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<title>linux/rust/kernel/sync, branch v6.13</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'rust-6.13' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T22:00:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T22:00:26Z</published>
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Pull rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Toolchain and infrastructure:

   - Enable a series of lints, including safety-related ones, e.g. the
     compiler will now warn about missing safety comments, as well as
     unnecessary ones. How safety documentation is organized is a
     frequent source of review comments, thus having the compiler guide
     new developers on where they are expected (and where not) is very
     nice.

   - Start using '#[expect]': an interesting feature in Rust (stabilized
     in 1.81.0) that makes the compiler warn if an expected warning was
     _not_ emitted. This is useful to avoid forgetting cleaning up
     locally ignored diagnostics ('#[allow]'s).

   - Introduce '.clippy.toml' configuration file for Clippy, the Rust
     linter, which will allow us to tweak its behaviour. For instance,
     our first use cases are declaring a disallowed macro and, more
     importantly, enabling the checking of private items.

   - Lints-related fixes and cleanups related to the items above.

   - Migrate from 'receiver_trait' to 'arbitrary_self_types': to get the
     kernel into stable Rust, one of the major pieces of the puzzle is
     the support to write custom types that can be used as 'self', i.e.
     as receivers, since the kernel needs to write types such as 'Arc'
     that common userspace Rust would not. 'arbitrary_self_types' has
     been accepted to become stable, and this is one of the steps
     required to get there.

   - Remove usage of the 'new_uninit' unstable feature.

   - Use custom C FFI types. Includes a new 'ffi' crate to contain our
     custom mapping, instead of using the standard library 'core::ffi'
     one. The actual remapping will be introduced in a later cycle.

   - Map '__kernel_{size_t,ssize_t,ptrdiff_t}' to 'usize'/'isize'
     instead of 32/64-bit integers.

   - Fix 'size_t' in bindgen generated prototypes of C builtins.

   - Warn on bindgen &lt; 0.69.5 and libclang &gt;= 19.1 due to a double issue
     in the projects, which we managed to trigger with the upcoming
     tracepoint support. It includes a build test since some
     distributions backported the fix (e.g. Debian -- thanks!). All
     major distributions we list should be now OK except Ubuntu non-LTS.

  'macros' crate:

   - Adapt the build system to be able run the doctests there too; and
     clean up and enable the corresponding doctests.

  'kernel' crate:

   - Add 'alloc' module with generic kernel allocator support and remove
     the dependency on the Rust standard library 'alloc' and the
     extension traits we used to provide fallible methods with flags.

     Add the 'Allocator' trait and its implementations '{K,V,KV}malloc'.
     Add the 'Box' type (a heap allocation for a single value of type
     'T' that is also generic over an allocator and considers the
     kernel's GFP flags) and its shorthand aliases '{K,V,KV}Box'. Add
     'ArrayLayout' type. Add 'Vec' (a contiguous growable array type)
     and its shorthand aliases '{K,V,KV}Vec', including iterator
     support.

     For instance, now we may write code such as:

         let mut v = KVec::new();
         v.push(1, GFP_KERNEL)?;
         assert_eq!(&amp;v, &amp;[1]);

     Treewide, move as well old users to these new types.

   - 'sync' module: add global lock support, including the
     'GlobalLockBackend' trait; the 'Global{Lock,Guard,LockedBy}' types
     and the 'global_lock!' macro. Add the 'Lock::try_lock' method.

   - 'error' module: optimize 'Error' type to use 'NonZeroI32' and make
     conversion functions public.

   - 'page' module: add 'page_align' function.

   - Add 'transmute' module with the existing 'FromBytes' and 'AsBytes'
     traits.

   - 'block::mq::request' module: improve rendered documentation.

   - 'types' module: extend 'Opaque' type documentation and add simple
     examples for the 'Either' types.

  drm/panic:

   - Clean up a series of Clippy warnings.

  Documentation:

   - Add coding guidelines for lints and the '#[expect]' feature.

   - Add Ubuntu to the list of distributions in the Quick Start guide.

  MAINTAINERS:

   - Add Danilo Krummrich as maintainer of the new 'alloc' module.

  And a few other small cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'rust-6.13' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (82 commits)
  rust: alloc: Fix `ArrayLayout` allocations
  docs: rust: remove spurious item in `expect` list
  rust: allow `clippy::needless_lifetimes`
  rust: warn on bindgen &lt; 0.69.5 and libclang &gt;= 19.1
  rust: use custom FFI integer types
  rust: map `__kernel_size_t` and friends also to usize/isize
  rust: fix size_t in bindgen prototypes of C builtins
  rust: sync: add global lock support
  rust: macros: enable the rest of the tests
  rust: macros: enable paste! use from macro_rules!
  rust: enable macros::module! tests
  rust: kbuild: expand rusttest target for macros
  rust: types: extend `Opaque` documentation
  rust: block: fix formatting of `kernel::block::mq::request` module
  rust: macros: fix documentation of the paste! macro
  rust: kernel: fix THIS_MODULE header path in ThisModule doc comment
  rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE_ALIGN
  rust: helpers: remove unnecessary header includes
  rust: exports: improve grammar in commentary
  drm/panic: allow verbose version check
  ...
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<entry>
<title>rust: use custom FFI integer types</title>
<updated>2024-11-10T22:58:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gary Guo</name>
<email>gary@garyguo.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-13T21:29:23Z</published>
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Currently FFI integer types are defined in libcore. This commit creates
the `ffi` crate and asks bindgen to use that crate for FFI integer types
instead of `core::ffi`.

This commit is preparatory and no type changes are made in this commit
yet.

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913213041.395655-4-gary@garyguo.net
[ Added `rustdoc`, `rusttest` and KUnit tests support. Rebased on top of
  `rust-next` (e.g. migrated more `core::ffi` cases). Reworded crate
  docs slightly and formatted. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>rust: sync: add global lock support</title>
<updated>2024-11-10T21:56:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T13:23:18Z</published>
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Add support for creating global variables that are wrapped in a mutex or
spinlock.

The implementation here is intended to replace the global mutex
workaround found in the Rust Binder RFC [1]. In both cases, the global
lock must be initialized before first use. The macro is unsafe to use
for the same reason.

The separate initialization step is required because it is tricky to
access the value of __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED from Rust. Doing so will
require changes to the C side. That change will happen as a follow-up to
this patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231101-rust-binder-v1-2-08ba9197f637@google.com/#Z31drivers:android:context.rs [1]
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023-static-mutex-v6-1-d7efdadcc84f@google.com
[ Simplified a few intra-doc links. Formatted a few comments. Reworded
  title. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: treewide: switch to the kernel `Vec` type</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T21:10:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-04T15:41:23Z</published>
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Now that we got the kernel `Vec` in place, convert all existing `Vec`
users to make use of it.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-20-dakr@kernel.org
[ Converted `kasan_test_rust.rs` too, as discussed. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: treewide: switch to our kernel `Box` type</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T20:56:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-04T15:41:16Z</published>
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Now that we got the kernel `Box` type in place, convert all existing
`Box` users to make use of it.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-13-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>rust: lock: add trylock method support for lock backend</title>
<updated>2024-10-09T22:33:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Filipe Xavier</name>
<email>felipe_life@live.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-26T20:50:37Z</published>
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Add a non-blocking trylock method to lock backend interface, mutex and
spinlock implementations. It includes a C helper for spin_trylock.

Rust Binder will use this method together with the new shrinker
abstractions to avoid deadlocks in the memory shrinker.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240912-shrinker-v1-1-18b7f1253553@google.com
Signed-off-by: Filipe Xavier &lt;felipe_life@live.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fiona Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/BL0PR02MB4914579914884B5D7473B3D6E96A2@BL0PR02MB4914.namprd02.prod.outlook.com
[ Slightly reworded. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge patch series "File abstractions needed by Rust Binder"</title>
<updated>2024-10-08T12:32:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-30T11:02:35Z</published>
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Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt; says:

This patchset contains the file abstractions needed by the Rust
implementation of the Binder driver.

Please see the Rust Binder RFC for usage examples:
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231101-rust-binder-v1-0-08ba9197f637@google.com

Users of "rust: types: add `NotThreadSafe`":
	[PATCH 5/9] rust: file: add `FileDescriptorReservation`

Users of "rust: task: add `Task::current_raw`":
	[PATCH 7/9] rust: file: add `Kuid` wrapper
	[PATCH 8/9] rust: file: add `DeferredFdCloser`

Users of "rust: file: add Rust abstraction for `struct file`":
	[PATCH RFC 02/20] rust_binder: add binderfs support to Rust binder
	[PATCH RFC 03/20] rust_binder: add threading support

Users of "rust: cred: add Rust abstraction for `struct cred`":
	[PATCH RFC 05/20] rust_binder: add nodes and context managers
	[PATCH RFC 06/20] rust_binder: add oneway transactions
	[PATCH RFC 11/20] rust_binder: send nodes in transaction
	[PATCH RFC 13/20] rust_binder: add BINDER_TYPE_FD support

Users of "rust: security: add abstraction for secctx":
	[PATCH RFC 06/20] rust_binder: add oneway transactions

Users of "rust: file: add `FileDescriptorReservation`":
	[PATCH RFC 13/20] rust_binder: add BINDER_TYPE_FD support
	[PATCH RFC 14/20] rust_binder: add BINDER_TYPE_FDA support

Users of "rust: file: add `Kuid` wrapper":
	[PATCH RFC 05/20] rust_binder: add nodes and context managers
	[PATCH RFC 06/20] rust_binder: add oneway transactions

Users of "rust: file: add abstraction for `poll_table`":
	[PATCH RFC 07/20] rust_binder: add epoll support

This patchset has some uses of read_volatile in place of READ_ONCE.
Please see the following rfc for context on this:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231025195339.1431894-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com/

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-0-88484f7a3dcf@google.com:
  rust: file: add abstraction for `poll_table`
  rust: file: add `Kuid` wrapper
  rust: file: add `FileDescriptorReservation`
  rust: security: add abstraction for secctx
  rust: cred: add Rust abstraction for `struct cred`
  rust: file: add Rust abstraction for `struct file`
  rust: task: add `Task::current_raw`
  rust: types: add `NotThreadSafe`

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-0-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: enable arbitrary_self_types and remove `Receiver`</title>
<updated>2024-10-07T19:39:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gary Guo</name>
<email>gary@garyguo.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-15T13:26:31Z</published>
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The term "receiver" means that a type can be used as the type of `self`,
and thus enables method call syntax `foo.bar()` instead of
`Foo::bar(foo)`. Stable Rust as of today (1.81) enables a limited
selection of types (primitives and types in std, e.g. `Box` and `Arc`)
to be used as receivers, while custom types cannot.

We want the kernel `Arc` type to have the same functionality as the Rust
std `Arc`, so we use the `Receiver` trait (gated behind `receiver_trait`
unstable feature) to gain the functionality.

The `arbitrary_self_types` RFC [1] (tracking issue [2]) is accepted and
it will allow all types that implement a new `Receiver` trait (different
from today's unstable trait) to be used as receivers. This trait will be
automatically implemented for all `Deref` types, which include our `Arc`
type, so we no longer have to opt-in to be used as receiver. To prepare
us for the change, remove the `Receiver` implementation and the
associated feature. To still allow `Arc` and others to be used as method
receivers, turn on `arbitrary_self_types` feature instead.

This feature gate is introduced in 1.23.0. It used to enable both
`Deref` types and raw pointer types to be used as receivers, but the
latter is now split into a different feature gate in Rust 1.83 nightly.
We do not need receivers on raw pointers so this change would not affect
us and usage of `arbitrary_self_types` feature would work for all Rust
versions that we support (&gt;=1.78).

Cc: Adrian Taylor &lt;ade@hohum.me.uk&gt;
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3519 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44874 [2]
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915132734.1653004-1-gary@garyguo.net
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>rust: provide proper code documentation titles</title>
<updated>2024-10-07T19:39:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-04T20:43:42Z</published>
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Rust 1.82.0's Clippy is introducing [1][2] a new warn-by-default lint,
`too_long_first_doc_paragraph` [3], which is intended to catch titles
of code documentation items that are too long (likely because no title
was provided and the item documentation starts with a paragraph).

This lint does not currently trigger anywhere, but it does detect a couple
cases if checking for private items gets enabled (which we will do in
the next commit):

    error: first doc comment paragraph is too long
      --&gt; rust/kernel/init/__internal.rs:18:1
       |
    18 | / /// This is the module-internal type implementing `PinInit` and `Init`. It is unsafe to create this
    19 | | /// type, since the closure needs to fulfill the same safety requirement as the
    20 | | /// `__pinned_init`/`__init` functions.
       | |_
       |
       = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#too_long_first_doc_paragraph
       = note: `-D clippy::too-long-first-doc-paragraph` implied by `-D warnings`
       = help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(clippy::too_long_first_doc_paragraph)]`

    error: first doc comment paragraph is too long
     --&gt; rust/kernel/sync/arc/std_vendor.rs:3:1
      |
    3 | / //! The contents of this file come from the Rust standard library, hosted in
    4 | | //! the &lt;https://github.com/rust-lang/rust&gt; repository, licensed under
    5 | | //! "Apache-2.0 OR MIT" and adapted for kernel use. For copyright details,
    6 | | //! see &lt;https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/COPYRIGHT&gt;.
      | |_
      |
      = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#too_long_first_doc_paragraph

Thus clean those two instances.

In addition, since we have a second `std_vendor.rs` file with a similar
header, do the same there too (even if that one does not trigger the lint,
because it is `doc(hidden)`).

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129531 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/12993 [2]
Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#/too_long_first_doc_paragraph [3]
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904204347.168520-15-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: sync: remove unneeded `#[allow(clippy::non_send_fields_in_send_ty)]`</title>
<updated>2024-10-07T19:39:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-04T20:43:38Z</published>
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Rust 1.58.0 (before Rust was merged into the kernel) made Clippy's
`non_send_fields_in_send_ty` lint part of the `suspicious` lint group for
a brief window of time [1] until the minor version 1.58.1 got released
a week after, where the lint was moved back to `nursery`.

By that time, we had already upgraded to that Rust version, and thus we
had `allow`ed the lint here for `CondVar`.

Nowadays, Clippy's `non_send_fields_in_send_ty` would still trigger here
if it were enabled.

Moreover, if enabled, `Lock&lt;T, B&gt;` and `Task` would also require an
`allow`. Therefore, it does not seem like someone is actually enabling it
(in, e.g., a custom flags build).

Finally, the lint does not appear to have had major improvements since
then [2].

Thus remove the `allow` since it is unneeded.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#version-1581-2022-01-20 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/8045 [2]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904204347.168520-11-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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