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Message-ID: <20250918-write-offset-const-v1-1-eb51120d4117@google.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:02:11 +0000
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, 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>, 
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, 
	"Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kwilczynski@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rust: io: use const generics for read/write offsets

Using build_assert! to assert that offsets are in bounds is really
fragile and likely to result in spurious and hard-to-debug build
failures. Therefore, build_assert! should be avoided for this case.
Thus, update the code to perform the check in const evaluation instead.

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/regs.rs     |  4 ++--
 rust/kernel/devres.rs           |  4 ++--
 rust/kernel/io.rs               | 18 ++++++++++--------
 rust/kernel/io/mem.rs           |  6 +++---
 samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs | 10 +++++-----
 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/regs.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/regs.rs
index f46933aaa2214ee0ac58b1ea2a6aa99506a35b70..e3c306e48e86d1d6047cab7944e0fe000901d48b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/regs.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/regs.rs
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
 impl<const OFFSET: usize> Register<OFFSET> {
     #[inline]
     pub(crate) fn read(&self, dev: &Device<Bound>, iomem: &Devres<IoMem>) -> Result<u32> {
-        let value = (*iomem).access(dev)?.read32(OFFSET);
+        let value = (*iomem).access(dev)?.read32::<OFFSET>();
         Ok(value)
     }
 
     #[inline]
     pub(crate) fn write(&self, dev: &Device<Bound>, iomem: &Devres<IoMem>, value: u32) -> Result {
-        (*iomem).access(dev)?.write32(value, OFFSET);
+        (*iomem).access(dev)?.write32::<OFFSET>(value);
         Ok(())
     }
 }
diff --git a/rust/kernel/devres.rs b/rust/kernel/devres.rs
index da18091143a67fcfbb247e7cb4f59f5a4932cac5..3e66e10c05fa078e42162c7a367161fbf735a07f 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/devres.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/devres.rs
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ struct Inner<T: Send> {
 /// let devres = KBox::pin_init(Devres::new(dev, iomem), GFP_KERNEL)?;
 ///
 /// let res = devres.try_access().ok_or(ENXIO)?;
-/// res.write8(0x42, 0x0);
+/// res.write8::<0x0>(0x42);
 /// # Ok(())
 /// # }
 /// ```
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ pub fn device(&self) -> &Device {
     ///
     ///     // might_sleep()
     ///
-    ///     bar.write32(0x42, 0x0);
+    ///     bar.write32::<0x0>(0x42);
     ///
     ///     Ok(())
     /// }
diff --git a/rust/kernel/io.rs b/rust/kernel/io.rs
index 03b467722b8651ebecd660ac0e2d849cf88dc915..563ff8488100d9e07a7f4bffeb085db7bd7e9d6a 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/io.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/io.rs
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ pub fn maxsize(&self) -> usize {
 ///# fn no_run() -> Result<(), Error> {
 /// // SAFETY: Invalid usage for example purposes.
 /// let iomem = unsafe { IoMem::<{ core::mem::size_of::<u32>() }>::new(0xBAAAAAAD)? };
-/// iomem.write32(0x42, 0x0);
+/// iomem.write32::<0x0>(0x42);
 /// assert!(iomem.try_write32(0x42, 0x0).is_ok());
 /// assert!(iomem.try_write32(0x42, 0x4).is_err());
 /// # Ok(())
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ macro_rules! define_read {
         /// time, the build will fail.
         $(#[$attr])*
         #[inline]
-        pub fn $name(&self, offset: usize) -> $type_name {
-            let addr = self.io_addr_assert::<$type_name>(offset);
+        pub fn $name<const OFF: usize>(&self) -> $type_name {
+            let addr = self.io_addr_assert::<$type_name, OFF>();
 
             // SAFETY: By the type invariant `addr` is a valid address for MMIO operations.
             unsafe { bindings::$c_fn(addr as *const c_void) }
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ macro_rules! define_write {
         /// time, the build will fail.
         $(#[$attr])*
         #[inline]
-        pub fn $name(&self, value: $type_name, offset: usize) {
-            let addr = self.io_addr_assert::<$type_name>(offset);
+        pub fn $name<const OFF: usize>(&self, value: $type_name) {
+            let addr = self.io_addr_assert::<$type_name, OFF>();
 
             // SAFETY: By the type invariant `addr` is a valid address for MMIO operations.
             unsafe { bindings::$c_fn(value, addr as *mut c_void) }
@@ -217,10 +217,12 @@ fn io_addr<U>(&self, offset: usize) -> Result<usize> {
     }
 
     #[inline]
-    fn io_addr_assert<U>(&self, offset: usize) -> usize {
-        build_assert!(Self::offset_valid::<U>(offset, SIZE));
+    fn io_addr_assert<U, const OFF: usize>(&self) -> usize {
+        const {
+            build_assert!(Self::offset_valid::<U>(OFF, SIZE));
+        }
 
-        self.addr() + offset
+        self.addr() + OFF
     }
 
     define_read!(read8, try_read8, readb -> u8);
diff --git a/rust/kernel/io/mem.rs b/rust/kernel/io/mem.rs
index 6f99510bfc3a63dd72c1d47dc661dcd48fa7f54e..b73557f5f57c955ac251a46c9bdd6df0687411e2 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/io/mem.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/io/mem.rs
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn new(device: &'a Device<Bound>, resource: &'a Resource) -> S
     ///       pdev: &platform::Device<Core>,
     ///       info: Option<&Self::IdInfo>,
     ///    ) -> Result<Pin<KBox<Self>>> {
-    ///       let offset = 0; // Some offset.
+    ///       const OFFSET: usize = 0; // Some offset.
     ///
     ///       // If the size is known at compile time, use [`Self::iomap_sized`].
     ///       //
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn new(device: &'a Device<Bound>, resource: &'a Resource) -> S
     ///       let io = iomem.access(pdev.as_ref())?;
     ///
     ///       // Read and write a 32-bit value at `offset`.
-    ///       let data = io.read32_relaxed(offset);
+    ///       let data = io.read32_relaxed::<OFFSET>();
     ///
-    ///       io.write32_relaxed(data, offset);
+    ///       io.write32_relaxed::<OFFSET>(data);
     ///
     ///       # Ok(KBox::new(SampleDriver, GFP_KERNEL)?.into())
     ///     }
diff --git a/samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs b/samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs
index 606946ff4d7fd98e206ee6420a620d1c44eb0377..6f0388853e2b36e0800df5125a5dd8b20a6d5912 100644
--- a/samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs
+++ b/samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs
@@ -46,17 +46,17 @@ struct SampleDriver {
 impl SampleDriver {
     fn testdev(index: &TestIndex, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<u32> {
         // Select the test.
-        bar.write8(index.0, Regs::TEST);
+        bar.write8::<{ Regs::TEST }>(index.0);
 
-        let offset = u32::from_le(bar.read32(Regs::OFFSET)) as usize;
-        let data = bar.read8(Regs::DATA);
+        let offset = u32::from_le(bar.read32::<{ Regs::OFFSET }>()) as usize;
+        let data = bar.read8::<{ Regs::DATA }>();
 
         // Write `data` to `offset` to increase `count` by one.
         //
         // Note that we need `try_write8`, since `offset` can't be checked at compile-time.
         bar.try_write8(data, offset)?;
 
-        Ok(bar.read32(Regs::COUNT))
+        Ok(bar.read32::<{ Regs::COUNT }>())
     }
 }
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fn probe(pdev: &pci::Device<Core>, info: &Self::IdInfo) -> Result<Pin<KBox<Self>
     fn unbind(pdev: &pci::Device<Core>, this: Pin<&Self>) {
         if let Ok(bar) = this.bar.access(pdev.as_ref()) {
             // Reset pci-testdev by writing a new test index.
-            bar.write8(this.index.0, Regs::TEST);
+            bar.write8::<{ Regs::TEST }>(this.index.0);
         }
     }
 }

---
base-commit: cf4fd52e323604ccfa8390917593e1fb965653ee
change-id: 20250918-write-offset-const-0b231c4282ea

Best regards,
-- 
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>


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