linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

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Message-ID: <018a49c380568a817f57cfa47a3f7504d03519e9.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:21:09 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 09:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
> > thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
> > they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
> > equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> 
> So aside from the horrendous camel-case thing, why are you naming this

Also - sorry I didn't notice this comment before, but I wanted to respond
since it seems like you may not be aware: camel case is mandated as part of
the rust standard:

https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/naming.html

Of course the kernel has its own coding standards that we need to conform to
within reason! But if we tried to ignore camel casing for rust code we'd end
up with rust code where everything would be mixed between types from core
being camel cased and types from kernel crates not being camel cased.

> thing the wrong way around? Shouldn't it be SpinLockIrq rather than
> IrqSpinLock? Or possibly even SpinLockIrqSave?

fwiw too: I'm going to go with SpinLockIrq. SpinLockIrqSave would be a bit
misleading to what this type does because the interface simply makes it so
that it's impossible to acquire the lock outside of no-irq contexts without
resorting to unsafe blocks. Which is fine, since unsafe code is expected to be
able to violate any invariant of the language and relies on programmer-
enforced correctness like C.

> 
> Randomly changing the names of things isn't going to make it any easier
> for people to use this stuff.
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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