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Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

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·June 27, 2025
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charcircuit

>The next article in this series will look at the design of the interface between the C and Rust code in the kernel, as well as the process of adding new bindings when necessary.

This is the actual useful one since so little of the kernel has Rust bindings. When I tried to implement a filesystem driver in rust I spent most of my time trying to write bindings instead of trying to write a filesystem.

Joel_Mckay

There are projects that make more sense:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03876

https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas

The reasons we encounter pattern issues forcing Linux into a polyglot is not a new phenomena:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Best regards =3