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* [PATCH] rust: enable bindgen's `--enable-function-attribute-detection` flag
@ 2024-08-14 16:37 Miguel Ojeda
  2024-08-15  7:56 ` Alice Ryhl
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Miguel Ojeda @ 2024-08-14 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Miguel Ojeda, Alex Gaynor, Wedson Almeida Filho
  Cc: Boqun Feng, Gary Guo, Björn Roy Baron, Benno Lossin,
	Andreas Hindborg, Alice Ryhl, rust-for-linux, linux-kernel,
	patches

`bindgen` is able to detect certain function attributes and annotate
functions correspondingly in its output for the Rust side, when the
`--enable-function-attribute-detection` is passed.

In particular, it is currently able to use `__must_check` in C
(`#[must_use]` in Rust), which give us a bunch of annotations that are
nice to have to prevent possible issues in Rust abstractions, e.g.:

     extern "C" {
    +    #[must_use]
         pub fn kobject_add(
             kobj: *mut kobject,
             parent: *mut kobject,
             fmt: *const core::ffi::c_char,
             ...
         ) -> core::ffi::c_int;
     }

Apparently, there are edge cases where this can make generation very slow,
which is why it is behind a flag [1], but it does not seem to affect us
in any major way at the moment.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/1465 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72=u5Nrz_NW3U3_VqywJkD8pECA07q2pFDd1wjtXOWdkAQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
---
If someone notices a major performance difference, please let me know!

 rust/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rust/Makefile b/rust/Makefile
index 1f10f92737f2..c28b81e2a5fa 100644
--- a/rust/Makefile
+++ b/rust/Makefile
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ quiet_cmd_bindgen = BINDGEN $@
       cmd_bindgen = \
 	$(BINDGEN) $< $(bindgen_target_flags) \
 		--use-core --with-derive-default --ctypes-prefix core::ffi --no-layout-tests \
-		--no-debug '.*' \
+		--no-debug '.*' --enable-function-attribute-detection \
 		-o $@ -- $(bindgen_c_flags_final) -DMODULE \
 		$(bindgen_target_cflags) $(bindgen_target_extra)


base-commit: de9c2c66ad8e787abec7c9d7eff4f8c3cdd28aed
--
2.46.0

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