linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: add abstraction for `struct page`

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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 14:36:38 +0100
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, 
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, 
	Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>, 
	Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>, Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>, 
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>, 
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: add abstraction for `struct page`

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 7:51 AM Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 1:28 PM Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 01:33:46PM +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 1:47 AM Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 11:20:23AM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > +    /// Maps the page and writes into it from the given buffer.
> > > > > +    ///
> > > > > +    /// # Safety
> > > > > +    ///
> > > > > +    /// Callers must ensure that `src` is valid for reading `len` bytes.
> > > > > +    pub unsafe fn write(&self, src: *const u8, offset: usize, len: usize) -> Result {
> > > >
> > > > Use a slice like type as `src` maybe? Then the function can be safe:
> > > >
> > > >         pub fn write<S: AsRef<[u8]>>(&self, src: S, offset: usize) -> Result
> > > >
> > > > Besides, since `Page` impl `Sync`, shouldn't this `write` and the
> > > > `fill_zero` be a `&mut self` function? Or make them both `unsafe`
> > > > because of potential race and add some safety requirement?
> > >
> > > Ideally, we don't want data races with these methods to be UB. They
> >
> > I understand that, but in the current code, you can write:
> >
> >         CPU 0                   CPU 1
> >         =====                   =====
> >
> >         page.write(src1, 0, 8);
> >                                 page.write(src2, 0, 8);
> >
> > and it's a data race at kernel end. So my question is more how we can
> > prevent the UB ;-)
>
> Hm. Would the following work?
>
>     // Change existing functions to work with references, meaning they need an
>     // exclusive &mut self
>     pub fn with_page_mapped<T>(
>         &mut self,
>         f: impl FnOnce(&mut [u8; PAGE_SIZE]) -> T
>     ) -> T
>
>     pub fn with_pointer_into_page<T>(
>         &mut self,
>         off: usize,
>         len: usize,
>         f: impl FnOnce(&mut [u8]) -> Result<T>,
>     ) -> Result<T>
>
>     // writing methods now take &mut self
>     pub fn write(&mut self ...)
>     pub fn fill_zero(&mut self ...)
>     pub fn copy_into_page(&mut self ...)
>
>     // Add two new functions that take &self, but return shared access
>     pub fn with_page_mapped_raw<T>(
>         &self,
>         f: impl FnOnce(&UnsafeCell<[u8; PAGE_SIZE]>) -> T
>     ) -> T
>
>     pub fn with_pointer_into_page_raw<T>(
>         &self,
>         off: usize,
>         len: usize,
>         f: impl FnOnce(&[UnsafeCell<u8>]) -> Result<T>,
>     ) -> Result<T>
>
> This would mean that anyone who can obey rust's mutability rules can
> use a page without any safety or race conditions to worry about, much
> better for usability.

The methods can't be `&mut self` because I need the ability to perform
concurrent writes to disjoint subsets of the page.