linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] rust: page: Support borrowing `struct page` and physaddr conversion

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Message-ID: <87frkacmo8.fsf@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:24:07 +0100
From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
To: "Abdiel Janulgue" <abdiel.janulgue@...il.com>
Cc: "Asahi Lina" <lina@...hilina.net>,  "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@...nel.org>,
  "Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,  "Boqun Feng"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] rust: page: Support borrowing `struct page` and
 physaddr conversion

"Abdiel Janulgue" <abdiel.janulgue@...il.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 15/02/2025 21:47, Asahi Lina wrote:
>>
>> Given the discussion in the other subthreads, it looks like this is not
>> the best approach for page table management and using it for crash dumps
>> of arbitrary physical memory pages raises some eyebrows, so I'm going to
>> abandon this series.
>>
>> Abdiel, if the first two patches are helpful to your work, please feel
>> free to incorporate them into a v4. Otherwise, just go ahead with
>> whatever works for you!
>>
>
> Thanks you for improving the series, much appreciated! I will try to
> incorporate your improvements.
>
> Btw, I'll most probably pick this up again once I'm finished with the
> rust dma coherent allocator bindings.

The series has application in `rnull` as well and I will probably add it
as a dependency for next version.


Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg