[PATCH] rust: Add PowerPC support

Link Mauve
2026-02-04T03:05:28Z

For now only Big Endian 32-bit PowerPC is supported, as that is the only
hardware I have. This has been tested on the Nintendo Wii so far, but I
plan on also using it on the GameCube, Wii U and Apple G4.

These changes aren’t the only ones required to get the kernel to compile
and link on PowerPC, libcore will also have to be changed to not use
integer division to format u64, u128 and core::time::Duration, otherwise
__udivdi3() and __umoddi3() will have to be added. I have tested this
change by replacing the three implementations with unimplemented!() and
it linked just fine.

Signed-off-by: Link Mauve <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
---
Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst | 1 +
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/Makefile | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h | 16 ++++++++++------
rust/Makefile | 4 +++-
scripts/generate_rust_target.rs | 10 ++++++++++
6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
index 6e6a515d0899..70b9e192a7a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Architecture Level of support Constraints
``arm`` Maintained ARMv7 Little Endian only.
``arm64`` Maintained Little Endian only.
``loongarch`` Maintained \-
+``powerpc`` Maintained 32-bit Big Endian only.
``riscv`` Maintained ``riscv64`` and LLVM/Clang only.
``um`` Maintained \-
``x86`` Maintained ``x86_64`` only.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 9537a61ebae0..17db23b82e91 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ config PPC
select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
select HAVE_RSEQ
+ select HAVE_RUST if PPC32
select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
select HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA if PPC64
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index a58b1029592c..9fd82c75dcbd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ else
KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += $(objtree)/arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o
endif

+KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += --target=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
+
ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -mlittle-endian
KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -EL
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h
index d4eaba459a0e..238f0f625a36 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -15,14 +15,18 @@
#define JUMP_ENTRY_TYPE stringify_in_c(FTR_ENTRY_LONG)
#define JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE 4

+/* This macro is also expanded on the Rust side. */
+#define ARCH_STATIC_BRANCH_ASM(key, label) \
+ "1:\n\t" \
+ "nop # arch_static_branch\n\t" \
+ ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\"\n\t" \
+ ".long 1b - ., " label " - .\n\t" \
+ JUMP_ENTRY_TYPE key " - .\n\t" \
+ ".popsection \n\t"
+
static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key *key, bool branch)
{
- asm goto("1:\n\t"
- "nop # arch_static_branch\n\t"
- ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\"\n\t"
- ".long 1b - ., %l[l_yes] - .\n\t"
- JUMP_ENTRY_TYPE "%c0 - .\n\t"
- ".popsection \n\t"
+ asm goto(ARCH_STATIC_BRANCH_ASM("%c0", "%l[l_yes]")
: : "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);

return false;
diff --git a/rust/Makefile b/rust/Makefile
index 5c0155b83454..377e6fd68524 100644
--- a/rust/Makefile
+++ b/rust/Makefile
@@ -400,13 +400,15 @@ bindgen_skip_c_flags := -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=% \
-fno-inline-functions-called-once -fsanitize=bounds-strict \
-fstrict-flex-arrays=% -fmin-function-alignment=% \
-fzero-init-padding-bits=% -mno-fdpic \
- --param=% --param asan-% -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference
+ --param=% --param asan-% -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference \
+ -ffixed-r2 -mmultiple -mno-readonly-in-sdata

# Derived from `scripts/Makefile.clang`.
BINDGEN_TARGET_x86 := x86_64-linux-gnu
BINDGEN_TARGET_arm64 := aarch64-linux-gnu
BINDGEN_TARGET_arm := arm-linux-gnueabi
BINDGEN_TARGET_loongarch := loongarch64-linux-gnusf
+BINDGEN_TARGET_powerpc := powerpc-linux-gnu
BINDGEN_TARGET_um := $(BINDGEN_TARGET_$(SUBARCH))
BINDGEN_TARGET := $(BINDGEN_TARGET_$(SRCARCH))

diff --git a/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs b/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs
index 38b3416bb979..0054880ba0ea 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs
+++ b/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs
@@ -188,6 +188,16 @@ fn main() {
panic!("arm uses the builtin rustc target");
} else if cfg.has("ARM64") {
panic!("arm64 uses the builtin rustc aarch64-unknown-none target");
+ } else if cfg.has("PPC32") {
+ ts.push("arch", "powerpc");
+ ts.push("data-layout", "E-m:e-p:32:32-Fn32-i64:64-n32");
+ ts.push("features", "+soft-float");
+ ts.push("llvm-target", "powerpc-unknown-eabi");
+ if cfg.rustc_version_atleast(1, 91, 0) {
+ ts.push("target-pointer-width", 32);
+ } else {
+ ts.push("target-pointer-width", "32");
+ }
} else if cfg.has("RISCV") {
if cfg.has("64BIT") {
panic!("64-bit RISC-V uses the builtin rustc riscv64-unknown-none-elf target");
--
2.52.0