On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 01:22:17PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Link Mauve wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 12:27:13PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> > > On Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:54:47 +0530, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Applied to powerpc/next.
> > > 
> > > [1/7] rust: Fix "multiple candidates for rmeta dependency core" error
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/00cdfd072c709c608606461d7d44d4613119bfa9
> > > [2/7] dma-resv: Fix undefined symbol when CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER is 
> > > disabled
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/be809b60cbb61aab96179f44ac3670242ae72996
> > > [3/7] powerpc/jump_label: adjust inline asm to be consistent
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/13244c0a40139fe66c4c5c5655f4d732a6002957
> > > [4/7] rust/powerpc: Set min rustc version for powerpc
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e299147cdc8e19c6421a6b7863dc82a35b09d967
> > > [5/7] rust: Make __udivdi3() and __umoddi3() panic
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/c93c194e4ee71a734986fd99a8b1ec9fbb7a9b8b
> > > [6/7] rust: Add PowerPC support
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/73b741adb264967093ef4eb59905618a7e0d0de0
> > > [7/7] powerpc: Enable Rust for ppc64le
> > >       
> > > https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bc87cbdb952e9223616b839d64bdb4723aa2ed1d
> > > 
> > > cheers
> > > 
> > 
> > I just tested those again in linux-next, with the Wii support series on
> > top, but now the kernel fails to build due to ARCH_WARN_ASM and
> > ARCH_WARN_REACHABLE not being defined on PowerPC:
> 
> I also see the following warnings (in addition to that error):
> 
>   warning: unknown and unstable feature specified for `-Ctarget-feature`: 
> `mma`
>     |
>     = note: it is still passed through to the codegen backend, but use of 
> this feature might be unsound and the behavior of this feature can change in 
> the future
>     = help: consider filing a feature request
> 
>   warning: unstable feature specified for `-Ctarget-feature`: `vsx`
>     |
>     = note: this feature is not stably supported; its behavior can change in 
> the future
> 
>   warning: unknown and unstable feature specified for `-Ctarget-feature`: 
> `hard-float`
>     |
>     = note: it is still passed through to the codegen backend, but use of 
> this feature might be unsound and the behavior of this feature can change in 
> the future
>     = help: consider filing a feature request
> 
>   warning: unstable feature specified for `-Ctarget-feature`: `altivec`
>     |
>     = note: this feature is not stably supported; its behavior can change in 
> the future
> 
Hey Nathan,

For these i'll raise issues.
>   clang diag: arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctl.h:5:9: warning: 
> '_IOC_SIZEBITS' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
>   clang diag: arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctl.h:6:9: warning: 
> '_IOC_DIRBITS' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
>   clang diag: arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctl.h:8:9: warning: '_IOC_NONE' 
> macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
>   clang diag: arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctl.h:10:9: warning: 
> '_IOC_WRITE' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
>   warning: 4 warnings emitted
> 
For these warnings below diff should fix it. I'll send out a patch soon.

diff --git a/rust/uapi/uapi_helper.h b/rust/uapi/uapi_helper.h
index 06d7d1a2e8da..acec2d2fede7 100644
--- a/rust/uapi/uapi_helper.h
+++ b/rust/uapi/uapi_helper.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Sorted alphabetically.
  */
 
-#include <uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/ioctl.h>
 #include <uapi/drm/drm.h>
 #include <uapi/drm/nova_drm.h>
 #include <uapi/drm/panthor_drm.h>

Regards,
Mukesh

> when building this series in next-20260804 with rustc 1.97.1. I am not
> sure where the clang diagnostic warnings come from. I assume the target
> feature warnings are expected but it would be good to get those
> addressed sooner rather than later. I see '-hard-float' has an issue
> open
> 
>   https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/117347
> 
> but I don't think I see issues open for the other ones.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Nathan

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