Description
Rust is a systems programming language that is making great strides in becoming the next big one in the domain.
Rust for Linux aims to bring it into the kernel since it has a key property that makes it very interesting to consider as the second language in the kernel: it guarantees no undefined behavior takes place (as long as unsafe code is sound). This includes no use-after-free mistakes, no double frees, no data races, etc.
This microconference intends to cover talks and discussions on both Rust for Linux as well as other non-kernel Rust topics.
Possible Rust for Linux topics:
- Bringing Rust into the kernel (e.g. status update, next steps...).
- Use cases for Rust around the kernel (e.g. drivers, subsystems...).
- Integration with kernel systems and infrastructure (e.g. wrapping existing subsystems safely, build system, documentation, testing, maintenance...).
Possible Rust topics:
- Language and standard library (e.g. upcoming features, memory model...).
- Compilers and codegen (e.g. rustc improvements, LLVM and Rust, rustc_codegen_gcc, gccrs...).
- Other tooling and new ideas (Cargo, Miri, Clippy, Compiler Explorer, Coccinelle for Rust...).
- Educational material.
- Any other Rust topic within the Linux ecosystem.
Toolchain support for the Rust language is a question central to adopting Rust in the Linux kernel. So far, the LLVM-based rustc compiler has been the only option for Rust language compilers. GCC Rust is a work-in-progress project to add a fully-featured front-end for Rust to the GNU toolchain. As a part of GCC, this compiler benefits from the common GCC flags, optimizations, and back-end...
Rust is a systems programming language with desirable properties in the context of the Linux kernel, such as no undefined behavior in its safe subset (when unsafe code is sound), including memory safety and the absence of data races.
Rust for Linux is a project that aims to bring Rust support to the Linux kernel as a first-class language. This means providing support for writing kernel...
Rust for Linux aims to bring in Rust as a second programming for the Linux Kernel. The Rust for Linux project is making good progress towards being included in upstream Linux sources.
In this talk we discuss status of the Rust NVMe driver. The Rust NVMe driver is interesting as a reference implementation of a high performance driver because NVMe already has a mature and widely deployed...
We are very excited (and impatient) to have Rust supported in the Kernel. In fact we are so impatient we decided to develop a means of getting Rust in the Kernel today, using eBPF!
Aya is an eBPF library built with a focus on operability and developer experience. It allows for both user-land and kernel-land programs to be written in Rust - and even allows for sharing of code between the...
