linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 0/2] rust: zpool: add abstraction for zpool drivers

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Message-Id: <20250829071709.1973086-1-vitaly.wool@konsulko.se>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:17:09 +0200
From: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.se>
To: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
	Bjorn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
	Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
	Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.se>
Subject: [PATCH v5 0/2] rust: zpool: add abstraction for zpool drivers

Zpool is a common frontend for memory storage pool implementations.
These pools are typically used to store compressed memory objects,
e. g. for Zswap, the lightweight compressed cache for swap pages.

This patch provides the interface to use Zpool in Rust kernel code,
thus enabling Rust implementations of Zpool allocators for arbitrary
Zpool users.

Co-developed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.se>
---
Changelog:
v1 -> v2:
* reworked to stick to the existing Rust driver infrastructure
* removed raw pointers from the Rust API
v2 -> v3:
* detailed safety requirements for unsafe API functions
* removed unwrap()
* some typo corrections
v3 -> v4:
* added a working example of zpool Rust API usage in the
  documentation part
* change to Flags arranged as a separate patch
* improved safety requirements for ZpoolDriver trait
v4 -> v5:
* created a new type ZpoolHandle for handle representation on the
  Rust side
* improved description of Flags::from_raw()
* pool is no more borrowed as mutable for ZpoolDriver::malloc()
* ZpoolDriver::destroy() removed
* improved ZpoolDriver implementation example
* typos/markup corrections
* new files added to MAINTAINERS
---
 MAINTAINERS                     |    2 
 rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h |    1 
 rust/helpers/helpers.c          |    1 
 rust/helpers/zpool.c            |    8 +
 rust/kernel/alloc.rs            |    7 +
 rust/kernel/lib.rs              |    2 
 rust/kernel/zpool.rs            |  377 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 398 insertions(+)