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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:49:12 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] rust: Add irq abstraction, SpinLockIrq

On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 14:31 -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, at 2:00 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 13 2024 at 14:43, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 09:06:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > But that makes `cv.wait()` not working, because interrtups would be
> > > still disabled when schedule() is called.
> > > 
> > > I'm waiting for Lyude's new version (with lock_first(), and
> > > unlock_last()) to see how we can resolve this. We may need to redesign
> > > `CondVar::wait`.
> > 
> > Thinking more about this. I think there is a more general problem here.
> > 
> > Much of the rust effort today is trying to emulate the existing way how
> > the C implementations work.
> > 
> > I think that's fundamentally wrong because a lot of the programming
> > patterns in the kernel are fundamentally wrong in C as well. They are
> > just proliferated technical debt.
> > 
> > What should be done is to look at it from the rust perspective in the
> > first place: How should this stuff be implemented correctly?
> > 
> 
> I totally agree. One of things that can help is handling nested interruption
> disabling differently: we can do something similar as preemption disable,
> i.e. using a percpu counter to record the level of interrupt disabling,
> as a result, SpinLockIrq::lock() just increases the counter and return the
> Guard, when the Guard drops the counter decreases. In this way, no matter
> what’s the order of Guard dropping, we remain correctly on interrupt disable
> states. I can implement a new set of local_irq_*() in this way and let Rust use
> this. Thoughts?

I mean, I'm still working on upstreaming this so I am more then happy to do
this :P.  This being said though, I actually don't think this approach is
right even for rust. I actually think the correctness enforcement we get with
the IrqDisabled tokens is the way to go. It's not just about enable/disable,
it's also about making sure that we don't allow Guards for interrupt-disabled
spinlocks to exit said contexts. I don't see how we could reasonably implement
this without using tokens and having a closure interface - and that's
absolutely losing a benefit of rust. If we can check this stuff during compile
time, we should.

> 
> Regards,
> Boqun
> 
> > Then you work from there and go the extra mile to create some creative
> > workarounds at the abstraction level instead of trying to mimic the
> > existing C nonsense.
> > 
> > Which in turn gives you a way cleaner pattern of implementing stuff in
> > rust.
> > 
> > Stop worrying about mostly irrelevant low level details which are not
> > relevant to the primary audience of rust adoption. We can worry about
> > them when we replace the scheduler and the low level interrupt handling
> > code ten years down the road.
> > 
> > Please focus on providing a sane and efficient programming environment
> > to get actual stuff (drivers) into the rust domain.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >         tglx
> 

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

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