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Message-ID: <539d3e0da773c32a42b4ab5c9d4aa90383481ff6.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:37:37 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] rust: add `ww_mutex` support

On Wed, 2025-08-06 at 08:57 +0300, Onur Özkan wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback! Supporting single locks is easy, I just
> didn't think it was a good idea at first but it looks like I missed
> some cases.
> 
> I can implement two types of locking functions: one on `WwMutex` where
> `WwMutex::lock` handles a single lock without a context, and another on
> `WwAcquireCtx`, where `WwAcquireCtx::lock` is used for handling
> multiple contexts.
> 
> e.g.,:
> 
>     let mutex = WwMutex::new(...);
>     mutex.lock(); // without context, for single locks
> 
>     let ctx = WwAcquireCtx::new(...);
>     ctx.lock(mutex); // with context, for multiple locks
> 
> What do you think?

Yeah I think this works great! One thing I'm curious about: as was previously
mentioned in the thread, when there's no lock context a ww_mutex is basically
identical to a mutex. Which makes me wonder if maybe it would make sense to
actually implement ww_mutex as a kernel::sync::Backend exclusively for ctx-
free lock acquisitions, and then simply implement locking with contexts
through WwAcquireCtx. That way we at least get to reuse some of the locking
infrastructure we already have in rust without overcomplicating it for
everyone else.

> 
> Regards,
> Onur
> 

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

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