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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Things have calmed down a bit on the docs front, with no earthshaking
changes this time around:
- Ongoing work on the Japanese and Portuguese translations
- Better integration of the MAINTAINERS file into the rendered
documents, including a search interface
- A seemingly infinite supply of fixes for typos, minor grammatical
issues, and related problems that LLMs find with abandon"
* tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (93 commits)
docs: pt_BR: Translate 3.Early-stage.rst into Portuguese
docs: pt_BR: update "Purpose of Defconfigs" section in maintainer-soc.rst
Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: fix grammar
docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (interleaved-replies)
docs: Fix minor grammatical error
docs/{it_it,sp_SP,zh_CN,zh_TW}: update references to removed CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
Documentation: process: fix brackets
Documentation: arch: fix brackets
docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st
docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n
docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file paths
docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text
docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
docs: sonypi: Fix stale header file path
docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameter
iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parameters
docs: md: fix grammar in speed_limit description
docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)
Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
docs: pt_BR: update maintainer-handbooks
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Commit 9edd04c4189e ("docs: Raise minimum pahole version to 1.26 for
KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS kfuncs") raised the minimum required pahole version
from 1.22 to 1.26 in the requirements table and added a paragraph
explaining the failure mode for distributions still shipping pahole
v1.25 (e.g. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS).
The next day, commit ece7e57afd51 ("docs: changes.rst and ver_linux:
sort the lists") came through a different tree (docs vs sched_ext) and
re-flowed the table alphabetically, but its base did not include
9edd04c4189e. When the two commits met in mainline, the textual rewrite
of the table won and the version bump was lost. The added "Since Linux
7.0..." paragraph also disappeared.
The result is that changes.rst on master (v7.1-rc5) lists pahole 1.22
again, even though sched_ext kfuncs annotated with KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS
genuinely require v1.26 to produce a correct vmlinux BTF. Users on
distributions with pahole v1.25 hit "func_proto incompatible with
vmlinux" when loading any sched_ext BPF program (scx_simple,
scx_qmap, ...) and have no documentation pointing them at the version
gap.
Restore both changes from 9edd04c4189e.
Fixes: ece7e57afd51 ("docs: changes.rst and ver_linux: sort the lists")
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260526022033.1301884-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
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The current minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel is 15.0.0.
However, there are two deficiencies compared to GCC that were fixed in
LLVM 17 that are starting to become more noticeable.
The first was a bug in LLVM's scope checker [1], where all labels in a
function were validated as potential targets of an asm goto statement,
even if they were not listed in the asm goto statement as targets. This
becomes particularly problematic when the cleanup attribute is used, as
asm goto(... : label_a);
...
label_a:
...
int var __free(foo);
asm goto(... : label_b);
...
label_b:
...
will trigger an error since the scope checker will complain that the
cleanup variable would be skipped when jumping from the first asm goto
to label_b (which obviously cannot happen). This issue was the catalyst
for commit e2ffa15b9baa ("kbuild: Disable CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT on
clang < 17"). Unfortunately, this issue is reproducible with regular asm
goto in addition to asm goto with outputs, so that change was not
entirely sufficient to avoid the issue altogether. As asm goto has
effectively been required since commit a0a12c3ed057 ("asm goto:
eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO") and the usage of the cleanup attribute
continues to grow across the tree, raising the minimum to a version that
avoids this issue altogether is a better long term solution than
attempting to workaround it at every spot where it happens.
The second issue is an incompatibility with GCC 8.1+ around variables
marked with const being valid constant expressions for _Static_assert
and other macros [2]. With GCC 8.1 being the minimum supported version
since commit 118c40b7b503 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30"),
this incompatibility becomes more of a maintenance burden since only
clang-15 and clang-16 are affected by it.
Looking at the clang version of various major distributions through
Docker images, no one should be left behind as a result of this bump, as
the old ones cannot clear the current minimum of 15.0.0.
archlinux:latest clang version 22.1.3
debian:oldoldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2
debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6
debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 19.1.7 (3+b1)
debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 21.1.8 (3+b1)
debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 21.1.8 (7+b1)
fedora:42 clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42)
fedora:latest clang version 21.1.8 (Fedora 21.1.8-4.fc43)
fedora:44 clang version 22.1.1 (Fedora 22.1.1-2.fc44)
fedora:rawhide clang version 22.1.3 (Fedora 22.1.3-1.fc45)
opensuse/leap:latest clang version 17.0.6
opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 21.1.8
ubuntu:jammy Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
ubuntu:noble Ubuntu clang version 18.1.3 (1ubuntu1)
ubuntu:questing Ubuntu clang version 20.1.8 (0ubuntu4)
ubuntu:resolute Ubuntu clang version 21.1.8 (6ubuntu1)
17.0.1 is chosen as the minimum instead of 17.0.0 to ensure that the
particular version of LLVM 17 has the two aforementioned bugs fixed, as
the second was fixed during the 17.0.0 release candidate phase and it
was not until LLVM 18 that LLVM adopted the scheme of x.0.0 being a
prerelease version and x.1.0 is a release version [3] to help with
scenarios such as this.
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/f023f5cdb2e6c19026f04a15b5a935c041835d14 [1]
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/0b2d5b967d98375793897295d651f58f6fbd3034 [2]
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4532617ae420056bf32f6403dde07fb99d276a49 [3]
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517-bump-minimum-supported-llvm-version-to-17-v2-1-b3b8cda46bdd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:
- Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations,
Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the
beginnings of a Portuguese translation.
- New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
Python gbb scripts, and more.
- More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding
self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C
tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and
more.
- Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put
both into alphabetical order.
... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
improvements"
* tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits)
Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation
Documentation: Add managed interrupts
Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference
docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version
docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview
tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling
docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/
Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable
Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass
sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS
Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format
docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation
docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst
Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation"
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As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1],
we are going to follow Debian Stable's `bindgen` versions as our minimum
supported version.
Debian Trixie was released with `bindgen` 0.71.1, which it still uses
to this day [2].
Debian Trixie's release happened on 2025-08-09 [3], which means that a
fair amount of time has passed since its release for kernel developers
to upgrade.
Thus bump the minimum to the new version.
Then, in later commits, clean up most of the workarounds and other bits
that this upgrade of the minimum allows us.
Ubuntu 25.10 also has a recent enough `bindgen` [4] (even the already
unsupported Ubuntu 25.04 had it), and they also provide versioned packages
with `bindgen` 0.71.1 back to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS [5].
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]
Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/bindgen [2]
Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ [3]
Link: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=bindgen [4]
Link: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-bindgen-0.71 [5]
Acked-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405235309.418950-18-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1],
we are going to follow Debian Stable's Rust versions as our minimum
supported version.
Debian Trixie was released with a Rust 1.85.0 toolchain [2], which it
still uses to this day [3] (i.e. no update to Rust 1.85.1).
Debian Trixie's release happened on 2025-08-09 [4], which means that a
fair amount of time has passed since its release for kernel developers
to upgrade.
Thus bump the minimum to the new version.
Then, in later commits, clean up most of the workarounds and other bits
that this upgrade of the minimum allows us.
pin-init was left as-is since the patches come from upstream. And the
vendored crates are unmodified, since we do not want to change those.
Note that the minimum LLVM major version for Rust 1.85.0 is LLVM 18 (the
Rust upstream binaries use LLVM 19.1.7), thus e.g. `RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION`
tests can also be updated, but there are no suitable ones to simplify.
Ubuntu 25.10 also has a recent enough Rust toolchain [5], and they also
provide versioned packages with a Rust 1.85.1 toolchain even back to
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS [6].
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]
Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#desktops-and-well-known-packages [2]
Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/rustc [3]
Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ [4]
Link: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=rustc [5]
Link: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rustc-1.85 [6]
Acked-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405235309.418950-6-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Sort the lists of tools in both scripts/ver_linux and
Documentation/process/changes.rst into alphabetical order, facilitating
comparison between the two.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260325194811.78509-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>
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Some of the entries in both Documentation/process/changes.rst and
script/ver_linux were obsolete; update them to reflect the current way of
getting version information.
Many were missing altogether; add the relevant information for:
bash, bc, bindgen, btrfs-progs, Clang, gdb, GNU awk, GNU tar,
GRUB, GRUB2, gtags, iptables, kmod, mcelog, mkimage, openssl,
pahole, Python, Rust, Sphinx, squashfs-tools
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260325194616.78093-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>
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Just give the name of the file and let the automarkup stuff do its thing.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Support associating BPF program with struct_ops (Amery Hung)
- Switch BPF local storage to rqspinlock and remove recursion detection
counters which were causing false positives (Amery Hung)
- Fix live registers marking for indirect jumps (Anton Protopopov)
- Introduce execution context detection BPF helpers (Changwoo Min)
- Improve verifier precision for 32bit sign extension pattern
(Cupertino Miranda)
- Optimize BTF type lookup by sorting vmlinux BTF and doing binary
search (Donglin Peng)
- Allow states pruning for misc/invalid slots in iterator loops (Eduard
Zingerman)
- In preparation for ASAN support in BPF arenas teach libbpf to move
global BPF variables to the end of the region and enable arena kfuncs
while holding locks (Emil Tsalapatis)
- Introduce support for implicit arguments in kfuncs and migrate a
number of them to new API. This is a prerequisite for cgroup
sub-schedulers in sched-ext (Ihor Solodrai)
- Fix incorrect copied_seq calculation in sockmap (Jiayuan Chen)
- Fix ORC stack unwind from kprobe_multi (Jiri Olsa)
- Speed up fentry attach by using single ftrace direct ops in BPF
trampolines (Jiri Olsa)
- Require frozen map for calculating map hash (KP Singh)
- Fix lock entry creation in TAS fallback in rqspinlock (Kumar
Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Allow user space to select cpu in lookup/update operations on per-cpu
array and hash maps (Leon Hwang)
- Make kfuncs return trusted pointers by default (Matt Bobrowski)
- Introduce "fsession" support where single BPF program is executed
upon entry and exit from traced kernel function (Menglong Dong)
- Allow bpf_timer and bpf_wq use in all programs types (Mykyta
Yatsenko, Andrii Nakryiko, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Alexei
Starovoitov)
- Make KF_TRUSTED_ARGS the default for all kfuncs and clean up their
definition across the tree (Puranjay Mohan)
- Allow BPF arena calls from non-sleepable context (Puranjay Mohan)
- Improve register id comparison logic in the verifier and extend
linked registers with negative offsets (Puranjay Mohan)
- In preparation for BPF-OOM introduce kfuncs to access memcg events
(Roman Gushchin)
- Use CFI compatible destructor kfunc type (Sami Tolvanen)
- Add bitwise tracking for BPF_END in the verifier (Tianci Cao)
- Add range tracking for BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD in the verifier (Yazhou
Tang)
- Make BPF selftests work with 64k page size (Yonghong Song)
* tag 'bpf-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (268 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix outdated test on storage->smap
selftests/bpf: Choose another percpu variable in bpf for btf_dump test
selftests/bpf: Remove test_task_storage_map_stress_lookup
selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/task_storage_nodeadlock test
selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/recursion test
selftests/bpf: Update sk_storage_omem_uncharge test
bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy}
bpf: Support lockless unlink when freeing map or local storage
bpf: Prepare for bpf_selem_unlink_nofail()
bpf: Remove unused percpu counter from bpf_local_storage_map_free
bpf: Remove cgroup local storage percpu counter
bpf: Remove task local storage percpu counter
bpf: Change local_storage->lock and b->lock to rqspinlock
bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink to failable
bpf: Convert bpf_selem_link_map to failable
bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink_map to failable
bpf: Select bpf_local_storage_map_bucket based on bpf_local_storage
selftests/xsk: fix number of Tx frags in invalid packet
selftests/xsk: properly handle batch ending in the middle of a packet
bpf: Prevent reentrance into call_rcu_tasks_trace()
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Fix various typos and grammatical errors across documentation files:
- Fix missing preposition 'in' in process/changes.rst
- Correct 'result by' to 'result from' in admin-guide/README.rst
- Fix 'before hand' to 'beforehand' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
- Correct 'allows to limit' to 'allows limiting' in hugetlb.rst,
cgroup-v2.rst, and kconfig-language.rst
- Fix 'needs precisely know' to 'needs to precisely know'
- Correct 'overcommited' to 'overcommitted' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix subject-verb agreement: 'never causes' to 'never cause'
- Fix 'there is enough' to 'there are enough' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix 'metadatas' to 'metadata' in filesystems/erofs.rst
- Fix 'hardwares' to 'hardware' in scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
Signed-off-by: Nauman Sabir <officialnaumansabir@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20260115230110.7734-1-officialnaumansabir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subsequent patches in the series change vmlinux linking scripts to
unconditionally pass --btf_encode_detached to pahole, which was
introduced in v1.22 [1][2].
This change allows to remove PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF Kconfig option and
other checks of older pahole versions.
[1] https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/releases/tag/v1.22
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cbafbf4e-9073-4383-8ee6-1353f9e5869c@oracle.com/
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181825.1289460-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
over:
- Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
"literal include" mode.
- Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
converted to Python and updated for current systems.
- A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.
- Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
protocol.
- A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.
... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
etc"
* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
docs: remove cdomain.py
Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
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s390 and x86 have required LLVM 15 since
30d17fac6aae ("scripts/min-tool-version.sh: raise minimum clang version to 15.0.0 for s390")
7861640aac52 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0")
respectively but most other architectures allow LLVM 13.0.1 or newer. In
accordance with the recent minimum supported version of GCC bump that
happened in
118c40b7b503 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30")
do the same for LLVM to 15.0.0.
Of the supported releases of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE
surveyed in evaluating this bump, this only leaves behind Debian
Bookworm (14.0.6) and Ubuntu Jammy (14.0.0). Debian Trixie has 19.1.7
and Ubuntu Noble has 18.1.3 (so there are viable upgrade paths) or users
can use apt.llvm.org, which provides even newer packages for those
distributions.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-1-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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Python is listed as an optional dependency, but this is not
true, as:
1) arm (multi_v7_defconfig and other defconfigs) and arm64 defconfig
needs it due to DRM_MSM dependencies;
2) CONFIG_LTO_CLANG runs a python script at scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o;
3) kernel-doc is called during compilation when some DRM options
like CONFIG_DRM_I915_WERROR are enabled;
4) allyesconfig/allmodconfig will enable CONFIG_* dependencies
that needs it;
5) besides DRM, other subsystems seem to have logic calling *.py
scripts.
So, better document that and change the dependency from optional
to mandatory to reflect the current needs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b03b95b8d09358e81e4f27942839191f49b0ba80.1753806485.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
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The reiserfsprogs package is no longer needed since ReiserFS was removed
in Linux 6.13. Furthermore, the package is no longer maintained.
Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2d6b194b33e8aacd12999b6ddfe21b5753c1171c.1749352106.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com
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The change to binutils-2.30 missed one reference in the Documentation
that needs to be updated to match.
Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Commit a3e8fe814ad1 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1")
raised the minimum compiler version as enforced by Kbuild to gcc-8.1
and clang-15 for x86.
This is actually the same gcc version that has been discussed as the
minimum for all architectures several times in the past, with little
objection. A previous concern was the kernel for SLE15-SP7 needing to
be built with gcc-7. As this ended up still using linux-6.4 and there
is no plan for an SP8, this is no longer a problem.
Change it for all architectures and adjust the documentation accordingly.
A few version checks can be removed in the process. The binutils
version 2.30 is the lowest version used in combination with gcc-8 on
common distros, so use that as the corresponding minimum.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871q7yxrgv.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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The current minimal version doesn't match what we have currently
at the Kernel:
$ vermin -v $(git ls-files *.py)
...
Minimum required versions: 3.10
Incompatible versions: 2
Those are the Python scripts requiring versions higher than current minimal (3.5):
!2, 3.10 tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/generators/__init__.py
!2, 3.10 tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/generators/program.py
!2, 3.10 tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/subcmds/source.py
!2, 3.10 tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/xdr_ast.py
!2, 3.10 tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/test_raw_pylibcpupower.py
!2, 3.9 tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py
!2, 3.9 tools/net/ynl/ethtool.py
!2, 3.9 tools/net/ynl/cli.py
!2, 3.9 scripts/checktransupdate.py
!2, 3.8 tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/plugin-lib/nsPlugin.py
!2, 3.8 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/base.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/selftests/turbostat/smi_aperf_mperf.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/selftests/turbostat/defcolumns.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/selftests/turbostat/added_perf_counters.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/conftest.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/qemu_config.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_tool_test.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_parser.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_json.py
!2, 3.7 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_config.py
!2, 3.7 tools/perf/scripts/python/gecko.py
!2, 3.7 scripts/rust_is_available_test.py
!2, 3.7 scripts/bpf_doc.py
!2, 3.6 tools/writeback/wb_monitor.py
!2, 3.6 tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py
!2, 3.6 tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py
!2, 3.6 tools/usb/p9_fwd.py
!2, 3.6 tools/tracing/rtla/sample/timerlat_load.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/ynl.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/utils.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/nsim.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/netns.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/ksft.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/ksft.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_tablet.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_sony.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_mouse.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/base_gamepad.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/base_device.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/stats.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/shaper.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/queues.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/ping.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/load.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/__init__.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/env.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/pp_alloc_fail.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/nic_performance.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/nic_link_layer.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/lib/py/linkconfig.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/lib/py/__init__.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/devmem.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/devlink_port_split.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/csum.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/devices/probe/test_discoverable_devices.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool_synctypes.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/generate_udp_fragments.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/kunit/run_checks.py
!2, 3.6 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_printer.py
!2, 3.6 tools/sched_ext/scx_show_state.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/scripts/python/flamegraph.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/scripts/python/arm-cs-trace-disasm.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/pmu-events/models.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/pmu-events/metric_test.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py
!2, 3.6 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
!2, 3.6 tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py
!2, 3.6 tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-c.py
!2, 3.6 tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
!2, 3.6 tools/net/ynl/lib/nlspec.py
!2, 3.6 tools/crypto/tcrypt/tcrypt_speed_compare.py
!2, 3.6 tools/cgroup/iocost_monitor.py
!2, 3.6 tools/cgroup/iocost_coef_gen.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/make_fit.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/macro_checker.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/get_abi.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/gdb/linux/timerlist.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/gdb/linux/pgtable.py
!2, 3.6 scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py
!2, 3.6 Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
Even if we exclude tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/, the minimal version is
Python 3.9.
Update process/changes to reflect the current minimal version required to
run Python scripts outside tools.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/34dda7a5a75f30380d95d8e85a8813be98dc72fe.1739254187.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
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Doing that allows us to get rid of all backward-compatible code.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d79e357468c20d86913e9e343d785398f728aabb.1739254187.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
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The 'cpio' command is used solely for copying header files to the
temporary directory. However, there is no strong reason to use 'cpio'
for this purpose. For example, scripts/package/install-extmod-build
uses the 'tar' command to copy files.
This commit replaces the use of 'cpio' with 'tar' because 'tar' is
already used in this script to generate kheaders_data.tar.xz anyway.
Performance-wide, there is no significant difference between 'cpio'
and 'tar'.
[Before]
$ rm -fr kheaders; mkdir kheaders
$ time sh -c '
for f in include arch/x86/include
do
find "$f" -name "*.h"
done | cpio --quiet -pd kheaders
'
real 0m0.148s
user 0m0.021s
sys 0m0.140s
[After]
$ rm -fr kheaders; mkdir kheaders
$ time sh -c '
for f in include arch/x86/include
do
find "$f" -name "*.h"
done | tar -c -f - -T - | tar -xf - -C kheaders
'
real 0m0.098s
user 0m0.024s
sys 0m0.131s
Revert commit 69ef0920bdd3 ("Docs: Add cpio requirement to changes.rst")
because 'cpio' is not used anywhere else during the kernel build.
Please note that the built-in initramfs is created by the in-tree tool,
usr/gen_init_cpio, so it does not rely on the external 'cpio' command
at all.
Remove 'cpio' from the package build dependencies as well.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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The command given in the changes.rst document to check the version of
btrfs-progs is:
-> btrfsck
which does not output the version, and according to manual page of the
btrfs-progs the command to check the version of btrfs-progs is:
-> btrfs --version
Add a fix changing the command to check the version of btrfs-progs.
Signed-off-by: Nihar Chaithanya <niharchaithanya@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241012141425.11852-1-niharchaithanya@gmail.com
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Create file module.builtin.ranges that can be used to find where
built-in modules are located by their addresses. This will be useful for
tracing tools to find what functions are for various built-in modules.
The offset range data for builtin modules is generated using:
- modules.builtin: associates object files with module names
- vmlinux.map: provides load order of sections and offset of first member
per section
- vmlinux.o.map: provides offset of object file content per section
- .*.cmd: build cmd file with KBUILD_MODFILE
The generated data will look like:
.text 00000000-00000000 = _text
.text 0000baf0-0000cb10 amd_uncore
.text 0009bd10-0009c8e0 iosf_mbi
...
.text 00b9f080-00ba011a intel_skl_int3472_discrete
.text 00ba0120-00ba03c0 intel_skl_int3472_discrete intel_skl_int3472_tps68470
.text 00ba03c0-00ba08d6 intel_skl_int3472_tps68470
...
.data 00000000-00000000 = _sdata
.data 0000f020-0000f680 amd_uncore
For each ELF section, it lists the offset of the first symbol. This can
be used to determine the base address of the section at runtime.
Next, it lists (in strict ascending order) offset ranges in that section
that cover the symbols of one or more builtin modules. Multiple ranges
can apply to a single module, and ranges can be shared between modules.
The CONFIG_BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES option controls whether offset range data
is generated for kernel modules that are built into the kernel image.
How it works:
1. The modules.builtin file is parsed to obtain a list of built-in
module names and their associated object names (the .ko file that
the module would be in if it were a loadable module, hereafter
referred to as <kmodfile>). This object name can be used to
identify objects in the kernel compile because any C or assembler
code that ends up into a built-in module will have the option
-DKBUILD_MODFILE=<kmodfile> present in its build command, and those
can be found in the .<obj>.cmd file in the kernel build tree.
If an object is part of multiple modules, they will all be listed
in the KBUILD_MODFILE option argument.
This allows us to conclusively determine whether an object in the
kernel build belong to any modules, and which.
2. The vmlinux.map is parsed next to determine the base address of each
top level section so that all addresses into the section can be
turned into offsets. This makes it possible to handle sections
getting loaded at different addresses at system boot.
We also determine an 'anchor' symbol at the beginning of each
section to make it possible to calculate the true base address of
a section at runtime (i.e. symbol address - symbol offset).
We collect start addresses of sections that are included in the top
level section. This is used when vmlinux is linked using vmlinux.o,
because in that case, we need to look at the vmlinux.o linker map to
know what object a symbol is found in.
And finally, we process each symbol that is listed in vmlinux.map
(or vmlinux.o.map) based on the following structure:
vmlinux linked from vmlinux.a:
vmlinux.map:
<top level section>
<included section> -- might be same as top level section)
<object> -- built-in association known
<symbol> -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to
...
vmlinux linked from vmlinux.o:
vmlinux.map:
<top level section>
<included section> -- might be same as top level section)
vmlinux.o -- need to use vmlinux.o.map
<symbol> -- ignored
...
vmlinux.o.map:
<section>
<object> -- built-in association known
<symbol> -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to
...
3. As sections, objects, and symbols are processed, offset ranges are
constructed in a straight-forward way:
- If the symbol belongs to one or more built-in modules:
- If we were working on the same module(s), extend the range
to include this object
- If we were working on another module(s), close that range,
and start the new one
- If the symbol does not belong to any built-in modules:
- If we were working on a module(s) range, close that range
Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"The highlight is the establishment of a minimum version for the Rust
toolchain, including 'rustc' (and bundled tools) and 'bindgen'.
The initial minimum will be the pinned version we currently have, i.e.
we are just widening the allowed versions. That covers three stable
Rust releases: 1.78.0, 1.79.0, 1.80.0 (getting released tomorrow),
plus beta, plus nightly.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions
that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch
Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux,
Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and
openSUSE Slowroll and Tumbleweed.
In addition, the kernel is now being built-tested by Rust's pre-merge
CI. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it
passes. Similarly, the bindgen tool has agreed to build the kernel in
their CI too.
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will
need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust
compiler versions should generally work.
In addition, the Rust project has proposed getting the kernel into
stable Rust (at least solving the main blockers) as one of its three
flagship goals for 2024H2 [1].
I would like to thank Niko, Sid, Emilio et al. for their help
promoting the collaboration between Rust and the kernel.
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Support several Rust toolchain versions.
- Support several bindgen versions.
- Remove 'cargo' requirement and simplify 'rusttest', thanks to
'alloc' having been dropped last cycle.
- Provide proper error reporting for the 'rust-analyzer' target.
'kernel' crate:
- Add 'uaccess' module with a safe userspace pointers abstraction.
- Add 'page' module with a 'struct page' abstraction.
- Support more complex generics in workqueue's 'impl_has_work!'
macro.
'macros' crate:
- Add 'firmware' field support to the 'module!' macro.
- Improve 'module!' macro documentation.
Documentation:
- Provide instructions on what packages should be installed to build
the kernel in some popular Linux distributions.
- Introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchains.
- Explain '#[no_std]'.
And a few other small bits"
Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/index.html#flagship-goals [1]
* tag 'rust-6.11' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (26 commits)
docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributions
rust: warn about `bindgen` versions 0.66.0 and 0.66.1
rust: start supporting several `bindgen` versions
rust: work around `bindgen` 0.69.0 issue
rust: avoid assuming a particular `bindgen` build
rust: start supporting several compiler versions
rust: simplify Clippy warning flags set
rust: relax most deny-level lints to warnings
rust: allow `dead_code` for never constructed bindings
rust: init: simplify from `map_err` to `inspect_err`
rust: macros: indent list item in `paste!`'s docs
rust: add abstraction for `struct page`
rust: uaccess: add typed accessors for userspace pointers
uaccess: always export _copy_[from|to]_user with CONFIG_RUST
rust: uaccess: add userspace pointers
kbuild: rust-analyzer: improve comment documentation
kbuild: rust-analyzer: better error handling
docs: rust: no_std is used
rust: alloc: add __GFP_HIGHMEM flag
rust: alloc: fix typo in docs for GFP_NOWAIT
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig
- Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script
- Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
- Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
default
- Fix warnings in RPM package builds
- Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
base DTB and overlays
- Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig
- Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig
- Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
package builds
- Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
environment variable
- Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0
- Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms
- Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/
- Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
Arch Linux
- Clean up Kconfig
* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
kbuild: Abort make on install failures
kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
...
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RHEL/CentOS 7, popular distributions that install GNU Make 3.82, reached
EOM/EOL on June 30, 2024. While you may get extended support, it is a
good time to raise the minimum GNU Make version.
The new requirement, GNU Make 4.0, was released in October, 2013.
I did not touch the Makefiles under tools/ because I do not know the
requirements for building tools. I do not find any GNU Make version
checks under tools/.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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Now that we are starting to support several Rust compiler and `bindgen`
versions, there is a good chance some Linux distributions work out of
the box.
Thus, provide some instructions on how to set the toolchain up for a
few major Linux distributions. This simplifies the setup users need to
build the kernel.
In addition, add an introduction to the document so that it is easier
to understand its structure and move the LLVM+Rust kernel.org toolchains
paragraph there (removing "depending on the Linux version"). We may want
to reorganize the document or split it in the future, but I wanted to
focus this commit on the new information added about each particular
distribution.
Finally, remove the `rustup`'s components mention in `changes.rst` since
users do not need it if they install the toolchain via the distributions
(and anyway it was too detailed for that main document).
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
Cc: Fabian Grünbichler <debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email>
Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
Cc: Anna (navi) Figueiredo Gomes <navi@vlhl.dev>
Cc: Matoro Mahri <matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk>
Cc: Ryan Scheel <ryan.havvy@gmail.com>
Cc: figsoda <figsoda@pm.me>
Cc: Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io>
Cc: Theodore Ni <43ngvg@masqt.com>
Cc: Winter <nixos@winter.cafe>
Cc: William Brown <wbrown@suse.de>
Cc: Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@suse.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Cc: Zixing Liu <zixing.liu@canonical.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-14-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus
establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since
there may be important features coming into the language that improve
how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make
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