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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Non-trivial C macros cannot be used in Rust. Similarly, inlined C functions
+ * cannot be called either. This file explicitly creates functions ("helpers")
+ * that wrap those so that they can be called from Rust.
+ *
+ * Even though Rust kernel modules should never use directly the bindings, some
+ * of these helpers need to be exported because Rust generics and inlined
+ * functions may not get their code generated in the crate where they are
+ * defined. Other helpers, called from non-inline functions, may not be
+ * exported, in principle. However, in general, the Rust compiler does not
+ * guarantee codegen will be performed for a non-inline function either.
+ * Therefore, this file exports all the helpers. In the future, this may be
+ * revisited to reduce the number of exports after the compiler is informed
+ * about the places codegen is required.
+ *
+ * All symbols are exported as GPL-only to guarantee no GPL-only feature is
+ * accidentally exposed.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/build_bug.h>
+
+__noreturn void rust_helper_BUG(void)
+{
+	BUG();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_BUG);
+
+/*
+ * We use `bindgen`'s `--size_t-is-usize` option to bind the C `size_t` type
+ * as the Rust `usize` type, so we can use it in contexts where Rust
+ * expects a `usize` like slice (array) indices. `usize` is defined to be
+ * the same as C's `uintptr_t` type (can hold any pointer) but not
+ * necessarily the same as `size_t` (can hold the size of any single
+ * object). Most modern platforms use the same concrete integer type for
+ * both of them, but in case we find ourselves on a platform where
+ * that's not true, fail early instead of risking ABI or
+ * integer-overflow issues.
+ *
+ * If your platform fails this assertion, it means that you are in
+ * danger of integer-overflow bugs (even if you attempt to remove
+ * `--size_t-is-usize`). It may be easiest to change the kernel ABI on
+ * your platform such that `size_t` matches `uintptr_t` (i.e., to increase
+ * `size_t`, because `uintptr_t` has to be at least as big as `size_t`).
+ */
+static_assert(
+	sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(uintptr_t) &&
+	__alignof__(size_t) == __alignof__(uintptr_t),
+	"Rust code expects C `size_t` to match Rust `usize`"
+);