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Message-ID: <a7d28a22-d782-43cf-8ec0-d239c467ffb3@proton.me>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:17:28 +0000
From: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
To: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] rust: sync: add `Arc::as_ptr`

On 21.09.24 17:58, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:03:50 +0000
> Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me> wrote:
> 
>> On 18.09.24 00:27, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
>>> Add a method to get a pointer to the data contained in an `Arc`.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
>>> ---
>>>  rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs | 8 ++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
>>> index 3673496c2363..a57ea3e2b44c 100644
>>> --- a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
>>> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
>>> @@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ pub fn into_raw(self) -> *const T {
>>>          unsafe { core::ptr::addr_of!((*ptr).data) }
>>>      }
>>>
>>> +    /// Return a raw pointer to the data in this arc.
>>> +    pub fn as_ptr(&self) -> *const T {
>>
>> I don't know if we have a convention for this, but shouldn't this be an
>> associated function? Because if `T` also has an `as_ptr` function, it
>> will be shadowed by this one.
> 
> The usual Rust convention is usually that if `Deref` is implemented,
> then unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, associated function
> should be used.

We don't do this for `into_raw` (ie it takes `self`), I will open a
good-first-issue to fix that then.

---
Cheers,
Benno