linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] rust: time: add Ktime

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Message-ID: <87v84p2m0c.ffs@tglx>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:57:55 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, John
 Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc: 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>, Benno
 Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg
 <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust: time: add Ktime

On Fri, Mar 22 2024 at 08:59, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> Introduce a wrapper around `ktime_t` with a few different useful
> methods.
>
> Rust Binder will use these bindings to compute how many milliseconds a
> transaction has been active for when dumping the current state of the
> Binder driver. This replicates the logic in C Binder [1].
>
> For a usage example in Rust Binder, see [2].
>
> The `ktime_get` method cannot be safely called in NMI context. This
> requirement is not checked by these abstractions, but it is intended
> that klint [3] or a similar tool will be used to check it in the future.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5ac8c0d09392290be789423f0dd78a520b830fab.1682333709.git.zhangchuang3@xiaomi.com/ [1]
> Link: https://r.android.com/3004103 [2]
> Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/klint [3]
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>