[PATCH V11 0/4] Rust support for powerpc

Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)
2026-04-17T15:23:29Z

Enable experimental rust support for ppc64le and ppc32be. The patch for
ppc32 has been provided by Link Mauve[1] and ppc64le support[2] has been
merged over it. ppc32 needs some toolchain fixes mentioned in the patch
`rust: Add PowerPC support` and the discussion for that is done here[1].

This has been tested on
- powernv9 hardware
- pseries P11 hardware
- pseries(9, 10) qemu
- powernv(9, 10) qemu
- rustdoc on x86 and powerpc64le
- rusttest on x86 and powerpc64le

We are actively working with our LLVM team to get the target for ppc,
ppc64 and ppc64le in the rust compiler.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260204030507.8203-1-linkmauve@linkmauve.fr
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260204042417.83903-1-mkchauras@gmail.com

Changelog:
V10 -> V11:
- Updated `rust/Makefile`
- Not all libraries are move to `rust/host` directory now. Only
proc_macro2, quote and syn are moved
- Special handling for pin init is added. Details in commit
- Removed mkdir for `rust/host`, this is now handled by toolchain.
V10: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260406200149.3727922-1-mkchauras@gmail.com/

V9 -> V10:
- rust/Makefile updated with review comments from Miguel
- Patch 1/4 updated with commit message and subject
V9: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260404121610.1956528-1-mkchauras@gmail.com/

V8 -> V9:
- rust/Makefile updated with a directory instead of abspath
V8: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260403145308.1042622-1-mkchauras@gmail.com/

V7 -> V8:
- rust/Makefile updated to separate host libraries from target
V7: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260329160254.2592207-1-mkchauras@gmail.com/

Changelog:
V6 -> V7:
- Documentation removed as powerpc is still under development
- Added a fix for race condition in rust/Makefile
V6: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260210090023.2587534-1-mkchauras@gmail.com

V5 -> V6:
- Added a missing Tested by from Venkat which got missed since V3
- Support is marked as Maintained instead of experimental
V5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260210053756.2088302-1-mkchauras@gmail.com

V4 -> V5:
- Removed a nested ifdef from PPC64 for Little endian toolchain
V4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260209105456.1551677-1-mkchauras@gmail.com

V3 -> V4:
- Co-developed-by header added in patch 1
V3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260205180429.3280657-1-mkchauras@gmail.com

V2 -> V3:
- Splited HAVE_RUST in 2 lines
- BINDGEN_TARGET_powerpc initialized before assigning the same to
BINDGEN_TARGET
V2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260204210125.613350-1-mkchauras@gmail.com

V1 -> V2:
- jump label fix for rust has been moved to a separate patch
- PPC32 support has been taken
- rust support has been marked experimental
- target.json dependency has been removed
- HAVE_RUST now depends on CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN for PPC64

Link Mauve (1):
rust: Add PowerPC support

Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) (3):
rust: Fix "multiple candidates for rmeta dependency core" error
powerpc/jump_label: adjust inline asm to be consistent
powerpc: Enable Rust for ppc64le

arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/Makefile | 7 ++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h | 23 +++++++------
rust/Makefile | 48 +++++++++++++++++----------
4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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