linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 1/4] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types

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Message-Id: <DB6WZSFEJ6N1.SMX5O3QTJVDJ@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:18:52 +0200
From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>
To: "Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, "Oliver Mangold"
 <oliver.mangold@...me>, "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@...nel.org>, "Alex Gaynor"
 <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, "Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@...il.com>, "Gary Guo"
 <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, "Trevor
 Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>, "Asahi Lina" <lina+kernel@...hilina.net>,
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/4] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types

On Tue Jul 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM CEST, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
> "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue Jul 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM CEST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@...me> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Note, though, that I already moved it from types.rs to types/ownable.rs on
>>>> request. It seems to me different people here have different ideas where it
>>>> should be placed. I feel now, that it would make sense to come to an
>>>> agreement between the interested parties about where it should finally be
>>>> placed, before I move it again. Could I ask that we settle that question
>>>> once and for all before my next revision?
>>>
>>> Yeah, if there is a disagreement with something said previously, then
>>> it should be resolved before starting to ping-pong between approaches
>>> with more and more patch versions. Reviewers can forget or they may
>>> not have read an earlier comment, but you did the right thing
>>> mentioning there is such a conflict in opinions.
>>
>> Yeah, I checked and that was Andreas on v9. @Andreas what do you think?
>>
>> I think we should just get rid of `types.rs` and split it into:
>>
>> * `opaque.rs`
>> * `foreign.rs`
>> * `scope_guard.rs` (this might need a better name)
>>
>> `Either` can just be removed entirely, `AlwaysRefcounted` & `ARef`
>> should be in the `sync` module (I already created an issue for this) as
>> well as `NotThreadSafe` (or we could create a `marker` module for that).
>> Thoughts?
>
> Sounds good. I just wanted to prevent us from cramming everything into
> types.rs.

Yeah me too :)

> But we should probably move `Owned` into `sync` with `ARef` et. al.,
> right?

I don't think it fits into `sync`... It's more like a `Box` and could
very well store something that is `!Send` & `!Sync`.

---
Cheers,
Benno