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Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1 commit fad7cd3310db ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in __nbd_ioctl()") raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in commit f0907827a8a9 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code") Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow, __signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW. This is problematic for 64b operands on 32b hosts. Also, because the macro is type agnostic, it is very difficult to write a similarly type generic macro that dispatches to one of: * div64_s64 * div64_u64 * div_s64 * div_u64 Raising the minimum supported versions allows us to remove all of the fallback helpers for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW, instead dispatching the compiler builtins. arm64 has already raised the minimum supported GCC version to 5.1, do this for all targets now. See the link below for the previous discussion. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438 Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-10 16:40:38 -07:00
kbuild: raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1 Patch series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1". This series bumps the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. The first patch does the bump and all subsequent patches clean up all the various workarounds and checks for earlier versions. Quoting the first patch's commit message for those that were only on CC for the clean ups: When __builtin_mul_overflow() has arguments that differ in terms of signedness and width, LLVM may generate a libcall to __muloti4 because it performs the checks in terms of 65-bit multiplication. This issue becomes harder to hit (but still possible) after LLVM 12.0.0, which includes a special case for matching widths but different signs. To gain access to this special case, which the kernel can take advantage of when calls to __muloti4 appear, bump the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. 13.0.1 was chosen because there is minimal impact to distribution support while allowing a few more workarounds to be dropped in the kernel source than if 12.0.0 were chosen. Looking at container images of up to date distribution versions: archlinux:latest clang version 16.0.6 debian:oldoldstable-slim clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final) debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2 debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6 debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) fedora:38 clang version 16.0.6 (Fedora 16.0.6-3.fc38) fedora:latest clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc39) fedora:rawhide clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc40) opensuse/leap:latest clang version 15.0.7 opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 17.0.6 ubuntu:focal clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1 ubuntu:latest Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 ubuntu:rolling Ubuntu clang version 16.0.6 (15) ubuntu:devel Ubuntu clang version 17.0.6 (3) The only distribution that gets left behind is Debian Bullseye, as the default version is 11.0.1; other distributions either have a newer version than 13.0.1 or one older than the current minimum of 11.0.0. Debian has easy access to more recent LLVM versions through apt.llvm.org, so this is not as much of a concern. There are also the kernel.org LLVM toolchains, which should work with distributions with glibc 2.28 and newer. Another benefit of slimming up the number of supported versions of LLVM for building the kernel is reducing the build capacity needed to support a matrix that builds with each supported version, which allows a matrix to reallocate the freed up build capacity towards something else, such as more configuration combinations. This passes my build matrix with all supported versions. This is based on Andrew's mm-nonmm-unstable to avoid trivial conflicts with my series to update the LLVM links across the repository [1] but I can easily rebase it to linux-kbuild if Masahiro would rather these patches go through there (and defer the conflict resolution to the merge window). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20240109-update-llvm-links-v1-0-eb09b59db071@kernel.org/ This patch (of 11): When __builtin_mul_overflow() has arguments that differ in terms of signedness and width, LLVM may generate a libcall to __muloti4 because it performs the checks in terms of 65-bit multiplication. This issue becomes harder to hit (but still possible) after LLVM 12.0.0, which includes a special case for matching widths but different signs. To gain access to this special case, which the kernel can take advantage of when calls to __muloti4 appear, bump the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. 13.0.1 was chosen because there is minimal impact to distribution support while allowing a few more workarounds to be dropped in the kernel source than if 12.0.0 were chosen. Looking at container images of up to date distribution versions: archlinux:latest clang version 16.0.6 debian:oldoldstable-slim clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final) debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2 debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6 debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19) fedora:38 clang version 16.0.6 (Fedora 16.0.6-3.fc38) fedora:latest clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc39) fedora:rawhide clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc40) opensuse/leap:latest clang version 15.0.7 opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 17.0.6 ubuntu:focal clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1 ubuntu:latest Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 ubuntu:rolling Ubuntu clang version 16.0.6 (15) ubuntu:devel Ubuntu clang version 17.0.6 (3) The only distribution that gets left behind is Debian Bullseye, as the default version is 11.0.1; other distributions either have a newer version than 13.0.1 or one older than the current minimum of 11.0.0. Debian has easy access to more recent LLVM versions through apt.llvm.org, so this is not as much of a concern. There are also the kernel.org LLVM toolchains, which should work with distributions with glibc 2.28 and newer. Another benefit of slimming up the number of supported versions of LLVM for building the kernel is reducing the build capacity needed to support a matrix that builds with each supported version, which allows a matrix to reallocate the freed up build capacity towards something else, such as more configuration combinations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-0-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1975 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/38013 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/3203143f1356a4e4e3ada231156fc6da6e1a9f9d Link: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-1-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-01-25 15:55:07 -07:00
rust: upgrade to Rust 1.78.0 This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.77.1 to 1.78.0 (i.e. the latest) [1]. See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in commit 3ed03f4da06e ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2"). It is much smaller than previous upgrades, since the `alloc` fork was dropped in commit 9d0441bab775 ("rust: alloc: remove our fork of the `alloc` crate") [3]. # Unstable features There have been no changes to the set of unstable features used in our own code. Therefore, the only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate is still `new_uninit`. However, since we finally dropped our `alloc` fork [3], all the unstable features used by `alloc` (~30 language ones, ~60 library ones) are not a concern anymore. This reduces the maintenance burden, increases the chances of new compiler versions working without changes and gets us closer to the goal of supporting several compiler versions. It also means that, ignoring non-language/library features, we are currently left with just the few language features needed to implement the kernel `Arc`, the `new_uninit` library feature, the `compiler_builtins` marker and the few `no_*` `cfg`s we pass when compiling `core`/`alloc`. Please see [4] for details. # Required changes ## LLVM's data layout Rust 1.77.0 (i.e. the previous upgrade) introduced a check for matching LLVM data layouts [5]. Then, Rust 1.78.0 upgraded LLVM's bundled major version from 17 to 18 [6], which changed the data layout in x86 [7]. Thus update the data layout in our custom target specification for x86 so that the compiler does not complain about the mismatch: error: data-layout for target `target-5559158138856098584`, `e-m:e-p270:32:32-p271:32:32-p272:64:64-i64:64-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128`, differs from LLVM target's `x86_64-linux-gnu` default layout, `e-m:e-p270:32:32-p271:32:32-p272:64:64-i64:64-i128:128-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128` In the future, the goal is to drop the custom target specifications. Meanwhile, if we want to support other LLVM versions used in `rustc` (e.g. for LTO), we will need to add some extra logic (e.g. conditional on LLVM's version, or extracting the data layout from an existing built-in target specification). ## `unused_imports` Rust's `unused_imports` lint covers both unused and redundant imports. Now, in 1.78.0, the lint detects more cases of redundant imports [8]. Thus one of the previous patches cleaned them up. ## Clippy's `new_without_default` Clippy now suggests to implement `Default` even when `new()` is `const`, since `Default::default()` may call `const` functions even if it is not `const` itself [9]. Thus one of the previous patches implemented it. # Other changes in Rust Rust 1.78.0 introduced `feature(asm_goto)` [10] [11]. This feature was discussed in the past [12]. Rust 1.78.0 introduced `feature(const_refs_to_static)` [13] to allow referencing statics in constants and extended `feature(const_mut_refs)` to allow raw mutable pointers in constants. Together, this should cover the kernel's `VTABLE` use case. In fact, the implementation [14] in upstream Rust added a test case for it [15]. Rust 1.78.0 with debug assertions enabled (i.e. `-Cdebug-assertions=y`, kernel's `CONFIG_RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS=y`) now always checks all unsafe preconditions, though without a way to opt-out for particular cases [16]. It would be ideal to have a way to selectively disable certain checks per-call site for this one (i.e. not just per check but for particular instances of a check), even if the vast majority of the checks remain in place [17]. Rust 1.78.0 also improved a couple issues we reported when giving feedback for the new `--check-cfg` feature [18] [19]. # `alloc` upgrade and reviewing As mentioned above, compiler upgrades will not update `alloc` anymore, since we dropped our `alloc` fork [3]. Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1780-2024-05-02 [1] Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20240328013603.206764-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/ [3] Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [4] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120062 [5] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120055 [6] Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86310 [7] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117772 [8] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/10903 [9] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119365 [10] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/119364 [11] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/ZWipTZysC2YL7qsq@Boquns-Mac-mini.home/ [12] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/119618 [13] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120932 [14] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120932/files#diff-e6fc1622c46054cd46b1d225c5386c5554564b3b0fa8a03c2dc2d8627a1079d9 [15] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120969 [16] Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/354 [17] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121202 [18] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121237 [19] Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401212303.537355-4-ojeda@kernel.org [ Added a few more details and links I mentioned in the list. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2024-04-01 23:23:03 +02:00
rust: bindgen: upgrade to 0.65.1 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>
2023-06-13 01:13:11 +05:30
kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-10 01:02:29 +09:00
kbuild: generate offset range data for builtin modules Create file module.builtin.ranges that can be used to find where built-in modules are located by their addresses. This will be useful for tracing tools to find what functions are for various built-in modules. The offset range data for builtin modules is generated using: - modules.builtin: associates object files with module names - vmlinux.map: provides load order of sections and offset of first member per section - vmlinux.o.map: provides offset of object file content per section - .*.cmd: build cmd file with KBUILD_MODFILE The generated data will look like: .text 00000000-00000000 = _text .text 0000baf0-0000cb10 amd_uncore .text 0009bd10-0009c8e0 iosf_mbi ... .text 00b9f080-00ba011a intel_skl_int3472_discrete .text 00ba0120-00ba03c0 intel_skl_int3472_discrete intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 .text 00ba03c0-00ba08d6 intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 ... .data 00000000-00000000 = _sdata .data 0000f020-0000f680 amd_uncore For each ELF section, it lists the offset of the first symbol. This can be used to determine the base address of the section at runtime. Next, it lists (in strict ascending order) offset ranges in that section that cover the symbols of one or more builtin modules. Multiple ranges can apply to a single module, and ranges can be shared between modules. The CONFIG_BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES option controls whether offset range data is generated for kernel modules that are built into the kernel image. How it works: 1. The modules.builtin file is parsed to obtain a list of built-in module names and their associated object names (the .ko file that the module would be in if it were a loadable module, hereafter referred to as <kmodfile>). This object name can be used to identify objects in the kernel compile because any C or assembler code that ends up into a built-in module will have the option -DKBUILD_MODFILE=<kmodfile> present in its build command, and those can be found in the .<obj>.cmd file in the kernel build tree. If an object is part of multiple modules, they will all be listed in the KBUILD_MODFILE option argument. This allows us to conclusively determine whether an object in the kernel build belong to any modules, and which. 2. The vmlinux.map is parsed next to determine the base address of each top level section so that all addresses into the section can be turned into offsets. This makes it possible to handle sections getting loaded at different addresses at system boot. We also determine an 'anchor' symbol at the beginning of each section to make it possible to calculate the true base address of a section at runtime (i.e. symbol address - symbol offset). We collect start addresses of sections that are included in the top level section. This is used when vmlinux is linked using vmlinux.o, because in that case, we need to look at the vmlinux.o linker map to know what object a symbol is found in. And finally, we process each symbol that is listed in vmlinux.map (or vmlinux.o.map) based on the following structure: vmlinux linked from vmlinux.a: vmlinux.map: <top level section> <included section> -- might be same as top level section) <object> -- built-in association known <symbol> -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... vmlinux linked from vmlinux.o: vmlinux.map: <top level section> <included section> -- might be same as top level section) vmlinux.o -- need to use vmlinux.o.map <symbol> -- ignored ... vmlinux.o.map: <section> <object> -- built-in association known <symbol> -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... 3. As sections, objects, and symbols are processed, offset ranges are constructed in a straight-forward way: - If the symbol belongs to one or more built-in modules: - If we were working on the same module(s), extend the range to include this object - If we were working on another module(s), close that range, and start the new one - If the symbol does not belong to any built-in modules: - If we were working on a module(s) range, close that range Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2024-09-06 10:45:03 -04:00
docs: add Rust documentation 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>
2021-07-03 17:23:16 +02:00
rust: start supporting several compiler versions 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>
2024-07-09 18:06:01 +02:00
docs: add Rust documentation 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>
2021-07-03 17:23:16 +02:00
kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-10 01:02:29 +09:00
kbuild: generate offset range data for builtin modules Create file module.builtin.ranges that can be used to find where built-in modules are located by their addresses. This will be useful for tracing tools to find what functions are for various built-in modules. The offset range data for builtin modules is generated using: - modules.builtin: associates object files with module names - vmlinux.map: provides load order of sections and offset of first member per section - vmlinux.o.map: provides offset of object file content per section - .*.cmd: build cmd file with KBUILD_MODFILE The generated data will look like: .text 00000000-00000000 = _text .text 0000baf0-0000cb10 amd_uncore .text 0009bd10-0009c8e0 iosf_mbi ... .text 00b9f080-00ba011a intel_skl_int3472_discrete .text 00ba0120-00ba03c0 intel_skl_int3472_discrete intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 .text 00ba03c0-00ba08d6 intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 ... .data 00000000-00000000 = _sdata .data 0000f020-0000f680 amd_uncore For each ELF section, it lists the offset of the first symbol. This can be used to determine the base address of the section at runtime. Next, it lists (in strict ascending order) offset ranges in that section that cover the symbols of one or more builtin modules. Multiple ranges can apply to a single module, and ranges can be shared between modules. The CONFIG_BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES option controls whether offset range data is generated for kernel modules that are built into the kernel image. How it works: 1. The modules.builtin file is parsed to obtain a list of built-in module names and their associated object names (the .ko file that the module would be in if it were a loadable module, hereafter referred to as <kmodfile>). This object name can be used to identify objects in the kernel compile because any C or assembler code that ends up into a built-in module will have the option -DKBUILD_MODFILE=<kmodfile> present in its build command, and those can be found in the .<obj>.cmd file in the kernel build tree. If an object is part of multiple modules, they will all be listed in the KBUILD_MODFILE option argument. This allows us to conclusively determine whether an object in the kernel build belong to any modules, and which. 2. The vmlinux.map is parsed next to determine the base address of each top level section so that all addresses into the section can be turned into offsets. This makes it possible to handle sections getting loaded at different addresses at system boot. We also determine an 'anchor' symbol at the beginning of each section to make it possible to calculate the true base address of a section at runtime (i.e. symbol address - symbol offset). We collect start addresses of sections that are included in the top level section. This is used when vmlinux is linked using vmlinux.o, because in that case, we need to look at the vmlinux.o linker map to know what object a symbol is found in. And finally, we process each symbol that is listed in vmlinux.map (or vmlinux.o.map) based on the following structure: vmlinux linked from vmlinux.a: vmlinux.map: <top level section> <included section> -- might be same as top level section) <object> -- built-in association known <symbol> -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... vmlinux linked from vmlinux.o: vmlinux.map: <top level section> <included section> -- might be same as top level section) vmlinux.o -- need to use vmlinux.o.map <symbol> -- ignored ... vmlinux.o.map: <section> <object> -- built-in association known <symbol> -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... 3. As sections, objects, and symbols are processed, offset ranges are constructed in a straight-forward way: - If the symbol belongs to one or more built-in modules: - If we were working on the same module(s), extend the range to include this object - If we were working on another module(s), close that range, and start the new one - If the symbol does not belong to any built-in modules: - If we were working on a module(s) range, close that range Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2024-09-06 10:45:03 -04:00
docs: add Rust documentation 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>
2021-07-03 17:23:16 +02:00
docs: add Rust documentation 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>
2021-07-03 17:23:16 +02:00
kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-10 01:02:29 +09:00