Subject: [PATCH V2 3/3] powerpc: Enable Rust for ppc64le

From: "Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:31:25 +0530

Enabling rust support for ppc64le only.

Tested on powernv9:

$ uname -rm
6.19.0-rc8+ ppc64le

$ sudo modprobe rust_minimal
[  632.890850] rust_minimal: Rust minimal sample (init)
[  632.890881] rust_minimal: Am I built-in? false
[  632.890898] rust_minimal: test_parameter: 1

$ sudo rmmod rust_minimal
[  648.272832] rust_minimal: My numbers are [72, 108, 200]
[  648.272873] rust_minimal: Rust minimal sample (exit)

$ sudo modprobe rust_print
[  843.410391] rust_print: Rust printing macros sample (init)
[  843.410424] rust_print: Emergency message (level 0) without args
[  843.410451] rust_print: Alert message (level 1) without args
[  843.410477] rust_print: Critical message (level 2) without args
[  843.410503] rust_print: Error message (level 3) without args
[  843.410530] rust_print: Warning message (level 4) without args
[  843.410557] rust_print: Notice message (level 5) without args
[  843.410594] rust_print: Info message (level 6) without args
[  843.410617] rust_print: A line that is continued without args
[  843.410646] rust_print: Emergency message (level 0) with args
[  843.410675] rust_print: Alert message (level 1) with args
[  843.410691] rust_print: Critical message (level 2) with args
[  843.410727] rust_print: Error message (level 3) with args
[  843.410761] rust_print: Warning message (level 4) with args
[  843.410796] rust_print: Notice message (level 5) with args
[  843.410821] rust_print: Info message (level 6) with args
[  843.410854] rust_print: A line that is continued with args
[  843.410892] rust_print: 1
[  843.410895] rust_print: "hello, world"
[  843.410924] rust_print: [samples/rust/rust_print_main.rs:35:5] c = "hello, world"
[  843.410977] rust_print: Arc<dyn Display> says 42
[  843.410979] rust_print: Arc<dyn Display> says hello, world

$ sudo rmmod rust_print
[  843.411003] rust_print: "hello, world"
[  888.499935] rust_print: Rust printing macros sample (exit)

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Makefile               | 9 ++++++++-
 rust/Makefile                       | 9 ++++++++-
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
index e26a94808e97..627471ac9238 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Architecture   Level of support  Constraints
 ``arm``        Maintained        ARMv7 Little Endian only.
 ``arm64``      Maintained        Little Endian only.
 ``loongarch``  Maintained        \-
-``powerpc``    Experimental      32-bit Big Endian only.
+``powerpc``    Experimental      64-bit Little Endian. 32-bit Big Endian.
 ``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 17db23b82e91..c5dd03713af2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -283,7 +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_RUST			if PPC32 || (PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
 	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 9fd82c75dcbd..f93816ddc036 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -61,7 +61,14 @@ else
 KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += $(objtree)/arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o
 endif
 
-KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += --target=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
+ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS	+= --target=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
+endif
+KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS	+= -Ctarget-feature=-mma,-vsx,-hard-float,-altivec
+else
+KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS	+= --target=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
+endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -mlittle-endian
diff --git a/rust/Makefile b/rust/Makefile
index ae22f2c5f0b3..c3961fd0d9a4 100644
--- a/rust/Makefile
+++ b/rust/Makefile
@@ -392,10 +392,17 @@ 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))
 
+ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+BINDGEN_TARGET_powerpc	:= powerpc64le-linux-gnu
+endif
+else
+BINDGEN_TARGET_powerpc	:= powerpc-linux-gnu
+endif
+
 # All warnings are inhibited since GCC builds are very experimental,
 # many GCC warnings are not supported by Clang, they may only appear in
 # some configurations, with new GCC versions, etc.
-- 
2.52.0