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Message-ID: <38f11766-b601-410b-9025-1e6b4c2203e7@dakr.org>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 16:34:00 +0200
From: Danilo Krummrich <me@...r.org>
To: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/30] Rust abstractions for VFS
Hi Wedson,
On 5/14/24 15:16, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
> This series introduces Rust abstractions that allow read-only file systems to
> be written in Rust.
>
> There are three file systems implementations using these abstractions
> abstractions: ext2, tarfs, and puzzlefs. The first two are part of this series.
>
> Rust file system modules can be declared with the `module_fs` macro and are
> required to implement the following functions (which are part of the
> `FileSystem` trait):
>
> fn fill_super(
> sb: &mut SuperBlock<Self, sb::New>,
> mapper: Option<inode::Mapper>,
> ) -> Result<Self::Data>;
>
> fn init_root(sb: &SuperBlock<Self>) -> Result<dentry::Root<Self>>;
>
> They can optionally implement the following:
>
> fn read_xattr(
> _dentry: &DEntry<Self>,
> _inode: &INode<Self>,
> _name: &CStr,
> _outbuf: &mut [u8],
> ) -> Result<usize>;
>
> fn statfs(_dentry: &DEntry<Self>) -> Result<Stat>;
>
> They may also choose the type of the data they can attach to superblocks and/or
> inodes.
>
> Lastly, file systems can implement inode, file, and address space operations
> and attach them to inodes when they're created, similar to how C does it. They
> can get a ro address space operations table from an implementation of iomap
> operations, to be used with generic ro file operations.
>
> A git tree is available here:
> git://github.com/wedsonaf/linux.git vfs-v2
>
> Web:
> https://github.com/wedsonaf/linux/commits/vfs-v2
This branch indicates that this patch series might have a few more dependencies
that are not upstream yet, e.g. [1].
Do you intend to send them in a separate series (soon)? In case they were already
submitted somewhere and I just failed to find them, please be so kind an provide
me with a pointer.
[1] https://github.com/wedsonaf/linux/commit/96ef0376887f4194ebad608f9943eb41108cf255
- Danilo
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> - Rebased to latest rust-next tree
> - Removed buffer heads
> - Added iomap support
> - Removed `_pin` field from `Registration` as it's not needed anymore
> - Renamed sample filesystem to match the module's name
> - Using typestate instead of a separate type for superblock/new-superblock
> - Created separate submodules for superblocks, inodes, dentries, and files
> - Split out operations from FileSystem to inode/file/address_space ops, similar to how C does it
> - Removed usages of folio_set_error
> - Removed UniqueFolio, for now reading blocks from devices via the pagecache
> - Changed map() to return the entire folio if not in highmem
> - Added support for unlocking the folio asynchronously
> - Added `from_raw` to all new ref-counted types
> - Added explicit types in calls to cast()
> - Added typestate to folio
> - Added support for implementing get_link
> - Fixed data race when reading inode->i_state
> - Added nofs scope support during allocation
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231018122518.128049-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/
>
> ---
>
> Wedson Almeida Filho (30):
> rust: fs: add registration/unregistration of file systems
> rust: fs: introduce the `module_fs` macro
> samples: rust: add initial ro file system sample
> rust: fs: introduce `FileSystem::fill_super`
> rust: fs: introduce `INode<T>`
> rust: fs: introduce `DEntry<T>`
> rust: fs: introduce `FileSystem::init_root`
> rust: file: move `kernel::file` to `kernel::fs::file`
> rust: fs: generalise `File` for different file systems
> rust: fs: add empty file operations
> rust: fs: introduce `file::Operations::read_dir`
> rust: fs: introduce `file::Operations::seek`
> rust: fs: introduce `file::Operations::read`
> rust: fs: add empty inode operations
> rust: fs: introduce `inode::Operations::lookup`
> rust: folio: introduce basic support for folios
> rust: fs: add empty address space operations
> rust: fs: introduce `address_space::Operations::read_folio`
> rust: fs: introduce `FileSystem::read_xattr`
> rust: fs: introduce `FileSystem::statfs`
> rust: fs: introduce more inode types
> rust: fs: add per-superblock data
> rust: fs: allow file systems backed by a block device
> rust: fs: allow per-inode data
> rust: fs: export file type from mode constants
> rust: fs: allow populating i_lnk
> rust: fs: add `iomap` module
> rust: fs: add memalloc_nofs support
> tarfs: introduce tar fs
> WIP: fs: ext2: add rust ro ext2 implementation
>
> fs/Kconfig | 2 +
> fs/Makefile | 2 +
> fs/rust-ext2/Kconfig | 13 +
> fs/rust-ext2/Makefile | 8 +
> fs/rust-ext2/defs.rs | 173 +++++++
> fs/rust-ext2/ext2.rs | 551 +++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/tarfs/Kconfig | 15 +
> fs/tarfs/Makefile | 8 +
> fs/tarfs/defs.rs | 80 +++
> fs/tarfs/tar.rs | 394 +++++++++++++++
> rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 11 +
> rust/helpers.c | 182 +++++++
> rust/kernel/block.rs | 10 +-
> rust/kernel/error.rs | 8 +-
> rust/kernel/file.rs | 251 ----------
> rust/kernel/folio.rs | 305 ++++++++++++
> rust/kernel/fs.rs | 492 +++++++++++++++++++
> rust/kernel/fs/address_space.rs | 90 ++++
> rust/kernel/fs/dentry.rs | 136 ++++++
> rust/kernel/fs/file.rs | 607 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> rust/kernel/fs/inode.rs | 780 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> rust/kernel/fs/iomap.rs | 281 +++++++++++
> rust/kernel/fs/sb.rs | 194 ++++++++
> rust/kernel/lib.rs | 6 +-
> rust/kernel/mem_cache.rs | 2 -
> rust/kernel/user.rs | 1 -
> samples/rust/Kconfig | 10 +
> samples/rust/Makefile | 1 +
> samples/rust/rust_rofs.rs | 202 ++++++++
> scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py | 2 +-
> 30 files changed, 4555 insertions(+), 262 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 fs/rust-ext2/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 fs/rust-ext2/Makefile
> create mode 100644 fs/rust-ext2/defs.rs
> create mode 100644 fs/rust-ext2/ext2.rs
> create mode 100644 fs/tarfs/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 fs/tarfs/Makefile
> create mode 100644 fs/tarfs/defs.rs
> create mode 100644 fs/tarfs/tar.rs
> delete mode 100644 rust/kernel/file.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/folio.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs/address_space.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs/dentry.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs/file.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs/inode.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs/iomap.rs
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/fs/sb.rs
> create mode 100644 samples/rust/rust_rofs.rs
>
>
> base-commit: 183ea65d1fcd71039cf4d111a22d69c337bfd344
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