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://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Can i take this patch and put ppc64le support over it and send it out?

Regards,
Mukesh
> Signed-off-by: Link Mauve <[email protected]>
> ---
>  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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