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Message-ID: <e43294f91b622bb9782df6d0193daa22c29f47f4.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:01:46 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boqun Feng
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] rust: time: Add Instant::from_nanos()

On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 14:29 +0200, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
> Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> writes:
> 
> > For implementing Rust bindings which can return a point in time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  rust/kernel/time.rs | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/time.rs b/rust/kernel/time.rs
> > index 8d6aa88724ad8..545963140f180 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/time.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/time.rs
> > @@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ pub fn elapsed(&self) -> Delta {
> >      pub(crate) fn as_nanos(self) -> i64 {
> >          self.inner
> >      }
> > +
> > +    #[expect(unused)]
> > +    #[inline]
> > +    pub(crate) fn from_nanos(nanos: i64) -> Self {
> 
> Should we `debug_assert!` a positive value here?

Possibly - somehow I completely missed the invariant of 0-KTIME_MAX though.
Seeing it know, I think that this function probably should just be unsafe. I
can add a debug_assert!() additionally though if you think we should still
have one

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas Hindborg
> 
> 
> 

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

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