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Message-ID: <87y1n9jr1x.fsf@metaspace.dk>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:41:08 +0200
From: Andreas Hindborg <nmi@...aspace.dk>
To: y86-dev@...tonmail.com
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
Alice Ryhl <alice@...l.io>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/15] rust: sync: change error type of constructor
functions
y86-dev@...tonmail.com writes:
> From: Benno Lossin <y86-dev@...tonmail.com>
>
> Change the error type of the constructors of `Arc` and `UniqueArc` to be
> `AllocError` instead of `Error`. This makes the API more clear as to
> what can go wrong when calling `try_new` or its variants.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin <y86-dev@...tonmail.com>
> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>
> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>
> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>
> rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
> index f2f1c83d72ba..aa7135f0f238 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
> @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
>
> use crate::{
> bindings,
> - error::Result,
> types::{ForeignOwnable, Opaque},
> };
> use alloc::boxed::Box;
> use core::{
> + alloc::AllocError,
> marker::{PhantomData, Unsize},
> mem::{ManuallyDrop, MaybeUninit},
> ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
> @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Sync + Send> Sync for Arc<T> {}
>
> impl<T> Arc<T> {
> /// Constructs a new reference counted instance of `T`.
> - pub fn try_new(contents: T) -> Result<Self> {
> + pub fn try_new(contents: T) -> Result<Self, AllocError> {
> // INVARIANT: The refcount is initialised to a non-zero value.
> let value = ArcInner {
> // SAFETY: There are no safety requirements for this FFI call.
> @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ pub struct UniqueArc<T: ?Sized> {
>
> impl<T> UniqueArc<T> {
> /// Tries to allocate a new [`UniqueArc`] instance.
> - pub fn try_new(value: T) -> Result<Self> {
> + pub fn try_new(value: T) -> Result<Self, AllocError> {
> Ok(Self {
> // INVARIANT: The newly-created object has a ref-count of 1.
> inner: Arc::try_new(value)?,
> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ impl<T> UniqueArc<T> {
> }
>
> /// Tries to allocate a new [`UniqueArc`] instance whose contents are not initialised yet.
> - pub fn try_new_uninit() -> Result<UniqueArc<MaybeUninit<T>>> {
> + pub fn try_new_uninit() -> Result<UniqueArc<MaybeUninit<T>>, AllocError> {
> Ok(UniqueArc::<MaybeUninit<T>> {
> // INVARIANT: The newly-created object has a ref-count of 1.
> inner: Arc::try_new(MaybeUninit::uninit())?,
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