linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

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Message-ID: <f2b519981ad40a61507f2548423d826d44274755.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:18:24 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Thomas Gleixner
 <tglx@...utronix.de>,  rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>, airlied@...hat.com, Ingo Molnar
 <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Waiman Long
 <longman@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
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 Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, FUJITA Tomonori
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

On Fri, 2024-10-04 at 08:58 +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On 02.10.24 22:20, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 16 2024 at 17:28, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > And here you open code the check which is in IrqDisabled::new()
> > 
> > So I'd rather see this as:
> > 
> >    token = unsafe { IrqDisabled::new() };
> >    let ret = cb(token);
> >    assert_valid(token);
> > 
> > I might misunderstand rust here, but the provided code does not make
> > sense to me.
> 
> The purpose of this check is to catch any dumb implementations of the
> closure `cb` passed to the function. For example
> 
>     with_irqs_disabled(|irq| {
>         let guard = spin_lock_irq.lock(irq); // lock a spinlock with IRQ disabled
>         unsafe { enable_irq() };
>         drop(guard); // unlock it with IRQ being enabled
>     });
> 
> The debug assert would catch this error.
> 
> 
> Of course we can move the debug assert into its own function taking the
> token. I think it's a good idea.

I'm fine with this - we could add a method to IrqDisabled itself to do an
assertion for this.

> 
> ---
> Cheers,
> Benno
> 

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

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