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Stop emitting less useful debug sections: .debug_pubnames and .debug_pubtypes #688

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weihanglo opened this issue Nov 16, 2023 · 6 comments
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Background

With -C debuginfo=2, the debug info emitted on Linux would include two “pub” sections, .debug_pubnames and .debug_pubtypes. These two sections are for faster name lookup in debugger, but were designed with flaws, and has been superceded by a new debug section in DWARF version 5.

While they have been there since DWARF version 2, debuggers seldom make use of them. Clang doesn't emit it by default, so does GCC. GCC/GDB even have their own “enhanced” format of these pub sections, i.e. .debug_gnu_pubnames and .debug_gnu_pubtypes. These sections are useful only when .gdb_index is present, and that requires an explicit flag passed in to linker invocations.

Let me quote what other people have said (in an random order):

“Okay I see they are rarely useful, but why we do want to remove them?”

Because they are huge!

On x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu with rustc 1.76.0-nightly (dd430bc8c 2023-11-14). For example, cargo built in debug mode has 86 MiB of .debug_pubtypes section and 45 MiB of .debug_pubnames. They take 31% out of the entire 413 MiB for the cargo binary.

click to see size of each section headers of cargo

with pub sections:

target/debug/cargo  :
section                   size       addr
.fini_array                  8   54931704
.fini                       13   45644480
.init_array                 24   54931680
.init                       27    3465216
.note.ABI-tag               32        968
.note.gnu.property          32        936
.debug_gdb_scripts          34   47631760
.comment                    64          0
.interp                     83        848
.plt.got                   568    3469088
.gnu.version_r             592      20784
.dynamic                   624   56279608
.gnu.hash                  632       1000
.gnu.version               942      19836
.tbss                     1083   54931680
.plt                      3840    3465248
.bss                      4128   56866560
.rela.plt                 5736    3457696
.dynstr                   6900      12936
.dynsym                  11304       1632
.data                    46848   56819712
.got                    539472   56280232
.debug_abbrev          1168593          0
.eh_frame_hdr          1321700   47631796
.data.rel.ro           1347896   54931712
.gcc_except_table      1463472   53466184
.rodata                1985936   45645824
.debug_loc             3047693          0
.debug_aranges         3401968          0
.rela.dyn              3436320      21376
.eh_frame              4512688   48953496
.debug_ranges         16426448          0
.debug_line           22984630          0
.text                 42174816    3469664
.debug_pubnames       47198910          0
.debug_str            86259041          0
.debug_pubtypes       90834708          0
.debug_info          104595048          0
Total                432782853

without pub sections:

target/debug/cargo  :
section                   size       addr
.fini_array                  8   54931704
.fini                       13   45644480
.init_array                 24   54931680
.init                       27    3465216
.note.ABI-tag               32        968
.note.gnu.property          32        936
.debug_gdb_scripts          34   47631760
.comment                    64          0
.interp                     83        848
.plt.got                   568    3469088
.gnu.version_r             592      20784
.dynamic                   624   56279608
.gnu.hash                  632       1000
.gnu.version               942      19836
.tbss                     1083   54931680
.plt                      3840    3465248
.bss                      4128   56866560
.rela.plt                 5736    3457696
.dynstr                   6900      12936
.dynsym                  11304       1632
.data                    46848   56819712
.got                    539472   56280232
.debug_abbrev          1163721          0
.eh_frame_hdr          1321700   47631796
.data.rel.ro           1347896   54931712
.gcc_except_table      1463472   53466184
.rodata                1985936   45645824
.debug_loc             3047693          0
.debug_aranges         3401968          0
.rela.dyn              3436320      21376
.eh_frame              4512688   48953496
.debug_ranges         16426448          0
.debug_line           22984630          0
.text                 42174816    3469664
.debug_str            86259041          0
.debug_info          104595048          0
Total                294744363

Another example is a popular CLI tool ripgrep. It is 63 MiB in total in debug mode build, and pub sections made up 27% of the size, which is 17 MiB.

click to see size of each section headers of ripgrep

with pub sections

target/debug/rg  :
section                  size       addr
.fini_array                 8   13007480
.fini                       9    9010744
.init_array                16   13007464
.init                      23     678448
.gnu.hash                  28        720
.interp                    28        624
.note.ABI-tag              32        652
.debug_gdb_scripts         34    9699224
.note.gnu.build-id         36        684
.comment                   70          0
.plt                      160     678480
.tbss                     187   13007464
.data                     200   13455360
.rela.plt                 216     678232
.gnu.version              246       5520
.gnu.version_r            368       5768
.bss                      472   13455560
.dynamic                  576   13383304
.dynstr                  1816       3704
.dynsym                  2952        752
.got                    71480   13383880
.gcc_except_table      217276   10690888
.eh_frame_hdr          221724    9699260
.debug_loc             305044          0
.data.rel.ro           375816   13007488
.debug_abbrev          404234          0
.debug_aranges         544864          0
.rela.dyn              672096       6136
.rodata                688408    9010816
.eh_frame              769904    9920984
.debug_ranges         2950368          0
.debug_line           4093857          0
.debug_pubnames       6489064          0
.text                 8332101     678640
.debug_pubtypes      11176543          0
.debug_str           12135329          0
.debug_info          17493971          0
Total                66949556

without pub sections

target/debug/rg  :
section                  size       addr
.fini_array                 8   13007480
.fini                       9    9010744
.init_array                16   13007464
.init                      23     678448
.gnu.hash                  28        720
.interp                    28        624
.note.ABI-tag              32        652
.debug_gdb_scripts         34    9699224
.note.gnu.build-id         36        684
.comment                   70          0
.plt                      160     678480
.tbss                     187   13007464
.data                     200   13455360
.rela.plt                 216     678232
.gnu.version              246       5520
.gnu.version_r            368       5768
.bss                      472   13455560
.dynamic                  576   13383304
.dynstr                  1816       3704
.dynsym                  2952        752
.got                    71480   13383880
.gcc_except_table      217276   10690888
.eh_frame_hdr          221724    9699260
.debug_loc             305044          0
.data.rel.ro           375816   13007488
.debug_abbrev          401462          0
.debug_aranges         544864          0
.rela.dyn              672096       6136
.rodata                688408    9010816
.eh_frame              769904    9920984
.debug_ranges         2950368          0
.debug_line           4093857          0
.text                 8332101     678640
.debug_str           12135329          0
.debug_info          17493971          0
Total                49281177

That is, in general. If we can remove both of these sections, the final binary size can be cut off around ~30%.

If we can remove both of the sections, conceptually the memory usage would drop a lot during linking stage, and we can save the disk usage as well.

People has suffered from OOM-killed in linking stage and I've traced down. It is usually the output binary size exceeding available RAM.
There is an issue in Rust-for-Linux calling out Rust binaries are huge and looking forward to some solutions. An existing issue in rust-lang/rust: rust-lang/rust#48762.

Change Proposal

We should turn generation of these sections off since they are not useful.

User-facing impact

If any debuggers were using these sections, initial loading of debuginfo might become slower but there should be no functional regressions (debuggers in general do not use these tables so there should not be any such performance degradation, but that is the most likely conceivable negative outcome).

It is possible that other tools use these sections for various purposes, but we do not know of any such tools at this time.

Alternative

Stabilize -Zdwarf-version, or make DWARF version 5 the default on certain platform (presumably on Linux). Pub sections are replaced in DWARFv5 with a better, more compact and useful .debug_names section.

Mentors or Reviewers

@wesleywiser is willing to review

Process

The main points of the Major Change Process are as follows:

  • File an issue describing the proposal.
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  • Once an MCP is seconded, the Final Comment Period begins. If no objections are raised after 10 days, the MCP is considered approved.

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[EXPERIMENT] fix: stop `emitting .debug_pubnames` and `.debug_pubtypes`

### DO NOT MERGE

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A continuation of rust-lang#94181.
Fixes rust-lang#48762
MCP can be found in <rust-lang/compiler-team#688>.

`.debug_pubnames` and `.debug_pubtypes` are poorly designed and people
seldom use them. However, they take a considerable portion of size in
the final binary. This tells LLVM stop emitting those sections on
DWARFv4 or lower. DWARFv5 use `.debug_names` which is more concise
in size and performant for name lookup.
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10-day period passed. Will this be closed automatically, or somebody need to close it then?

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IIRC there is a dedicated meeting where the MCPs are marked as accepted and then @apiraino closes them

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@rustbot label -final-comment-period +major-change-accepted

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bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this issue Dec 11, 2023
fix: stop `emitting .debug_pubnames` and `.debug_pubtypes`

A continuation of rust-lang#94181.
Fixes rust-lang#48762
MCP can be found in <rust-lang/compiler-team#688>.

`.debug_pubnames` and `.debug_pubtypes` are poorly designed and people
seldom use them. However, they take a considerable portion of size in
the final binary. This tells LLVM stop emitting those sections on
DWARFv4 or lower. DWARFv5 use `.debug_names` which is more concise
in size and performant for name lookup.

Some other no-really-useful personal notes:

<details><summary>Details</summary>
<p>

## Pepole saying they are not useful

* rust-lang#48762
* https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/317568-t-compiler.2Fwg-debugging/topic/investigating.20debuginfo.20size/near/342713604
* `DwarfCompileUnit::hasDwarfPubSections()` — https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/f633f325a1b808d33ca9653ed373353549ddcde6/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DwarfCompileUnit.cpp#L1477-L1494
* clang default to no debug name table when no option provided — https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/f633f325a1b808d33ca9653ed373353549ddcde6/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp#L1819-L1824
* GCC explicitly says GDB doesn't use pub sections (`TARGET_WANT_DEBUG_PUB_SECTIONS` only be true on Darwin) — https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/5d2a360f0a541646abb11efdbabc33c6a04de7ee/gcc/target.def#L6985-L6990 and https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/blob/319b460545dc79280e2904dcc280057cf71fb753/gold/dwarf_reader.h#L424-L427
* Probably the only place that makes use of pub section in lldb — https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/725115d7bba2faf3d0c21442f4661dea77b8a77c/lldb/source/Plugins/SymbolFile/DWARF/SymbolFileDWARF.cpp#L2117-L2135

* "The -gsplit-dwarf option requires -ggnu-pubnames." — https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/5d2a360f0a541646abb11efdbabc33c6a04de7ee/gcc/opts.cc#L1205

* LLVM: Always emit `.debug_names` with dwarf 5 for Apple platforms — https://reviews.llvm.org/D118754

</p>
</details>
bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this issue Dec 11, 2023
…wiser

fix: stop emitting `.debug_pubnames` and `.debug_pubtypes`

A continuation of rust-lang#94181.
Fixes rust-lang#48762
MCP can be found in <rust-lang/compiler-team#688>.

`.debug_pubnames` and `.debug_pubtypes` are poorly designed and people
seldom use them. However, they take a considerable portion of size in
the final binary. This tells LLVM stop emitting those sections on
DWARFv4 or lower. DWARFv5 use `.debug_names` which is more concise
in size and performant for name lookup.

Some other no-really-useful personal notes:

<details><summary>Details</summary>
<p>

## Pepole saying they are not useful

* rust-lang#48762
* https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/317568-t-compiler.2Fwg-debugging/topic/investigating.20debuginfo.20size/near/342713604
* `DwarfCompileUnit::hasDwarfPubSections()` — https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/f633f325a1b808d33ca9653ed373353549ddcde6/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DwarfCompileUnit.cpp#L1477-L1494
* clang default to no debug name table when no option provided — https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/f633f325a1b808d33ca9653ed373353549ddcde6/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp#L1819-L1824
* GCC explicitly says GDB doesn't use pub sections (`TARGET_WANT_DEBUG_PUB_SECTIONS` only be true on Darwin) — https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/5d2a360f0a541646abb11efdbabc33c6a04de7ee/gcc/target.def#L6985-L6990 and https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/blob/319b460545dc79280e2904dcc280057cf71fb753/gold/dwarf_reader.h#L424-L427
* Probably the only place that makes use of pub section in lldb — https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/725115d7bba2faf3d0c21442f4661dea77b8a77c/lldb/source/Plugins/SymbolFile/DWARF/SymbolFileDWARF.cpp#L2117-L2135

* "The -gsplit-dwarf option requires -ggnu-pubnames." — https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/5d2a360f0a541646abb11efdbabc33c6a04de7ee/gcc/opts.cc#L1205

* LLVM: Always emit `.debug_names` with dwarf 5 for Apple platforms — https://reviews.llvm.org/D118754

</p>
</details>
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fbq pushed a commit to Rust-for-Linux/linux that referenced this issue Feb 17, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: #2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
fbq pushed a commit to Rust-for-Linux/linux that referenced this issue Feb 19, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: #2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
ojeda added a commit to Rust-for-Linux/linux that referenced this issue Feb 29, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: #2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
bertschingert pushed a commit to bertschingert/bcachefs that referenced this issue Mar 9, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
bertschingert pushed a commit to bertschingert/bcachefs that referenced this issue Mar 9, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
y86-dev pushed a commit to y86-dev/linux that referenced this issue Mar 10, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
bertschingert pushed a commit to bertschingert/bcachefs that referenced this issue Mar 12, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
jannau pushed a commit to jannau/linux that referenced this issue Mar 25, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
happy-thw pushed a commit to happy-thw/rust-for-linux that referenced this issue Apr 2, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4da06e ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

# Unstable features

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

# Required changes

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

# Other changes

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
jannau pushed a commit to jannau/linux that referenced this issue Apr 8, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
herrnst pushed a commit to herrnst/linux-asahi that referenced this issue Apr 27, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
herrnst pushed a commit to herrnst/linux-asahi that referenced this issue Apr 27, 2024
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].

See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").

No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.

The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.

Please see [3] for details.

`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.

Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~92 KiB (~15%)
    rust/core.o                  ~114 KiB ( ~5%)

In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:

    samples/rust/rust_minimal.o   ~11 KiB (~6%)
    rust/kernel.o                 ~17 KiB (~5%)
    rust/core.o                   ~21 KiB (~1.5%)

In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].

The vast majority of changes 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://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: Rust-for-Linux/linux#2 [3]
Link: rust-lang/compiler-team#688 [4]
Link: rust-lang/rust#117962 [5]
Link: rust-lang/rust#118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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