Gary Guo d2f3092279 rust: pin_init: internal: use loop {} to produce never value ...

In the `init!`/`pin_init!` macros, we rely on a trick that assigns never
(`!`) values to all mentioned fields in never-executed code to let the
compiler check that all fields have been initialized.

Currently we use `::core::panic!()` to produce this value, but before Rust
1.91.0, it creates outlined `panic_cold_explicit` functions which do not
get removed by the optimizer, thus leaving dead code behind in the binary.
This has been fixed by [1], which lands in Rust 1.91.0+, higher than the
kernel minimum version 1.85.0.

This causes ~200 dead `panic_cold_explicit` instances being included in the
binary, with ~90 of them from nova-core's usage of pin-init.

Work around the issue by using `loop {}` which creates the never value
without macro expansion or function call at all. All instances of
`panic_cold_explicit` outside libcore are removed by this change in my
kernel build.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/145304 [1]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508152950.833635-1-gary@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

2026-05-29 21:58:36 +01:00

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rust: pin_init: internal: use loop {} to produce never value

2026-05-29 21:58:36 +01:00