Re: [PATCH] rust: upgrade to Rust 1.77.0

[Alice Ryhl]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 1:27 AM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.76.0 to 1.77.0
> (i.e. the latest) [1].
>
> See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
> commit 3ed03f4da06e ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").
>
> # Unstable features
>
> The `offset_of` feature (single-field `offset_of!`) that we were using
> got stabilized in Rust 1.77.0 [3].
>
> Therefore, now the only unstable features allowed to be used outside the
> `kernel` crate is `new_uninit`, though other code to be upstreamed may
> increase the list.
>
> Please see [4] for details.
>
> # Required changes
>
> Rust 1.77.0 merged the `unused_tuple_struct_fields` lint into `dead_code`,
> thus upgrading it from `allow` to `warn` [5]. In turn, this makes `rustc`
> complain about the `ThisModule`'s pointer field being never read. Thus
> locally `allow` it for the moment, since we will have users later on
> (e.g. Binder needs a `as_ptr` method [6]).

Maybe you should just add the as_ptr method to ThisModule now? It will
silence the warning, and doesn't trigger a warning of its own since it
is pub.

> # Other changes
>
> Rust 1.77.0 introduces the `--check-cfg` feature [7], for which there
> is a Call for Testing going on [8]. We were requested to test it and
> we found it useful [9] -- we will likely enable it in the future.
>
> # `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

[...]

> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1770-2024-03-21 [1]
> Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118799 [3]
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [4]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118297 [5]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231101-rust-binder-v1-2-08ba9197f637@xxxxxxxxxx/#Z31rust:kernel:lib.rs [6]
> Link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/compiler-flags/check-cfg.html [7]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3013#issuecomment-1936648479 [8]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/82450#issuecomment-1947462977 [9]
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>