From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Karl Mehltretter" <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 3/6] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv6K-only kernels
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 07:37:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261008053746.49631-4-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261008053746.49631-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
HAVE_RUST is selected for CPU_32v7 only. A combined ARMv6K and ARMv7
kernel has CPU_32v7 and can use Rust today. A kernel built for ARMv6K
alone cannot. There is no technical reason for that.
No CPU flags are passed to rustc on ARM. The arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
target has +v6 in its feature list, so Rust code is built as ARMv6 on
all of these kernels already.
Select HAVE_RUST for CPU_32v6K instead. CPU_V7 selects CPU_32v6K, so
ARMv7 stays covered.
Plain ARMv6 (CPU_V6, ARM1136r0) is excluded. It has no 1- and 2-byte
xchg() and no 2-byte cmpxchg(), which the Rust atomic helpers need. A
kernel that combines CPU_V6 with ARMv7 can enable Rust today and does
not link.
Tested in QEMU raspi0 (ARM1176) with bcm2835_defconfig without
ARCH_MULTI_V7. The Rust samples, all Rust KUnit suites and the
doctests pass with the current and with the minimum tool versions.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst | 2 +-
arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +-
rust/helpers/atomic_ext.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
index 4f980815e92a..bdc42a24bf30 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ support corresponds to ``S`` values in the ``MAINTAINERS`` file.
============= ================ ==============================================
Architecture Level of support Constraints
============= ================ ==============================================
-``arm`` Maintained ARMv7 Little Endian only.
+``arm`` Maintained ARMv6K and ARMv7, Little Endian only.
``arm64`` Maintained Little Endian only.
``loongarch`` Maintained \-
``riscv`` Maintained ``riscv64`` and LLVM/Clang only.
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index ffbc7f386131..b5816f28783a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config ARM
select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP && ARM_LPAE
select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
select HAVE_RSEQ
- select HAVE_RUST if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN && CPU_32v7 && !KASAN
+ select HAVE_RUST if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN && CPU_32v6K && !CPU_V6 && !KASAN
select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
select HAVE_UID16
diff --git a/rust/helpers/atomic_ext.c b/rust/helpers/atomic_ext.c
index c267d5190529..1d157df29229 100644
--- a/rust/helpers/atomic_ext.c
+++ b/rust/helpers/atomic_ext.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ GEN_READ_SET_HELPERS(ptr, const void *)
* xchg helpers depend on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW and on the
* architecture provding xchg() support for i8 and i16.
*
- * The architectures that currently support Rust (x86_64, armv7,
+ * The architectures that currently support Rust (x86_64, arm,
* arm64, riscv, and loongarch) satisfy these requirements.
*/
#define GEN_XCHG_HELPER(tname, type, suffix) \
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ GEN_XCHG_HELPERS(ptr, const void *)
* try_cmpxchg helpers depend on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW and on the
* architecture provding try_cmpxchg() support for i8 and i16.
*
- * The architectures that currently support Rust (x86_64, armv7,
+ * The architectures that currently support Rust (x86_64, arm,
* arm64, riscv, and loongarch) satisfy these requirements.
*/
#define GEN_TRY_CMPXCHG_HELPER(tname, type, suffix) \
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-08 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-08 5:37 [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv4T, ARMv5TE and ARMv6K Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-08 5:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] ARM: cmpxchg: always inline __arch_xchg() and __cmpxchg() Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-08 9:01 ` Gary Guo
2026-10-09 1:17 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-09 9:50 ` Gary Guo
2026-10-08 5:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] ARM: cmpxchg: support 2-byte xchg() on pre-ARMv6 CPUs Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-08 5:37 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-10-08 5:37 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv5TE Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-08 5:37 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv4T Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-08 9:08 ` Gary Guo
2026-10-09 1:21 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-08 5:37 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] ARM: rust: Build Rust code for ARMv7 on ARMv7 kernels Karl Mehltretter
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