Re: [PATCH V17 0/7] Rust Support for powerpc
From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 15:38:46 EST
Hi Mukesh,
On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 05:59:14PM +0530, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 10:40:35PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 12:11:57 +0200
> > Link Mauve <linkmauve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I just tested those again in linux-next, with the Wii support series on
> > > top, but now the kernel fails to build due to ARCH_WARN_ASM and
> > > ARCH_WARN_REACHABLE not being defined on PowerPC:
> > > ```
> > > error: no rules expected `ARCH_WARN_ASM`
> > > --> /home/linkmauve/dev/linux/wii/rust/kernel/generated_arch_warn_asm.rs:1:28
> > > |
> > > 1 | ::kernel::concat_literals!(ARCH_WARN_ASM("{file}", "{line}", "{flags}", "{size}"))
> > > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no rules expected this token in macro call
> > > |
> > > ::: ../rust/kernel/lib.rs:279:1
> > > |
> > > 279 | macro_rules! concat_literals {
> > > | ---------------------------- when calling this macro
> > > |
> > > = note: while trying to match sequence start
> > >
> > > error: no rules expected `ARCH_WARN_REACHABLE`
> > > --> /home/linkmauve/dev/linux/wii/rust/kernel/generated_arch_reachable_asm.rs:1:28
> > > |
> > > 1 | ::kernel::concat_literals!(ARCH_WARN_REACHABLE)
> > > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no rules expected this token in macro call
> > > |
> > > ::: ../rust/kernel/lib.rs:279:1
> > > |
> > > 279 | macro_rules! concat_literals {
> > > | ---------------------------- when calling this macro
> > > |
> > > = note: while trying to match sequence start
> > >
> > > error: aborting due to 2 previous errors
> > > ```
> >
> > Looks like powerpc needs something like the followings:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h
> > index 0db48977c70c..8aba39e0cf26 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h
> > @@ -32,34 +32,38 @@
> > #endif /* verbose */
> >
> > #else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
> > -/* _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY expects args %0,%1,%2,%3 to be FILE, LINE, flags and
> > - sizeof(struct bug_entry), respectively */
> > #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
> > -#define _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY \
> > +#define _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY(file, line, flags) \
> > ".section __bug_table,\"aw\"\n" \
> > "2: .4byte 1b - .\n" \
> > - " .4byte %0 - .\n" \
> > - " .short %1, %2\n" \
> > - ".org 2b+%3\n" \
> > - ".previous\n"
> > + " .4byte " file " - .\n" \
> > + " .short " line ", " flags "\n"
> > #else
> > -#define _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY \
> > +#define _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY(file, line, flags) \
> > ".section __bug_table,\"aw\"\n" \
> > "2: .4byte 1b - .\n" \
> > - " .short %2\n" \
> > - ".org 2b+%3\n" \
> > - ".previous\n"
> > + " .short " flags "\n"
> > #endif
> >
> > #define BUG_ENTRY(cond_str, insn, flags, ...) \
> > __asm__ __volatile__( \
> > "1: " insn "\n" \
> > - _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY \
> > + _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY("%0", "%1", "%2") \
> > + ".org 2b+%3\n" \
> > + ".previous\n" \
> > : : "i" (WARN_CONDITION_STR(cond_str) __FILE__), "i" (__LINE__), \
> > "i" (flags), \
> > "i" (sizeof(struct bug_entry)), \
> > ##__VA_ARGS__)
> >
> > +#define ARCH_WARN_ASM(file, line, flags, size) \
> > + "1: twi 31, 0, 0\n" \
> > + _EMIT_BUG_ENTRY(file, line, flags) \
> > + ".org 2b+" size "\n" \
> > + ".previous\n"
> > +
> > +#define ARCH_WARN_REACHABLE
> > +
> > /*
> > * BUG_ON() and WARN_ON() do their best to cooperate with compile-time
> > * optimisations. However depending on the complexity of the condition
>
> Yeah, This makes sense.
>
> I'll work on this and send out a fix soon.
Did a fix for this ever materialize? I am still seeing the errors that
Link posted above in next-20260817.
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Cheers,
Nathan