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This is the first upgrade to the Rust toolchain since the initial Rust
merge, from 1.62.0 to 1.68.2 (i.e. the latest).

# Context

The kernel currently supports only a single Rust version [1] (rather
than a minimum) given our usage of some "unstable" Rust features [2]
which do not promise backwards compatibility.

The goal is to reach a point where we can declare a minimum version for
the toolchain. For instance, by waiting for some of the features to be
stabilized. Therefore, the first minimum Rust version that the kernel
will support is "in the future".

# Upgrade policy

Given we will eventually need to reach that minimum version, it would be
ideal to upgrade the compiler from time to time to be as close as
possible to that goal and find any issues sooner. In the extreme, we
could upgrade as soon as a new Rust release is out. Of course, upgrading
so often is in stark contrast to what one normally would need for GCC
and LLVM, especially given the release schedule: 6 weeks for Rust vs.
half a year for LLVM and a year for GCC.

Having said that, there is no particular advantage to updating slowly
either: kernel developers in "stable" distributions are unlikely to be
able to use their distribution-provided Rust toolchain for the kernel
anyway [3]. Instead, by routinely upgrading to the latest instead,
kernel developers using Linux distributions that track the latest Rust
release may be able to use those rather than Rust-provided ones,
especially if their package manager allows to pin / hold back /
downgrade the version for some days during windows where the version may
not match. For instance, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo and openSUSE all provide
and track the latest version of Rust as they get released every 6 weeks.

Then, when the minimum version is reached, we will stop upgrading and
decide how wide the window of support will be. For instance, a year of
Rust versions. We will probably want to start small, and then widen it
over time, just like the kernel did originally for LLVM, see commit
3519c4d ("Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version").

# Unstable features stabilized

This upgrade allows us to remove the following unstable features since
they were stabilized:

  - `feature(explicit_generic_args_with_impl_trait)` (1.63).
  - `feature(core_ffi_c)` (1.64).
  - `feature(generic_associated_types)` (1.65).
  - `feature(const_ptr_offset_from)` (1.65, *).
  - `feature(bench_black_box)` (1.66, *).
  - `feature(pin_macro)` (1.68).

The ones marked with `*` apply only to our old `rust` branch, not
mainline yet, i.e. only for code that we may potentially upstream.

With this patch applied, the only unstable feature allowed to be used
outside the `kernel` crate is `new_uninit`, though other code to be
upstreamed may increase the list.

Please see [2] for details.

# Other required changes

Since 1.63, `rustdoc` triggers the `broken_intra_doc_links` lint for
links pointing to exported (`#[macro_export]`) `macro_rules`. An issue
was opened upstream [4], but it turns out it is intended behavior. For
the moment, just add an explicit reference for each link. Later we can
revisit this if `rustdoc` removes the compatibility measure.

Nevertheless, this was helpful to discover a link that was pointing to
the wrong place unintentionally. Since that one was actually wrong, it
is fixed in a previous commit independently.

Another change was the addition of `cfg(no_rc)` and `cfg(no_sync)` in
upstream [5], thus remove our original changes for that.

Similarly, upstream now tests that it compiles successfully with
`#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]` [6], which allow us to get rid
of some changes, such as an `#[allow(dead_code)]`.

In addition, remove another `#[allow(dead_code)]` due to new uses
within the standard library.

Finally, add `try_extend_trusted` and move the code in `spec_extend.rs`
since upstream moved it for the infallible version.

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

There are a large amount of changes, but the vast majority of them are
due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded at once.

There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.

Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.

Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.

To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:

    # Get the difference with respect to the old version.
    git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
    git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
        cut -d/ -f3- |
        grep -Fv README.md |
        xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
    git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > old.patch
    git -C linux restore rust/alloc

    # Apply this patch.
    git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch

    # Get the difference with respect to the new version.
    git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
    git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
        cut -d/ -f3- |
        grep -Fv README.md |
        xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
    git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > new.patch
    git -C linux restore rust/alloc

Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.

Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [1]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72mT3bVDKdHgaea-6WiZazd8Mvurqmqegbe5JZxVyLR8Yg@mail.gmail.com/ [3]
Link: rust-lang/rust#106142 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#89891 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#98652 [6]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/process/changes.rst
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====================== =============== ========================================
GNU C 5.1 gcc --version
Clang/LLVM (optional) 11.0.0 clang --version
Rust (optional) 1.62.0 rustc --version
Rust (optional) 1.68.2 rustc --version
bindgen (optional) 0.56.0 bindgen --version
GNU make 3.82 make --version
bash 4.2 bash --version
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mod tests;

extern "Rust" {
// These are the magic symbols to call the global allocator. rustc generates
// These are the magic symbols to call the global allocator. rustc generates
// them to call `__rg_alloc` etc. if there is a `#[global_allocator]` attribute
// (the code expanding that attribute macro generates those functions), or to call
// the default implementations in libstd (`__rdl_alloc` etc. in `library/std/src/alloc.rs`)
// the default implementations in std (`__rdl_alloc` etc. in `library/std/src/alloc.rs`)
// otherwise.
// The rustc fork of LLVM also special-cases these function names to be able to optimize them
// The rustc fork of LLVM 14 and earlier also special-cases these function names to be able to optimize them
// like `malloc`, `realloc`, and `free`, respectively.
#[rustc_allocator]
#[rustc_allocator_nounwind]
#[rustc_nounwind]
fn __rust_alloc(size: usize, align: usize) -> *mut u8;
#[rustc_allocator_nounwind]
#[rustc_deallocator]
#[rustc_nounwind]
fn __rust_dealloc(ptr: *mut u8, size: usize, align: usize);
#[rustc_allocator_nounwind]
#[rustc_reallocator]
#[rustc_nounwind]
fn __rust_realloc(ptr: *mut u8, old_size: usize, align: usize, new_size: usize) -> *mut u8;
#[rustc_allocator_nounwind]
#[rustc_allocator_zeroed]
#[rustc_nounwind]
fn __rust_alloc_zeroed(size: usize, align: usize) -> *mut u8;
}

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/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// use std::alloc::{alloc, dealloc, Layout};
/// use std::alloc::{alloc, dealloc, handle_alloc_error, Layout};
///
/// unsafe {
/// let layout = Layout::new::<u16>();
/// let ptr = alloc(layout);
/// if ptr.is_null() {
/// handle_alloc_error(layout);
/// }
///
/// *(ptr as *mut u16) = 42;
/// assert_eq!(*(ptr as *mut u16), 42);
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#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
extern "Rust" {
// This is the magic symbol to call the global alloc error handler. rustc generates
// This is the magic symbol to call the global alloc error handler. rustc generates
// it to call `__rg_oom` if there is a `#[alloc_error_handler]`, or to call the
// default implementations below (`__rdl_oom`) otherwise.
fn __rust_alloc_error_handler(size: usize, align: usize) -> !;
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#[allow(unused_attributes)]
#[unstable(feature = "alloc_internals", issue = "none")]
pub mod __alloc_error_handler {
use crate::alloc::Layout;

// called via generated `__rust_alloc_error_handler`

// if there is no `#[alloc_error_handler]`
// called via generated `__rust_alloc_error_handler` if there is no
// `#[alloc_error_handler]`.
#[rustc_std_internal_symbol]
pub unsafe extern "C-unwind" fn __rdl_oom(size: usize, _align: usize) -> ! {
panic!("memory allocation of {size} bytes failed")
}

// if there is an `#[alloc_error_handler]`
#[rustc_std_internal_symbol]
pub unsafe extern "C-unwind" fn __rg_oom(size: usize, align: usize) -> ! {
let layout = unsafe { Layout::from_size_align_unchecked(size, align) };
pub unsafe fn __rdl_oom(size: usize, _align: usize) -> ! {
extern "Rust" {
#[lang = "oom"]
fn oom_impl(layout: Layout) -> !;
// This symbol is emitted by rustc next to __rust_alloc_error_handler.
// Its value depends on the -Zoom={panic,abort} compiler option.
static __rust_alloc_error_handler_should_panic: u8;
}

#[allow(unused_unsafe)]
if unsafe { __rust_alloc_error_handler_should_panic != 0 } {
panic!("memory allocation of {size} bytes failed")
} else {
core::panicking::panic_nounwind_fmt(format_args!(
"memory allocation of {size} bytes failed"
))
}
unsafe { oom_impl(layout) }
}
}

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