality to bind `size_t` to `usize` [5] and added the `--no-size_t-is-usize` flag to not bind `size_t` as `usize`. Then bindgen 0.65.0 removed the `--size_t-is-usize` flag [6]. Thus stop passing the flag to bindgen. Finally, bindgen 0.61.0 added support for the `noreturn` attribute (in its different forms) [7]. Thus remove the infinite loop in our Rust panic handler after calling `BUG()`, since bindgen now correctly generates a `BUG()` binding that returns `!` instead of `()`. Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/19e984ef8f49bc3ccced15621989fa9703b2cd5b [1] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2319 [2] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/1990 [3] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2284 [4] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/commit/cc78b6fdb6e829e5fb8fa1639f2182cb49333569 [5] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2408 [6] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2094 [7] Signed-off-by: Aakash Sen Sharma <aakashsensharma@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1013 Tested-by: Ariel Miculas <amiculas@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230612194311.24826-1-aakashsensharma@gmail.com [ Reworded commit message. Mentioned the `bindgen-cli` binary crate change, linked to it and updated the Quick Start guide. Re-added a deleted "as" word in a code comment and reflowed comment to respect the maximum length. ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-08-09docs: rust: add paragraph about finding a suitable `libclang`Miguel Ojeda1-0/+17
Sometimes users need to tweak the finding process of `libclang` for `bindgen` via the `clang-sys`-provided environment variables. Thus add a paragraph to the setting up guide, including a reference to `clang-sys`'s relevant documentation. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAKwvOdm5JT4wbdQQYuW+RT07rCi6whGBM2iUAyg8A1CmLXG6Nw@mail.gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230616001631.463536-4-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2023-05-31docs: rust: point directly to the standalone installersMiguel Ojeda1-2/+2
The Quick Start guide points to the Rust programming language front page when it mentions the possibility of using the standalone installers instead of `rustup`. This was done to have a hopefully stable link, but it is not too helpful: readers need to figure out how to reach the standalone installers from there. Thus point directly to the page (and anchor) with the table that contains the standalone installers (plus signing key etc.). If the link breaks in the future, we can always update it as needed. And anyway having the full link includes the domain and gives more information about where the old docs were in such a broken link case, which may help. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CANiq72=gpzQyh1ExGbBWWNdgH-mTATdG5F600jKD1=NLLCn7wg@mail.gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230306220959.240235-1-ojeda@kernel.org [ Removed "install ``rustup``" ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2022-09-28docs: add Rust documentationMiguel Ojeda1-0/+232
Most of the documentation for Rust is written within the source code itself, as it is idiomatic for Rust projects. This applies to both the shared infrastructure at `rust/` as well as any other Rust module (e.g. drivers) written across the kernel. However, these documents contain general information that does not fit particularly well in the source code, like the Quick Start guide. It also contains a few other small changes elsewhere in the documentation folder. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de> Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de> Co-developed-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com> Co-developed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Co-developed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn> Co-developed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Co-developed-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@web.de> Signed-off-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@web.de> Co-developed-by: Yuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org> Signed-off-by: Yuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org> Co-developed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Co-developed-by: Julian Merkle <me@jvmerkle.de> Signed-off-by: Julian Merkle <me@jvmerkle.de> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>