On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 05:40:42PM +0530, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya wrote:
> 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.
Here's bug on rustc for the same.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/160561

Regards,
Mukesh
> >   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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