kbuild: rust: remove now-unneeded `rusttest` custom sysroot handling

Since we dropped our custom `alloc` in commit 9d0441ba ("rust: alloc:
remove our fork of the `alloc` crate"), there is no need anymore to keep
the custom sysroot hack.

Thus delete it, which makes the target way simpler and faster too.

This also means we are not using Cargo for anything at the moment,
and that no download is required anymore, so update the main `Makefile`
and the documentation accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528163502.411600-1-ojeda@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst

@@ -171,20 +171,6 @@ can be installed manually::
 The standalone installers also come with ``clippy``.
 
 
-cargo
-*****
-
-``cargo`` is the Rust native build system. It is currently required to run
-the tests since it is used to build a custom standard library that contains
-the facilities provided by the custom ``alloc`` in the kernel. The tests can
-be run using the ``rusttest`` Make target.
-
-If ``rustup`` is being used, all the profiles already install the tool,
-thus nothing needs to be done.
-
-The standalone installers also come with ``cargo``.
-
-
 rustdoc
 *******
 

Documentation/rust/testing.rst

@@ -131,9 +131,8 @@ Additionally, there are the ``#[test]`` tests. These can be run using the
 
 	make LLVM=1 rusttest
 
-This requires the kernel ``.config`` and downloads external repositories. It
-runs the ``#[test]`` tests on the host (currently) and thus is fairly limited in
-what these tests can test.
+This requires the kernel ``.config``. It runs the ``#[test]`` tests on the host
+(currently) and thus is fairly limited in what these tests can test.
 
 The Kselftests
 --------------

Makefile

@@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ RUSTDOC		= rustdoc
 RUSTFMT		= rustfmt
 CLIPPY_DRIVER	= clippy-driver
 BINDGEN		= bindgen
-CARGO		= cargo
 PAHOLE		= pahole
 RESOLVE_BTFIDS	= $(objtree)/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids
 LEX		= flex
@@ -601,7 +600,7 @@ endif
 export RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP := 1
 
 export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL BASH HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE LD CC HOSTPKG_CONFIG
-export RUSTC RUSTDOC RUSTFMT RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY_QUIET RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY BINDGEN CARGO
+export RUSTC RUSTDOC RUSTFMT RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY_QUIET RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY BINDGEN
 export HOSTRUSTC KBUILD_HOSTRUSTFLAGS
 export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP READELF PAHOLE RESOLVE_BTFIDS LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL
 export PERL PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX

rust/Makefile

@@ -44,17 +44,10 @@ rustc_sysroot := $(shell MAKEFLAGS= $(RUSTC) $(rust_flags) --print sysroot)
 rustc_host_target := $(shell $(RUSTC) --version --verbose | grep -F 'host: ' | cut -d' ' -f2)
 RUST_LIB_SRC ?= $(rustc_sysroot)/lib/rustlib/src/rust/library
 
-ifeq ($(quiet),silent_)
-cargo_quiet=-q
+ifneq ($(quiet),)
 rust_test_quiet=-q
 rustdoc_test_quiet=--test-args -q
 rustdoc_test_kernel_quiet=>/dev/null
-else ifeq ($(quiet),quiet_)
-rust_test_quiet=-q
-rustdoc_test_quiet=--test-args -q
-rustdoc_test_kernel_quiet=>/dev/null
-else
-cargo_quiet=--verbose
 endif
 
 core-cfgs = \
@@ -135,22 +128,21 @@ quiet_cmd_rustc_test_library = RUSTC TL $<
 		@$(objtree)/include/generated/rustc_cfg $(rustc_target_flags) \
 		--crate-type $(if $(rustc_test_library_proc),proc-macro,rlib) \
 		--out-dir $(objtree)/$(obj)/test --cfg testlib \
-		--sysroot $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot \
 		-L$(objtree)/$(obj)/test \
 		--crate-name $(subst rusttest-,,$(subst rusttestlib-,,$@)) $<
 
-rusttestlib-build_error: $(src)/build_error.rs rusttest-prepare FORCE
+rusttestlib-build_error: $(src)/build_error.rs FORCE
 	+$(call if_changed,rustc_test_library)
 
 rusttestlib-macros: private rustc_target_flags = --extern proc_macro
 rusttestlib-macros: private rustc_test_library_proc = yes
-rusttestlib-macros: $(src)/macros/lib.rs rusttest-prepare FORCE
+rusttestlib-macros: $(src)/macros/lib.rs FORCE
 	+$(call if_changed,rustc_test_library)
 
-rusttestlib-bindings: $(src)/bindings/lib.rs rusttest-prepare FORCE
+rusttestlib-bindings: $(src)/bindings/lib.rs FORCE
 	+$(call if_changed,rustc_test_library)
 
-rusttestlib-uapi: $(src)/uapi/lib.rs rusttest-prepare FORCE
+rusttestlib-uapi: $(src)/uapi/lib.rs FORCE
 	+$(call if_changed,rustc_test_library)
 
 quiet_cmd_rustdoc_test = RUSTDOC T $<
@@ -159,7 +151,7 @@ quiet_cmd_rustdoc_test = RUSTDOC T $<
 	$(RUSTDOC) --test $(rust_common_flags) \
 		@$(objtree)/include/generated/rustc_cfg \
 		$(rustc_target_flags) $(rustdoc_test_target_flags) \
-		--sysroot $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot $(rustdoc_test_quiet) \
+		$(rustdoc_test_quiet) \
 		-L$(objtree)/$(obj)/test --output $(rustdoc_output) \
 		--crate-name $(subst rusttest-,,$@) $<
 
@@ -192,7 +184,6 @@ quiet_cmd_rustc_test = RUSTC T  $<
 	$(RUSTC) --test $(rust_common_flags) \
 		@$(objtree)/include/generated/rustc_cfg \
 		$(rustc_target_flags) --out-dir $(objtree)/$(obj)/test \
-		--sysroot $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot \
 		-L$(objtree)/$(obj)/test \
 		--crate-name $(subst rusttest-,,$@) $<; \
 	$(objtree)/$(obj)/test/$(subst rusttest-,,$@) $(rust_test_quiet) \
@@ -200,60 +191,15 @@ quiet_cmd_rustc_test = RUSTC T  $<
 
 rusttest: rusttest-macros rusttest-kernel
 
-# This prepares a custom sysroot with our custom `alloc` instead of
-# the standard one.
-#
-# This requires several hacks:
-#   - Unlike `core` and `alloc`, `std` depends on more than a dozen crates,
-#     including third-party crates that need to be downloaded, plus custom
-#     `build.rs` steps. Thus hardcoding things here is not maintainable.
-#   - `cargo` knows how to build the standard library, but it is an unstable
-#     feature so far (`-Zbuild-std`).
-#   - `cargo` only considers the use case of building the standard library
-#     to use it in a given package. Thus we need to create a dummy package
-#     and pick the generated libraries from there.
-#   - The usual ways of modifying the dependency graph in `cargo` do not seem
-#     to apply for the `-Zbuild-std` steps, thus we have to mislead it
-#     by modifying the sources in the sysroot.
-#   - To avoid messing with the user's Rust installation, we create a clone
-#     of the sysroot. However, `cargo` ignores `RUSTFLAGS` in the `-Zbuild-std`
-#     steps, thus we use a wrapper binary passed via `RUSTC` to pass the flag.
-#
-# In the future, we hope to avoid the whole ordeal by either:
-#   - Making the `test` crate not depend on `std` (either improving upstream
-#     or having our own custom crate).
-#   - Making the tests run in kernel space (requires the previous point).
-#   - Making `std` and friends be more like a "normal" crate, so that
-#     `-Zbuild-std` and related hacks are not needed.
-quiet_cmd_rustsysroot = RUSTSYSROOT
-      cmd_rustsysroot = \
-	rm -rf $(objtree)/$(obj)/test; \
-	mkdir -p $(objtree)/$(obj)/test; \
-	cp -a $(rustc_sysroot) $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot; \
-	echo '\#!/bin/sh' > $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/rustc_sysroot; \
-	echo "$(RUSTC) --sysroot=$(abspath $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot) \"\$$@\"" \
-		>> $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/rustc_sysroot; \
-	chmod u+x $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/rustc_sysroot; \
-	$(CARGO) -q new $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/dummy; \
-	RUSTC=$(objtree)/$(obj)/test/rustc_sysroot $(CARGO) $(cargo_quiet) \
-		test -Zbuild-std --target $(rustc_host_target) \
-		--manifest-path $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/dummy/Cargo.toml; \
-	rm $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot/lib/rustlib/$(rustc_host_target)/lib/*; \
-	cp $(objtree)/$(obj)/test/dummy/target/$(rustc_host_target)/debug/deps/* \
-		$(objtree)/$(obj)/test/sysroot/lib/rustlib/$(rustc_host_target)/lib
-
-rusttest-prepare: FORCE
-	+$(call if_changed,rustsysroot)
-
 rusttest-macros: private rustc_target_flags = --extern proc_macro
 rusttest-macros: private rustdoc_test_target_flags = --crate-type proc-macro
-rusttest-macros: $(src)/macros/lib.rs rusttest-prepare FORCE
+rusttest-macros: $(src)/macros/lib.rs FORCE
 	+$(call if_changed,rustc_test)
 	+$(call if_changed,rustdoc_test)
 
 rusttest-kernel: private rustc_target_flags = --extern alloc \
     --extern build_error --extern macros --extern bindings --extern uapi
-rusttest-kernel: $(src)/kernel/lib.rs rusttest-prepare \
+rusttest-kernel: $(src)/kernel/lib.rs \
     rusttestlib-build_error rusttestlib-macros rusttestlib-bindings \
     rusttestlib-uapi FORCE
 	+$(call if_changed,rustc_test)