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Message-ID: <20230517203119.3160435-2-aliceryhl@google.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 20:31:13 +0000
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/7] rust: workqueue: add low-level workqueue bindings
Define basic low-level bindings to a kernel workqueue. The API defined
here can only be used unsafely. Later commits will provide safe
wrappers.
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
---
rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +
rust/kernel/workqueue.rs | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 100 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
index 676995d4e460..c718524056a6 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ pub mod str;
pub mod sync;
pub mod task;
pub mod types;
+pub mod workqueue;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub use bindings;
diff --git a/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs b/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e66b6b50dfae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+//! Work queues.
+//!
+//! C header: [`include/linux/workqueue.h`](../../../../include/linux/workqueue.h)
+
+use crate::{bindings, types::Opaque};
+
+/// A kernel work queue.
+///
+/// Wraps the kernel's C `struct workqueue_struct`.
+///
+/// It allows work items to be queued to run on thread pools managed by the kernel. Several are
+/// always available, for example, `system`, `system_highpri`, `system_long`, etc.
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Queue(Opaque<bindings::workqueue_struct>);
+
+// SAFETY: Kernel workqueues are usable from any thread.
+unsafe impl Send for Queue {}
+unsafe impl Sync for Queue {}
+
+impl Queue {
+ /// Use the provided `struct workqueue_struct` with Rust.
+ ///
+ /// # Safety
+ ///
+ /// The caller must ensure that the provided raw pointer is not dangling, that it points at a
+ /// valid workqueue, and that it remains valid until the end of 'a.
+ pub unsafe fn from_raw<'a>(ptr: *const bindings::workqueue_struct) -> &'a Queue {
+ // SAFETY: The `Queue` type is `#[repr(transparent)]`, so the pointer cast is valid. The
+ // caller promises that the pointer is not dangling.
+ unsafe { &*(ptr as *const Queue) }
+ }
+
+ /// Enqueues a work item.
+ ///
+ /// This may fail if the work item is already enqueued in a workqueue.
+ pub fn enqueue<T: WorkItem + Send + 'static>(&self, w: T) -> T::EnqueueOutput {
+ let queue_ptr = self.0.get();
+
+ // SAFETY: There are two cases.
+ //
+ // 1. If `queue_work_on` returns false, then we failed to push the work item to the queue.
+ // In this case, we don't touch the work item again.
+ //
+ // 2. If `queue_work_on` returns true, then we pushed the work item to the queue. The work
+ // queue will call the function pointer in the `work_struct` at some point in the
+ // future. We require `T` to be static, so the type has no lifetimes annotated on it.
+ // We require `T` to be send, so there are no thread-safety issues to take care of.
+ //
+ // In either case we follow the safety requirements of `__enqueue`.
+ unsafe {
+ w.__enqueue(move |work_ptr| {
+ bindings::queue_work_on(bindings::WORK_CPU_UNBOUND as _, queue_ptr, work_ptr)
+ })
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/// A work item.
+///
+/// This is the low-level trait that is designed for being as general as possible.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// Implementers must ensure that `__enqueue` behaves as documented.
+pub unsafe trait WorkItem {
+ /// The return type of [`Queue::enqueue`].
+ type EnqueueOutput;
+
+ /// Enqueues this work item on a queue using the provided `queue_work_on` method.
+ ///
+ /// # Safety
+ ///
+ /// Calling this method guarantees that the provided closure will be called with a raw pointer
+ /// to a `struct work_struct`. The closure should behave in the following way:
+ ///
+ /// 1. If the `struct work_struct` cannot be pushed to a workqueue because its already in one,
+ /// then the closure should return `false`. It may not access the pointer after returning
+ /// `false`.
+ /// 2. If the `struct work_struct` is successfully added to a workqueue, then the closure
+ /// should return `true`. When the workqueue executes the work item, it will do so by
+ /// calling the function pointer stored in the `struct work_struct`. The work item ensures
+ /// that the raw pointer remains valid until that happens.
+ ///
+ /// This method may not have any other failure cases than the closure returning `false`. The
+ /// output type should reflect this, but it may also be an infallible type if the work item
+ /// statically ensures that pushing the `struct work_struct` will succeed.
+ ///
+ /// If the work item type is annotated with any lifetimes, then the workqueue must call the
+ /// function pointer before any such lifetime expires. (Or it may forget the work item and
+ /// never call the function pointer at all.)
+ ///
+ /// If the work item type is not [`Send`], then the work item must be executed on the same
+ /// thread as the call to `__enqueue`.
+ unsafe fn __enqueue<F>(self, queue_work_on: F) -> Self::EnqueueOutput
+ where
+ F: FnOnce(*mut bindings::work_struct) -> bool;
+}
--
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