linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust: enable bindgen's `--enable-function-attribute-detection` flag

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Message-ID: <CANiq72k435QRB1ZGLTaf-yPgGZ4br5UZCrCDx3TWZxDavAbJgA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:13:33 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>, 
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, 
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: enable bindgen's `--enable-function-attribute-detection`
 flag

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 6:37 PM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> `bindgen` is able to detect certain function attributes and annotate
> functions correspondingly in its output for the Rust side, when the
> `--enable-function-attribute-detection` is passed.
>
> In particular, it is currently able to use `__must_check` in C
> (`#[must_use]` in Rust), which give us a bunch of annotations that are
> nice to have to prevent possible issues in Rust abstractions, e.g.:
>
>      extern "C" {
>     +    #[must_use]
>          pub fn kobject_add(
>              kobj: *mut kobject,
>              parent: *mut kobject,
>              fmt: *const core::ffi::c_char,
>              ...
>          ) -> core::ffi::c_int;
>      }
>
> Apparently, there are edge cases where this can make generation very slow,
> which is why it is behind a flag [1], but it does not seem to affect us
> in any major way at the moment.
>
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/1465 [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72=u5Nrz_NW3U3_VqywJkD8pECA07q2pFDd1wjtXOWdkAQ@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>

Applied to `rust-next` -- thanks everyone!

Cheers,
Miguel