linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: time: Implement Add<Delta>/Sub<Delta> for Instant

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Message-ID: <17f3922776f0cf9b1a414ff1e097632d013b60f0.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:41:08 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
 Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andreas
 Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,  FUJITA Tomonori
 <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
 Anna-Maria Behnsen	 <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, John Stultz
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 <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor	 <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Gary Guo
 <gary@...yguo.net>,  Björn Roy Baron	
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>, Trevor Gross	
 <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: time: Implement Add<Delta>/Sub<Delta> for
 Instant

On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 20:23 +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2025-07-27 at 07:33 +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm not so sure what to think about this clamp logic. Maybe it is the
> > > best way to go ...
> > 
> > Yeah - I was kinda hoping the mailing list would give me the direction to go
> > on this one. The other thing that I considered that might make more sense was
> > instead to implement these so that when over/underflow checking is enabled we
> > panic when we get a value out of the range of 0 to KTIME_MAX. Would that make
> > more sense?
> 
> Well, it would certainly be more consistent.
> 
> What does your use-case need?

Honestly saturated or not doesn't really matter much for us - at least for the
time being. I think the only real danger of overflow/underflow we have is what
would happen if we kept vblanks enabled for over 584 years or if the system
was on for that long. So, I'm fine with either, honestly panicking might be
the least surprising behavior here (and we can have saturating add/removve in
the future as functions just like how rust exposes it elsewhere).

> 
> Alice
> 

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

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