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Message-ID: <b930c2f98149785a750c1ae6f4c37f63a0dd936a.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:52:16 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/7] rust: time: Add Instant::from_nanos()

On Sun, 2025-08-17 at 16:18 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:42:21 -0400
> Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > For implementing Rust bindings which can return a point in time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > V4:
> > * Turn from_nanos() into an unsafe function in order to ensure that we
> >    uphold the invariants of Instant
> > V5:
> > * Add debug_assert!() to from_nanos
> > 
> >   rust/kernel/time.rs | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/time.rs b/rust/kernel/time.rs
> > index 64c8dcf548d63..75088d080b834 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/time.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/time.rs
> > @@ -200,6 +200,29 @@ pub fn elapsed(&self) -> Delta {
> >       pub(crate) fn as_nanos(&self) -> i64 {
> >           self.inner
> >       }
> > +
> > +    /// Create an [`Instant`] from a time duration specified in nanoseconds without checking if it
> > +    /// is positive.
> 
> Can we create Instant (a specific poin in time) from a time duraiton?
> 
> The caller (the 7th patch) creates Instant from C side's Instant? 

Yep. To clarify too, I used "duration" because "an instant in time represented
by nanoseconds" didn't feel like it made much sense. But it probably doesn't
matter given your comment down below…

> 
> > +    /// # Panics
> > +    ///
> > +    /// On debug builds, this function will panic if `nanos` violates our safety contract.
> > +    ///
> > +    /// # Safety
> > +    ///
> > +    /// The caller promises that `nanos` is in the range from 0 to `KTIME_MAX`.
> 
> No conclusion has been made yet, but using a mathematical integer
> interval or a Rust range expression might be a better fit here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87ms9ktoly.fsf@kernel.org/

I had been wondering that, happy to change this later down the line when
there's a decision (don't want to wait on it right now though, since we're
pretty much almost done with getting this patch series reviewed :).

> 
> > +    #[expect(unused)]
> > +    #[inline]
> > +    pub(crate) unsafe fn from_nanos(nanos: i64) -> Self {
> 
> If this function creates Instant from C side's Instant, from_ktime()
> might be better?

I'm fine with that! Honestly I think this makes more sense to me anyhow, will
send out a new version in a bit (and reword the description of this function a
bit).

> 
> 
> > +        debug_assert!(nanos >= 0);
> > +
> > +        // INVARIANT: Our safety contract ensures that `nanos` is in the range from 0 to
> > +        // `KTIME_MAX`.
> > +        Self {
> > +            inner: nanos as bindings::ktime_t,
> > +            _c: PhantomData,
> > +        }
> > +    }
> >   }
> >   
> >   impl<C: ClockSource> core::ops::Sub for Instant<C> {
> > -- 
> > 2.50.0
> > 
> > 
> 

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

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