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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:13:10 -0800
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>,
Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, asahi@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] rust: error: Add from_kernel_result!() macro
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 09:59:25PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 7:17 PM Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > My preference to function instead of macro here is because I want to
> > avoid the extra level of abstraction and make things explict, so that
> > users and reviewers can understand the API behavior solely based on
> > Rust's types, functions and closures: they are simpler than macros, at
> > least to me ;-)
>
> There is one extra problem with the macro: `rustfmt` does not format
> the contents if called with braces (as we currently do).
Interesting, sounds like a missing feature in `rustfmt` or maybe we
don't use the correct config ;-)
>
> So when I was cleaning some things up for v8, one of the things I did
> was run manually `rustfmt` on the blocks by removing the macro
> invocation, in commit 77a1a8c952e1 ("rust: kernel: apply `rustfmt` to
> `from_kernel_result!` blocks").
>
> Having said that, it does format it when called with parenthesis
> wrapping the block, so we could do that if we end up with the macro.
>
> > First, I think the macro version here is just a poor-man's try block, in
> > other words, I'd expect explicit use of try blocks intead of
> > `from_kernel_result` when the feature is ready. If that's the case, we
> > need to change the use sites anyway.
>
> Yeah, if we eventually get a better language feature that fits well,
> then we should use it.
>
> > Do both implementation share the same behavior?
>
> Yeah, a `return` will return to the outer caller in the case of a
> `try` block, while it returns to the closure (macro) in the other
> case. Or do you mean something else?
>
"Yeah" means they have different behaviors, right? ;-)
Thanks for confirming and I think you get it, but just in case for
others reading this: if we use the macro way to implement
`from_kernel_result` as in this patch:
macro_rules! from_kernel_result {
($($tt:tt)*) => {{
$crate::error::from_kernel_result_helper((|| {
$($tt)*
})())
}};
}
and later we re-implement with try blocks:
macro_rules! from_kernel_result {
($($tt:tt)*) => {{
$crate::error::from_kernel_result_helper(try {
$($tt)*
})
}};
}
the `from_kernel_result` semantics will get changed on the `return`
statement inside the macro blocks.
And this is another reason why we want to avoid use macros here. Code
example as below:
https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=58ea8b95cdfd6b053561052853b0ac00
`foo_v1` and `foo_v3` has the exact same function body, but behave
differently.
> In that case, I think one could use use a labeled block to `break`
> out, not sure if `try` blocks will allow an easier way.
>
> We have a case of such a `return` within the closure at `rust/rust` in
> `file.rs`:
Thanks for finding an example! Means we did use return.
For this particular API, I'd say function right now, `try` blocks if
avaiable.
Regards,
Boqun
>
> from_kernel_result! {
> let off = match whence as u32 {
> bindings::SEEK_SET => SeekFrom::Start(offset.try_into()?),
> bindings::SEEK_CUR => SeekFrom::Current(offset),
> bindings::SEEK_END => SeekFrom::End(offset),
> _ => return Err(EINVAL),
> };
> ...
> Ok(off as bindings::loff_t)
> }
>
> Cheers,
> Miguel
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