Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: Add PowerPC support

From: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 20:42:58 +0100

Le 04/02/2026 à 18:33, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya a écrit :
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> 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://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fall%2F20260204042417.83903-1-mkchauras%40gmail.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy2%40cs-soprasteria.com%7C9033c0c08e1142c26cc408de6420675d%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C639058287509811601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LglEn8yJoYUcsXoENa8HO4SsOW4kKU397kDNVyfBilg%3D&reserved=0
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> Can i take this patch and put ppc64le support over it and send it out?

Could also one of you feed https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/451 ?

Thanks
Christophe

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