linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] rust: maple_tree: add MapleTree::lock() and load()

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Message-Id: <DC6DGM7E728G.3KM1EOLVJNR24@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:36:27 +0200
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>
To: "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Liam R. Howlett"
 <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, "Lorenzo Stoakes" <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@...nel.org>, "Andrew Ballance"
 <andrewjballance@...il.com>, "Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@...il.com>, "Gary
 Guo" <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>, "Andreas
 Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org>,
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] rust: maple_tree: add MapleTree::lock() and
 load()

On Tue Aug 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM CEST, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> To load a value, one must be careful to hold the lock while accessing
> it. To enable this, we add a lock() method so that you can perform
> operations on the value before the spinlock is released.
>
> This adds a MapleGuard type without using the existing SpinLock type.
> This ensures that the MapleGuard type is not unnecessarily large, and
> that it is easy to swap out the type of lock in case the C maple tree is
> changed to use a different kind of lock.
>
> Co-developed-by: Andrew Ballance <andrewjballance@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Ballance <andrewjballance@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Ballance <andrewjballance@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>

Without the unwrap() calls in the examples,

Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>