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3K Lines Of New Rust Infrastructure Code Head Into Linux 6.13


Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel.

Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel. The Rust updates for Linux 6.13 also include a new "FFI" crate to contain their custom C FFI type mappings, a new "alloc" module with generic kernel allocator support within their kernel crate, global lock support in the sync module, and various documentation updates. Separately, Christian Brauner sent in the this pull request today with the Rust language bindings for the PID namespaces.

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