kbuild: rust: keep Rust objects out of Clang LTO with inline helpersgrafted

Under `CONFIG_LTO_CLANG` + `CONFIG_RUST_INLINE_HELPERS`, one may hit
`objtool` errors such as:

    vmlinux.o: error: objtool: _R..._3Gsp4boot+0xd6a:
    can't find jump dest instruction at .text._R..._3Gsp4boot+0x1dfd

The reason is that in such builds, the Clang invocation that compiles
the combined Rust plus helpers bitcode emits LLVM bitcode (again) --
the final code generation happens in the linker's LTO step, which the
`-mllvm` trap options passed to Clang do not reach.

This, in turn, means that unreachable traps are missing, and the
impossible paths do not merely fallthrough to the next symbol, but past
the end of their own section, since LTO builds place each function in
its own section.

Thus filter `CC_FLAGS_LTO` out of the Clang invocation, so that it always
emits machine code directly, with the traps in place.

Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3a2486cc1da5 ("kbuild: rust: provide an option to inline C helpers into Rust")
Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260816133233.197500-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 143 insertions, 0 deletions

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================
+Softnet Driver Issues
+=====================
+
+Probing guidelines
+==================
+
+Address validation
+------------------
+
+Any hardware layer address you obtain for your device should
+be verified.  For example, for ethernet check it with
+linux/etherdevice.h:is_valid_ether_addr()
+
+Close/stop guidelines
+=====================
+
+Quiescence
+----------
+
+After the ndo_stop routine has been called, the hardware must
+not receive or transmit any data.  All in flight packets must
+be aborted. If necessary, poll or wait for completion of
+any reset commands.
+
+Auto-close
+----------
+
+The ndo_stop routine will be called by unregister_netdevice
+if device is still UP.
+
+Transmit path guidelines
+========================
+
+Stop queues in advance
+----------------------
+
+The ndo_start_xmit method must not return NETDEV_TX_BUSY under
+any normal circumstances.  It is considered a hard error unless
+there is no way your device can tell ahead of time when its
+transmit function will become busy.
+
+Instead it must maintain the queue properly.  For example,
+for a driver implementing scatter-gather this means:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	static u32 drv_tx_avail(struct drv_ring *dr)
+	{
+		u32 used = READ_ONCE(dr->prod) - READ_ONCE(dr->cons);
+
+		return dr->tx_ring_size - (used & dr->tx_ring_mask);
+	}
+
+	static netdev_tx_t drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					       struct net_device *dev)
+	{
+		struct drv *dp = netdev_priv(dev);
+		struct netdev_queue *txq;
+		struct drv_ring *dr;
+		int idx;
+
+		idx = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
+		dr = dp->tx_rings[idx];
+		txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, idx);
+
+		//...
+		/* This should be a very rare race - log it. */
+		if (drv_tx_avail(dr) <= skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags + 1) {
+			netif_tx_stop_queue(txq);
+			netdev_warn(dev, "Tx Ring full when queue awake!\n");
+			return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+		}
+
+		//... queue packet to card ...
+
+		netdev_tx_sent_queue(txq, skb->len);
+
+		//... update tx producer index using WRITE_ONCE() ...
+
+		if (!netif_txq_maybe_stop(txq, drv_tx_avail(dr),
+					  MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1, 2 * MAX_SKB_FRAGS))
+			dr->stats.stopped++;
+
+		//...
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+	}
+
+And then at the end of your TX reclamation event handling:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	//... update tx consumer index using WRITE_ONCE() ...
+
+	netif_txq_completed_wake(txq, cmpl_pkts, cmpl_bytes,
+				 drv_tx_avail(dr), 2 * MAX_SKB_FRAGS);
+
+Lockless queue stop / wake helper macros
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/netdev_queues.h
+   :doc: Lockless queue stopping / waking helpers.
+
+The standard macros like netif_txq_maybe_stop(), netif_txq_try_stop() etc.
+are well tested, prefer them over local synchronization schemes.
+
+No exclusive ownership
+----------------------
+
+An ndo_start_xmit method must not modify the shared parts of a
+cloned SKB.
+
+Timely completions
+------------------
+
+Do not forget that once you return NETDEV_TX_OK from your
+ndo_start_xmit method, it is your driver's responsibility to free
+up the SKB and in some finite amount of time.
+
+For example, this means that it is not allowed for your TX
+mitigation scheme to let TX packets "hang out" in the TX
+ring unreclaimed forever if no new TX packets are sent.
+This error can deadlock sockets waiting for send buffer room
+to be freed up.
+
+If you return NETDEV_TX_BUSY from the ndo_start_xmit method, you
+must not keep any reference to that SKB and you must not attempt
+to free it up.
+
+Error message reporting
+=======================
+
+A number of driver configuration interfaces pass a Netlink extended ACK
+(``extack``) object to the driver (either directly as an argument or
+as a member of a parameter struct). The drivers should try to report
+most errors via the ``extack`` object. System level exceptions,
+indicating that system or device is misbehaving or is in bad state,
+should continue to be reported to system logs.
+
+Messages should be passed **either** via ``extack`` **or** to system logs.
+Drivers should not try to report the same information to both.