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Stabilization report

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

Functions marked with #[target_feature] are generally considered as unsafe functions: they are unsafe to call, cannot be assigned to safe function pointers, and don't implement the Fn* traits.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function #[target_feature(enable = "avx2")] fn avx2() {}

fn foo() { // Calling avx2 here is unsafe, as we must ensure // that AVX is available first. unsafe { avx2(); } }

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")] fn bar() { // Calling avx2 here is safe. avx2(); }

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in src/test/ui/rfcs/rfc-2396-target_feature-11/.

Edge cases

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? #73631

Closures defined inside functions marked with #[target_feature] inherit the target features of their parent function. They can still be assigned to safe function pointers and implement the appropriate Fn* traits.

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")] fn qux() { let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to avx2 is safe let f: fn() = my_closure; }

This means that in order to call a function with #[target_feature], you must show that the target-feature is available while the function executes and for as long as whatever may escape from that function lives.

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

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how does this interact with type alias impl trait

#![feature(target_feature_11, type_alias_impl_trait)]

type Foo = impl FnOnce() + Default;

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")] fn avx2() {}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")] fn qux() { let x: Foo = || avx2(); // currently errors cause the closure isn't Default. }

in #77688 it was decided against adding Default for function types and closures but that decision wasn't "we will never add that impl in the future" so I do want something apart from closures aren't Default from preventing the above example to work

@lcnr I think this is analogous to something like this?

unsafe fn unsf() {}

// This has some safety requirements... unsafe fn foo() { // ...which might be used in the closure here let x: Foo = || unsf(); }

I think calling x through Foo::default() would be unsound?

Or something like

fn bar() { // check that some invariants are upheld before doing some unsafe if !invariant_upheld { return; }

let x: Foo = || unsafe { unsf(); };

}

Wouldn't it be surprising to be able to call x through Default?

This was raised in #77688 (comment) but I couldn't find a proposed solution/workaround. If there is one, would it be applicable here as well?

While || unsafe { some_unsafe_fn() } is now a safe function pointer which we could leak this way, we still need unsafe somewhere to skip that boundary.

With target features the skip can be fully implicit (except for a #[target_feature(...)] attribute on the function constraining the opaque type).

Wouldn't it be surprising to be able to call x through Default?

as Foo would need an explicit Default bound, I think no ^^

I realized another issue with implementing Default for closures automatically. In the future, we may uncover that an opaque type implements Default using specialization, changing implicit impls of Default to change currently sound APIs to be unsound, making this a breaking change.

I guess I am fine with stabilizing this then ^^ while it seems like a final nail in the coffin of Default for closures and function definitions, there are already a few other nails.

👋 Hello, I'm writing this comment in this stabilization PR to notify you, the authors of this PR, that #100591 has been merged, which implemented a change in how features are stabilized.

Your PR has been filed before the change, so will likely require modifications in order to comply with the new rules. I recommend you to:

rebase the PR onto latest master, so that uses of the placeholder are possible.
replace the version numbers in the PR with the placeholder CURRENT_RUSTC_VERSION. For language changes, this means the version numbers in accepted.rs (example: 4caedba). For library changes, this means the since fields (example e576a9b).

That's it! The CURRENT_RUSTC_VERSION placeholder will, as part of the release process, be replaced with the version number that the PR merged for. It can be used anywhere in rust-lang/rust, not just accepted.rs and the since fields.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop by the zulip stream, or ping me directly in this PR's thread. Thanks! 👋

Done! Thank you very much for the heads-up @est31

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Stabilize #![feature(target_feature_11)]

Stabilization report

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

Functions marked with #[target_feature] are generally considered as unsafe functions: they are unsafe to call, cannot be assigned to safe function pointers, and don't implement the Fn* traits.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in src/test/ui/rfcs/rfc-2396-target_feature-11/.

Edge cases

rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

Documentation

Reference: rust-lang/reference#1181

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Stabilize #![feature(target_feature_11)]

Stabilization report

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

Functions marked with #[target_feature] are generally considered as unsafe functions: they are unsafe to call, cannot be assigned to safe function pointers, and don't implement the Fn* traits.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in src/test/ui/rfcs/rfc-2396-target_feature-11/.

Edge cases

rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

Documentation

Reference: rust-lang/reference#1181

cc tracking issue rust-lang#69098 r? @ghost

...Hm. I was not aware this had been FCP'd. We are aware that this makes downgrading feature levels a backwards incompatible change for targets, right?

@workingjubilee

this makes downgrading feature levels a backwards incompatible change for targets

You mean when proposals like this get accepted, the "default" set of default-enabled target features shrinks and some code calling #[target_feature] enabled attributes that were before part of the default set starts to fail compiling?

From testing the implementation, that seems to have been avoided by not having a default set of target features. Even if the target feature is enabled by default, code still must use unsafe. I wasn't involved much during implementation of this RFC so I can't comment on how intentional that was, but I vaguely remember a comment that they intentionally made the most restricted version, where there is also no implication between features that came after another, e.g. sse2 -> sse.

Take this code (playground):

#![feature(target_feature_11)]

#[target_feature(enable = "sse")] fn foo() {}

#[target_feature(enable = "sse")] fn bar() { foo(); }

fn main() { #[cfg(target_feature = "sse")] bar(); //~ERROR call to function with #[target_feature] is unsafe and requires unsafe function or block }

It will print the error as indicated. The test is written in a way that shows that sse is enabled by default (as is required on AMD 64 bit), and if it weren't, then it wouldn't error as the cfg would not expand. But it still errors even though sse is enabled.

Also note that downgrading of target requirements are breaking changes already, for example you could have code like:

extern { fn fancy_fn_that_uses_sse(); }

fn main() { #[cfg(target_feature = "sse")] unsafe { fancy_fn_that_uses_sse(); }

#[cfg(not(target_feature = "sse"))]
compile_error!("sorry but we only have an sse using implementation of this!");

}

It doesn't use target_feature_11 at all, but it would fail to compile upon a removal of sse from the default set of enabled target features. Edit: technically, increasing requirements is also a breaking change, which has been done over the years every once in a while.

In these scenarios I also think that compiler errors are preferable to runtime SIGILLs or worse.

One could think about extending the target_feature feature to also take the default-enabled target features into account, but that should be discussed in other threads, not here.

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Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

Functions marked with #[target_feature] are generally considered as unsafe functions: they are unsafe to call, cannot generally be assigned to safe function pointers, and don't implement the Fn* traits.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? rust-lang#73631

Closures defined inside functions marked with #[target_feature] inherit the target features of their parent function. They can still be assigned to safe function pointers and implement the appropriate Fn* traits.

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This means that in order to call a function with #[target_feature], you must guarantee that the target-feature is available while the function, any closures defined inside it, as well as any safe function pointers obtained from target-feature functions inside it, execute.

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

If you work in an environment where target features can be disabled, it is your responsibility to ensure that no code inside a target feature function (including inside a closure) runs after this (until the feature is enabled again).

Note: this has an effect on existing code, as nowadays closures do not inherit features from the enclosing function, and thus this strengthens a safety requirement. It was originally proposed in rust-lang#73631 to solve this by adding a new type of UB: “taking a target feature away from your process after having run code that uses that target feature is UB” . This was motivated by userspace code already assuming in a few places that CPU features never disappear from a program during execution (see i.e. https://github.com/rust-lang/stdarch/blob/2e29bdf90832931ea499755bb4ad7a6b0809295a/crates/std_detect/src/detect/arch/x86.rs); however, concerns were raised in the context of the Linux kernel; thus, we propose to relax that requirement to "causing the set of usable features to be reduced is unsafe; when doing so, the programmer is required to ensure that no closures or safe fn pointers that use removed features are still in scope".

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 rust-lang#111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features rust-lang#116558

The ABI of some types can change when compiling a function with different target features. This could have introduced unsoundness with target_feature_11, but recent fixes (rust-lang#133102, rust-lang#132173) either make those situations invalid or make the ABI no longer dependent on features. Thus, those issues should no longer occur.

Special functions

The #[target_feature] attribute is forbidden from a variety of special functions, such as main, current and future lang items (e.g. #[start], #[panic_handler]), safe default trait implementations and safe trait methods.

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

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Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 rust-lang#111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features rust-lang#116558

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

cc tracking issue rust-lang#69098 cc @workingjubilee cc @RalfJung r? @rust-lang/lang

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Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 rust-lang#111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features rust-lang#116558

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

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Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 rust-lang#111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features rust-lang#116558

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

cc tracking issue rust-lang#69098 cc @workingjubilee cc @RalfJung r? @rust-lang/lang

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Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang/rust#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang/rust#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang/rust#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? #73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Note: this has an effect on existing code, as nowadays closures do not inherit features from the enclosing function, and thus this strengthens a safety requirement. It was originally proposed in #73631 to solve this by adding a new type of UB: “taking a target feature away from your process after having run code that uses that target feature is UB” . This was motivated by userspace code already assuming in a few places that CPU features never disappear from a program during execution (see i.e. https://github.com/rust-lang/stdarch/blob/2e29bdf90832931ea499755bb4ad7a6b0809295a/crates/std_detect/src/detect/arch/x86.rs); however, concerns were raised in the context of the Linux kernel; thus, we propose to relax that requirement to "causing the set of usable features to be reduced is unsafe; when doing so, the programmer is required to ensure that no closures or safe fn pointers that use removed features are still in scope".

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 #111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features #116558

The ABI of some types can change when compiling a function with different target features. This could have introduced unsoundness with target_feature_11, but recent fixes (#133102, #132173) either make those situations invalid or make the ABI no longer dependent on features. Thus, those issues should no longer occur.

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

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Stabilize target_feature_11

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Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang/rust#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? #73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Note: this has an effect on existing code, as nowadays closures do not inherit features from the enclosing function, and thus this strengthens a safety requirement. It was originally proposed in #73631 to solve this by adding a new type of UB: “taking a target feature away from your process after having run code that uses that target feature is UB” . This was motivated by userspace code already assuming in a few places that CPU features never disappear from a program during execution (see i.e. https://github.com/rust-lang/stdarch/blob/2e29bdf90832931ea499755bb4ad7a6b0809295a/crates/std_detect/src/detect/arch/x86.rs); however, concerns were raised in the context of the Linux kernel; thus, we propose to relax that requirement to "causing the set of usable features to be reduced is unsafe; when doing so, the programmer is required to ensure that no closures or safe fn pointers that use removed features are still in scope".

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 #111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features #116558

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

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Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 rust-lang#111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features rust-lang#116558

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

cc tracking issue rust-lang#69098 cc @workingjubilee cc @RalfJung r? @rust-lang/lang

github-actions bot pushed a commit to tautschnig/verify-rust-std that referenced this pull request

Mar 11, 2025

Stabilize target_feature_11

Stabilization report

This is an updated version of rust-lang#116114, which is itself a redo of rust-lang#99767. Most of this commit and report were copied from those PRs. Thanks @LeSeulArtichaut and @calebzulawski!

Summary

Allows for safe functions to be marked with #[target_feature] attributes.

However, calling them from other #[target_feature] functions with a superset of features is safe.

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is unsafe, as we must ensure
    // that AVX is available first.
    unsafe {
        avx2();
    }
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() {
    // Calling `avx2` here is safe.
    avx2();
}

Moreover, once rust-lang#135504 is merged, they can be converted to safe function pointers in a context in which calling them is safe:

// Demonstration function
#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn avx2() {}

fn foo() -> fn() {
    // Converting `avx2` to fn() is a compilation error here.
    avx2
}

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn bar() -> fn() {
    // `avx2` coerces to fn() here
    avx2
}

See the section "Closures" below for justification of this behaviour.

Test cases

Tests for this feature can be found in tests/ui/target_feature/.

Edge cases

Closures

target-feature 1.1: should closures inherit target-feature annotations? rust-lang#73631

#[target_feature(enable = "avx2")]
fn qux() {
    let my_closure = || avx2(); // this call to `avx2` is safe
    let f: fn() = my_closure;
}

This is usually ensured because target features are assumed to never disappear, and:

on any unsafe call to a #[target_feature] function, presence of the target feature is guaranteed by the programmer through the safety requirements of the unsafe call.
on any safe call, this is guaranteed recursively by the caller.

Fix #[inline(always)] on closures with target feature 1.1 rust-lang#111836

Closures accept #[inline(always)], even within functions marked with #[target_feature]. Since these attributes conflict, #[inline(always)] wins out to maintain compatibility.

ABI concerns

The extern "C" ABI of SIMD vector types depends on target features rust-lang#116558

Special functions

This was not disallowed at the time of the first stabilization PR for target_features_11, and resulted in the following issues/PRs:

Documentation

Reference: Document the target_feature_11 feature reference#1181

cc tracking issue rust-lang#69098 cc @workingjubilee cc @RalfJung r? @rust-lang/lang

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