Re: [PATCH] rust: Add PowerPC support

Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-04T19:43:07Z

Le 04/02/2026 à 18:33, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya a écrit :
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> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 04:05:04AM +0100, Link Mauve wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Hey Link,
> I sent a patch with ppc64le support.
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fall%2F20260204042417.83903-1-mkchauras%40gmail.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy2%40cs-soprasteria.com%7C9033c0c08e1142c26cc408de6420675d%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C639058287509811601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LglEn8yJoYUcsXoENa8HO4SsOW4kKU397kDNVyfBilg%3D&reserved=0
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> Can i take this patch and put ppc64le support over it and send it out?

Could also one of you feed https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/451 ?

Thanks
Christophe

>
> Regards,
> Mukesh
>> 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
>>
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