linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: file: add `Kuid` wrapper

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:04:47 +0100
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, 
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	Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: file: add `Kuid` wrapper

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 8:43 AM Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 5:22 AM Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Of course, once a wrapper for rcu_read_lock is available, it is
> > preferable to use that over either of the two above approaches.
>
> Is this worth a FIXME?

Shrug. I think a patch to introduce rcu_read_lock would go through the
helpers as a matter of course either way. But it also doesn't hurt.

Alice