user/sven/linux.git/rust/kernel/alloc.rs, branch v6.17

rust: alloc: add missing Markdown code spans

2025-05-25T20:58:35Z

Add missing Markdown code spans. This was found using the Clippy `doc_markdown` lint, which we may want to enable. Fixes: b6a006e21b82 ("rust: alloc: introduce allocation flags") Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250324210359.1199574-4-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: use derive(CoercePointee) on rustc >= 1.84.0

2025-01-13T22:45:30Z

The `kernel` crate relies on both `coerce_unsized` and `dispatch_from_dyn` unstable features. Alice Ryhl has proposed [1] the introduction of the unstable macro `SmartPointer` to reduce such dependence, along with a RFC patch [2]. Since Rust 1.81.0 this macro, later renamed to `CoercePointee` in Rust 1.84.0 [3], has been fully implemented with the naming discussion resolved. This feature is now on track to stabilization in the language. In order to do so, we shall start using this macro in the `kernel` crate to prove the functionality and utility of the macro as the justification of its stabilization. This patch makes this switch in such a way that the crate remains backward compatible with older Rust compiler versions, via the new Kconfig option `RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE`. A minimal demonstration example is added to the `samples/rust/rust_print_main.rs` module. Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3621-derive-smart-pointer.html [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240823-derive-smart-pointer-v1-1-53769cd37239@google.com/ [2] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/131284 [3] Signed-off-by: Xiangfei Ding Reviewed-by: Fiona Behrens Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241203205050.679106-2-dingxiangfei2009@gmail.com [ Fixed version to 1.84. Renamed option to `RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE` to match `CC_HAS_*` ones. Moved up new config option, closer to the `CC_HAS_*` ones. Simplified Kconfig line. Fixed typos and slightly reworded example and commit. Added Link to PR. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: update module comment of alloc.rs

2024-10-15T21:10:32Z

Before we remove Rust's alloc crate, rewrite the module comment in alloc.rs to avoid a rustdoc warning. Besides that, the module comment in alloc.rs isn't correct anymore, we're no longer extending Rust's alloc crate. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-28-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: implement `Cmalloc` in module allocator_test

2024-10-15T21:10:32Z

So far the kernel's `Box` and `Vec` types can't be used by userspace test cases, since all users of those types (e.g. `CString`) use kernel allocators for instantiation. In order to allow userspace test cases to make use of such types as well, implement the `Cmalloc` allocator within the allocator_test module and type alias all kernel allocators to `Cmalloc`. The `Cmalloc` allocator uses libc's `realloc()` function as allocator backend. Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-26-dakr@kernel.org [ Removed the temporary `allow(dead_code)` as discussed in the list and fixed typo, added backticks. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: implement `contains` for `Flags`

2024-10-15T21:10:32Z

Provide a simple helper function to check whether given flags do contain one or multiple other flags. This is used by a subsequent patch implementing the Cmalloc `Allocator` to check for __GFP_ZERO. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-25-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: remove `VecExt` extension

2024-10-15T21:10:32Z

Now that all existing `Vec` users were moved to the kernel `Vec` type, remove the `VecExt` extension. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-21-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: implement `IntoIterator` for `Vec`

2024-10-15T21:10:32Z

Implement `IntoIterator` for `Vec`, `Vec`'s `IntoIter` type, as well as `Iterator` for `IntoIter`. `Vec::into_iter` disassembles the `Vec` into its raw parts; additionally, `IntoIter` keeps track of a separate pointer, which is incremented correspondingly as the iterator advances, while the length, or the count of elements, is decremented. This also means that `IntoIter` takes the ownership of the backing buffer and is responsible to drop the remaining elements and free the backing buffer, if it's dropped. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-18-dakr@kernel.org [ Fixed typos. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: implement kernel `Vec` type

2024-10-15T21:10:32Z

`Vec` provides a contiguous growable array type with contents allocated with the kernel's allocators (e.g. `Kmalloc`, `Vmalloc` or `KVmalloc`). In contrast to Rust's stdlib `Vec` type, the kernel `Vec` type considers the kernel's GFP flags for all appropriate functions, always reports allocation failures through `Result<_, AllocError>` and remains independent from unstable features. [ This patch starts using a new unstable feature, `inline_const`, but it was stabilized in Rust 1.79.0, i.e. the next version after the minimum one, thus it will not be an issue. - Miguel ] Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-17-dakr@kernel.org [ Cleaned `rustdoc` unescaped backtick warning, added a couple more backticks elsewhere, fixed typos, sorted `feature`s, rewrapped documentation lines. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: introduce `ArrayLayout`

2024-10-15T20:56:59Z

When allocating memory for arrays using allocators, the `Layout::array` function is typically used. It returns a result, since the given size might be too big. However, `Vec` and its iterators store their allocated capacity and thus they already did check that the size is not too big. The `ArrayLayout` type provides this exact behavior, as it can be infallibly converted into a `Layout`. Instead of a `usize` capacity, `Vec` and other similar array-storing types can use `ArrayLayout` instead. Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-16-dakr@kernel.org [ Formatted a few comments. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

rust: alloc: remove extension of std's `Box`

2024-10-15T20:56:59Z

Now that all existing `Box` users were moved to the kernel `Box` type, remove the `BoxExt` extension and all other related extensions. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-14-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda