Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] scripts: generate_rust_analyzer.py: add type hints

From: Tamir Duberstein
Date: Wed Mar 19 2025 - 18:26:13 EST


On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM Trevor Gross <tmgross@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Python type hints allow static analysis tools like mypy to detect type
> > errors during development, improving the developer experience.
> >
> > Python type hints have been present in the kernel since 2019 at the
> > latest; see commit 6ebf5866f2e8 ("kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for
> > running KUnit tests").
> >
> > Run `uv tool run mypy --strict scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py` to
> > verify.
>
> From the discussion, it may be better to instead mention the direct
> invocation (without uv).

👍 done.

> Could you also mention the target min version? Since apparently the
> kernel has a spread. It looks like maybe 3.8 based on what is used
> here.

Added, it is now 3.8 because mypy doesn't support anything lower.

>
> > This removes `"is_proc_macro": false` from `rust-project.json` in
> > exchange for stricter types. This field is interpreted as false if
> > absent[1] so this doesn't change the behavior of rust-analyzer.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/8d01570b5e812a49daa1f08404269f6ea5dd73a1/crates/project-model/src/project_json.rs#L372-L373 [1]
> > Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py b/scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py
> > index 7e78b926e61f..c73ea8d116a4 100755
> > --- a/scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py
> > +++ b/scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py
> > @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ import os
> > import pathlib
> > import subprocess
> > import sys
> > +import typing as T
>
> Nit: is there any need to keep everything namespaced? I think it
> should be fine to import `Iterable` `TypedDict` etc directly since
> they aren't confusable.

I saw this style in another project and liked it, but I don't feel
strongly. Changed.

>
> Same for `pathlib.Path` since there is no other `Path` (some of that
> is preexisting).

I'll leave this one as is to avoid more churn.

>
> > + def append_proc_macro_crate(
> > + display_name: str,
> > + root_module: pathlib.Path,
> > + deps: list[str],
> > + cfg: list[str] = [],
> > + ) -> None:
> > + append_crate(display_name, root_module, deps, cfg)
> > + proc_macro_dylib_name = subprocess.check_output(
> > + [os.environ["RUSTC"], "--print", "file-names", "--crate-name", display_name, "--crate-type", "proc-macro", "-"],
>
> Nit, may as well use this opportunity to wrap the line.

I considered that, but when you use git with `-w` this line doesn't
change, so I'd rather leave it.

>
> > + stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
> > + ).decode('utf-8').strip()
> > + crate: ProcMacroCrate = {
> > + **crates[-1],
> > + "is_proc_macro": True,
> > + "proc_macro_dylib_path": f"{objtree}/rust/{proc_macro_dylib_name}",
> > }
> > - if is_proc_macro:
> > - proc_macro_dylib_name = subprocess.check_output(
> > - [os.environ["RUSTC"], "--print", "file-names", "--crate-name", display_name, "--crate-type", "proc-macro", "-"],
> > - stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
> > - ).decode('utf-8').strip()
> > - crate["proc_macro_dylib_path"] = f"{objtree}/rust/{proc_macro_dylib_name}"
> > - crates_indexes[display_name] = len(crates)
> > - crates.append(crate)
> > + crates[-1] = crate
>
> The unpacking is a bit confusing here, can `crates[-1]` just be set
> rather than duplicating and replacing it?
>
> Maybe the body of `append_crate` should be `build_crate(...) -> Crate`
> (which could then be a top-level function), then `append_crate`,
> `append_crate_with_generated`, etc call that and handle modification /
> appending themselves.

This is a nice improvement. Done.

> > + crate: CrateWithGenerated = {
> > + **crates[-1],
> > + "source": {
> > + "include_dirs": [
> > + str(srctree / "rust" / display_name),
> > + str(objtree / "rust")
> > + ],
> > + "exclude_dirs": [],
> > + }
> > }
> > + crates[-1] = crate

👍

>
> - Trevor

Thanks for the review!