Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] rust: alloc: specify the minimum alignment of each allocator

[Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed Aug 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM CEST, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 07:52:35PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> >> On Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM CEST, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> >> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
> >> > index aa2dfa9dca4c309e5a9eafc7da6a8a9bd7b54b11..25fc9f9ae3b4e471a08d77130b374bd1397f7384 100644
> >> > --- a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
> >> > +++ b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
> >> > @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
> >> >  use crate::bindings;
> >> >  use crate::pr_warn;
> >> >
> >> > +const ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN: usize = bindings::ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as usize;
> >>
> >> I think this needs the following diff:
> >>
> >> diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> >> index 84d60635e8a9..4ad9add117ea 100644
> >> --- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> >> +++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> >> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
> >>
> >>  /* `bindgen` gets confused at certain things. */
> >>  const size_t RUST_CONST_HELPER_ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN = ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN;
> >> +const size_t RUST_CONST_HELPER_ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN = ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN;
> >>  const size_t RUST_CONST_HELPER_PAGE_SIZE = PAGE_SIZE;
> >>  const gfp_t RUST_CONST_HELPER_GFP_ATOMIC = GFP_ATOMIC;
> >>  const gfp_t RUST_CONST_HELPER_GFP_KERNEL = GFP_KERNEL;
> >> diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
> >> index 25fc9f9ae3b4..5003907f0240 100644
> >> --- a/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
> >> +++ b/rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs
> >> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> >>  use crate::bindings;
> >>  use crate::pr_warn;
> >>
> >> -const ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN: usize = bindings::ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as usize;
> >> +const ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN: usize = bindings::ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN;
> >>
> >>  /// The contiguous kernel allocator.
> >>  ///
> >>
> >>
> >> No need to resend I can fix it up when applying the patch.
> >
> > Hmm. Maybe that depends on the configuration? The constant was generated
> > for me. Either way, happy with the suggested change.
>
> That is a bit odd, I'd like to understand this before merging.
>
> All of the definitions in the kernel are defines that shouldn't be picked up by
> bindgen.

It is possible for bindgen to pick up a #define in some cases. The
main case where bindgen fails is when the macro is defined in terms of
a function-like macro. This is why we see so many failures with _IO*
macros.

>  Are you sure you do not have additional local changes?

Yes.

Alice