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[00/15] Enable rust support for linux kernel

Message ID 20251230135734.1973083-1-Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com
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Sadineni, Harish Dec. 30, 2025, 1:57 p.m. UTC 
From: Harish Sadineni <Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com>

v2:
- combined [PATCH 05/16][0] & [PATCH 06/16][1] from v1.
- updated commit message and added in code comments for patch "[PATCH 09/15] kernel-devsrc: copying 
  rust-kernel source to $kerneldir/build"

[0] https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/228559
[1] https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/228560

v1:
The previous series was RFC v4, "Enable Rust support for Linux kernel"
(https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/226623).

In addition, Yoann Congal posted RFC v2, "Kernel Rust out-of-tree module support"
(https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/227281), which builds on top of RFC v4.

The current patch series is a unified version that combines both efforts.
Compared to the earlier series, the main changes are:

-Kernel configuration fragments have been moved to yocto-kernel-cache.
-The kernel fragments have been removed from SRC_URI and from the files directory previously stored under
 recipes-kernel/linux/files.
-Updated the "[PATCH 11/16] selftest/cases/runtime_test: Add test for Linux Rust sample" by appending 
 KERNEL_EXTRA_FEATURES:append = ' features/kernel-sample/kernel-rust-sample.scc' instead of adding this
 directly in the linux-yocto recipe.


This patch series introduces Rust support into the linux-yocto kernel recipe
and related build infrastructure in the Yocto Project. The goal is to enable
building the Linux kernel with Rust components and provide support for building 
kernel module which is written in rust and also provide support to build
rust kernel modules in sdk. 

And this series adds test for Linux Rust sample and also added support for out-of-tree kernel 
module written in Rust as well as associated test.

Summary of patches:

- Patch 01: Extend 'bindgen-cli' to support 'nativesdk', allowing it to be available in the SDK environment.
- Patch 02: Add required dependencies ('clang-native', 'rust-native', 'bindgen-cli-native') to the kernel to support Rust binding generation.
- Patch 03: Install the Rust standard library source ('library/') into `work-shared` and which will be later copied to
           linux-yocto recipe-sysroot-native.
- Patch 04: Added 'rust-kernel' to DISTRO_FEATURES_FILTER_NATIVE and DISTRO_FEATURES_FILTER_NATIVESDK, the 'rust-kernel' feature automatically
           propagates from target DISTRO_FEATURES to native/nativesdk builds
- Patch 05: Stage the Rust sources into `recipe-sysroot-native` for kernel build compatibility, making them visible during native builds
            and Updated `kernel-yocto.bbclass` to invoke `make rustavailable` during 'do_kernel_configme', ensuring Rust readiness.
- Patch 06: Add kernel configuration support for Rust (via 'kernel-rust.scc'), enabling the Rust build options in kernel config.
- Patch 07: Fixed buildpaths errors when rust is enabled for kernel by appending --remap-path-prefix to RUST_DEBUG_REMAP
- Patch 08: Disabling ccache when rust-kernel is enabled for linux-yocto.
- Patch 09: Copy Rust kernel sources into kernel-devsrc build directory which will be required while running 'make prepare' in sdk.
- Patch 10: Added oe-selftest case for the Linux Rust sample.
- patch 11: Copying include/config/auto.conf in STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR
- patch 12: Export artifacts needed for out-of-tree Rust compilation
- patch 13: Prepare out-of-tree rust module compilation
- patch 14: Added rust-out-of-tree-module recipe in meta-skeleton layer
- patch 15: Added rust-out-of-tree selftest

Patches have been build-tested successfully on:
- qemuarm64
- qemux86-64

Benchmark test-result for x86-64:
+-------------------------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| DISTRO_FEATURES               |   real     |   user    |    sys    |  FS usage |
+-------------------------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| rust-kernel (enabled)         | 46m1.720s  | 0m28.864s | 0m3.696s  |   58 GB   |
| rust-kernel (disabled)        | 30m1.053s  | 0m20.091s | 0m2.748s  |   33 GB   |
+-------------------------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

The increased in time & fs is due to kernel rust dependencies in
linux-yocto.

Harish Sadineni (8):
  bindgen-cli: extend BBCLASSEXTEND to include nativesdk
  linux-yocto: conditionally add clang/rust/bindgen-cli-native to
    DEPENDS
  rust: install Rust library sources for 'make rustavailable' support
  bitbake.conf: Include "rust-kernel" in native/nativesdk feature
    filters
  kernel-yocto: enable Rust kernel support via rustavailable and staged
    rustlib sources
  linux-yocto: enable Rust support in kernel configuration
  kernel-yocto: Fix for buildpaths errors when rust is enabled for
    kernel
  kernel-devsrc: copying rust-kernel source to $kerneldir/build

Yoann Congal (7):
  kernel-yocto.bbclass: Disable ccache when rust-kernel is enabled
  selftest/cases/runtime_test: Add test for Linux Rust sample
  kernel.bbclass: Copy include/config/auto.conf in
    STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR
  kernel.bbclass: Export artifacts needed for out-of-tree Rust
    compilation
  module.bbclass: Prepare out-of-tree rust module compilation
  meta-skeleton: Add rust-out-of-tree-module recipe
  runtime_test: Add rust-out-of-tree selftest

 .../rust-out-of-tree-module_git.bb            | 18 ++++++++++
 meta/classes-recipe/kernel-yocto.bbclass      | 28 +++++++++++++++
 meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass            | 19 ++++++++++
 meta/classes-recipe/module.bbclass            |  8 +++++
 meta/conf/bitbake.conf                        |  4 +--
 meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py  | 35 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../bindgen-cli/bindgen-cli_0.72.1.bb         |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.91.1.bb     | 17 +++++++++
 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-devsrc.bb    |  9 +++++
 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc     |  2 ++
 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.16.bb |  1 +
 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.18.bb |  1 +
 12 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/rust-out-of-tree-module/rust-out-of-tree-module_git.bb

Comments

Sadineni, Harish Dec. 30, 2025, 2:05 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi all,

Please ignore this series, I forgot to add v2 in the subject line.

Thanks,
Harish