linux-kernel - Re: C aggregate passing (Rust kernel policy)

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Message-ID: <CANiq72mdzUJocjXhPRQEEdgRXsr+TEMt99V5-9R7TjKB7Dtfaw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:41:52 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
Cc: Ventura Jack <venturajack85@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, airlied@...il.com, boqun.feng@...il.com, 
	david.laight.linux@...il.com, ej@...i.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, 
	hch@...radead.org, hpa@...or.com, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	Ralf Jung <post@...fj.de>
Subject: Re: C aggregate passing (Rust kernel policy)

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> I believe (Miguel was talking about this at one of the conferences,
> maybe he'll chime in) that there was work in progress to solidify the
> aliasing and ownership rules at the unsafe level, but it sounded like it
> may have still been an area of research.

Not sure what I said, but Cc'ing Ralf in case he has time and wants to
share something on this (thanks in advance!).

>From a quick look, Tree Borrows was submitted for publication back in November:

    https://jhostert.de/assets/pdf/papers/villani2024trees.pdf
    https://perso.crans.org/vanille/treebor/

Cheers,
Miguel