Hi All,
We’ve been working on reviving the sel4-sys Rust crate and getting it usable again. Currently, we have it working correctly with RISC-V, we’re working on ARM (including aarch64) and X86. We’d like to contribute this work, but to have it landed we need to extend the test suite to include crate tests - especially the syscalls API.
During the build, the crate generates the syscalls functions accessible from Rust code based on seL4 config.
We use standard sel4test-tests suite to handle the tests:
* We build the crate as static library * Sel4test is built with `-DLibSel4FunctionAttributes=public` and while linking we overwrite the original symbols with the ones from a static library from the crate
This allows us to run the standard test suite against Rust syscall stubs.
For now the crate generates the syscall stubs with Rust flavor, so functions signatures between Rust and C do not match. To handle this we additionally generate a thin glue code adopting Rust signatures to the C ones.
We generate the Rust syscalls with a slightly modified version of the `syscall_stub_gen.py` script - we copied it into the crate’s codebase. Copying the code doesn’t seem to be the best idea - we’d need to maintain the code in both places - seL4 kernel and the crate.
We’d like to merge the Rust generator with the current set of tools - is this something you’d be willing to land in the kernel code? If not, how would you see the way forward here?
Thanks and best regards Karol