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Message-Id: <DAU5TAFKJQOF.2DFO7YAHZA4V2@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:28:53 +0200
From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>
To: "Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc: "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, "Danilo Krummrich"
 <dakr@...nel.org>, "Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>, "Miguel
 Ojeda" <ojeda@...nel.org>, "Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, "Gary
 Guo" <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, "Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
 "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>, "Greg Kroah-Hartman"
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
 "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>, "Bjorn Helgaas"
 <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Krzysztof Wilczy´nski
 <kwilczynski@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] rust: irq: add support for non-threaded IRQs and
 handlers

On Mon Jun 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM CEST, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 10:31:16AM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 05:26:14PM +0200, Benno Lossin wrote:
>> > On Mon Jun 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM CEST, Alice Ryhl wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > >> On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 07:51:08PM -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
>> > >> > +        dev: &'a Device<Bound>,
>> > >> > +        irq: u32,
>> > >> > +        flags: Flags,
>> > >> > +        name: &'static CStr,
>> > >> > +        handler: T,
>> > >> > +    ) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> + 'a {
>> > >> > +        let closure = move |slot: *mut Self| {
>> > >> > +            // SAFETY: The slot passed to pin initializer is valid for writing.
>> > >> > +            unsafe {
>> > >> > +                slot.write(Self {
>> > >> > +                    inner: Devres::new(
>> > >> > +                        dev,
>> > >> > +                        RegistrationInner {
>> > >> > +                            irq,
>> > >> > +                            cookie: slot.cast(),
>> > >> > +                        },
>> > >> > +                        GFP_KERNEL,
>> > >> > +                    )?,
>> > >> > +                    handler,
>> > >> > +                    _pin: PhantomPinned,
>> > >> > +                })
>> > >> > +            };
>> > >> > +
>> > >> > +            // SAFETY:
>> > >> > +            // - The callbacks are valid for use with request_irq.
>> > >> > +            // - If this succeeds, the slot is guaranteed to be valid until the
>> > >> > +            // destructor of Self runs, which will deregister the callbacks
>> > >> > +            // before the memory location becomes invalid.
>> > >> > +            let res = to_result(unsafe {
>> > >> > +                bindings::request_irq(
>> > >> > +                    irq,
>> > >> > +                    Some(handle_irq_callback::<T>),
>> > >> > +                    flags.into_inner() as usize,
>> > >> > +                    name.as_char_ptr(),
>> > >> > +                    slot.cast(),
>> > >> > +                )
>> > >> > +            });
>> > >> > +
>> > >> > +            if res.is_err() {
>> > >> > +                // SAFETY: We are returning an error, so we can destroy the slot.
>> > >> > +                unsafe { core::ptr::drop_in_place(&raw mut (*slot).handler) };
>> > >> > +            }
>> > >> > +
>> > >> > +            res
>> > >> > +        };
>> > >> > +
>> > >> > +        // SAFETY:
>> > >> > +        // - if this returns Ok, then every field of `slot` is fully
>> > >> > +        // initialized.
>> > >> > +        // - if this returns an error, then the slot does not need to remain
>> > >> > +        // valid.
>> > >> > +        unsafe { pin_init_from_closure(closure) }
>> > >>
>> > >> Can't we use try_pin_init!() instead, move request_irq() into the initializer of
>> > >> RegistrationInner and initialize inner last?
>> > >
>> > > We need a pointer to the entire struct when calling
>> > > bindings::request_irq. I'm not sure this allows you to easily get one?
>> > > I don't think using container_of! here is worth it.
>> > 
>> > There is the `&this in` syntax (`this` is of type `NonNull<Self>`):
>> > 
>> >     try_pin_init!(&this in Self {
>> >         inner: Devres::new(
>> >             dev,
>> >             RegistrationInner {
>> >                 irq,
>> >                 cookie: this.as_ptr().cast(),
>> >             },
>> >             GFP_KERNEL,
>> >         )?,
>> >         handler,
>> >         _pin: {
>> >             to_result(unsafe {
>> >                 bindings::request_irq(
>> >                     irq,
>> >                     Some(handle_irq_callback::<T>),
>> >                     flags.into_inner() as usize,
>> >                     name.as_char_ptr(),
>> >                     slot.as_ptr().cast(),
>> 
>> this is "this" instead of "slot", right?
>> 
>> >                 )
>> >             })?;
>> >             PhantomPinned
>> >         },
>> >     })
>> > 
>> > Last time around, I also asked this question and you replied with that
>> > we need to abort the initializer when `request_irq` returns false and
>> > avoid running `Self::drop` (thus we can't do it using `pin_chain`).
>> > 
>> > I asked what we could do instead and you mentioned the `_: {}`
>> > initializers and those would indeed solve it, but we can abuse the
>> > `_pin` field for that :)
>> > 
>> 
>> Hmm.. but if request_irq() fails, aren't we going to call `drop` on
>> `inner`, which drops the `Devres` which will eventually call
>> `RegistrationInner::drop()`? And that's a `free_irq()` without
>> `request_irq()` succeeded.
>> 
>
> This may however work ;-) Because at `request_irq()` time, all it needs
> is ready, and if it fails, `RegistrationInner` won't construct.
>
>     try_pin_init!(&this in Self {
>         handler,
>         inner: Devres::new(
>             dev,
>             RegistrationInner {
>                 // Needs to use `handler` address as cookie, same for
>                 // request_irq().
>                 cookie: &raw (*(this.as_ptr().cast()).handler),
>                 irq: {
>                      to_result(unsafe { bindings::request_irq(...) })?;
> 					 irq
> 				}
>              },
>              GFP_KERNEL,
>         )?,
>         _pin: PhantomPinned
>     })

Well yes and no, with the Devres changes, the `cookie` can just be the
address of the `RegistrationInner` & we can do it this way :)

---
Cheers,
Benno

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