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Message-ID: <132e722c81391a7b99e340404374b5903a4759c3.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:47:09 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] rust: add `ww_mutex` support

Hi! One thing I realized I forgot to ask the last time I reviewed this: one of
the things that seems to be missing is the ability to use this API with locks
and lock-acquisition mechanisms that already exist on the C side of the
kernel.

I think the simplest equivalent to this I can point to is how we have:

 * Mutex::from_raw() (but only when the type protected by the mutex is () )
 * Guard::from_raw()

For ww mutexes we should have both of these as well, and also ::from_raw() for
WwAcquireCtx. This being said - as far as I can tell, it doesn't look like it
would be a big change for this series at all.

Also - thank you for the work so far :)

On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 16:13 +0300, Onur Özkan wrote:
> Changes made in v6:
>   - Added `unpinned_new` constructor for `WwClass` and updated global macros.
>   - Changed all tests (and docs) to use Arc/KBox instead of `stack_pin_init`
>     for `WwMutex` and `WwAcquireCtx`.
>   - Added `LockKind` and `lock_common` helper to unify locking logic.
>   - Added context-based and context-free locking functions for `WwMutex`.
>   - Added `ww_mutex/exec` module, a high-level API with auto `EDEADLK`
>     handling mechanism.
> 
> Onur Özkan (7):
>   rust: add C wrappers for ww_mutex inline functions
>   rust: implement `WwClass` for ww_mutex support
>   rust: implement `WwMutex`, `WwAcquireCtx` and `WwMutexGuard`
>   add KUnit coverage on Rust ww_mutex implementation
>   rust: ww_mutex: add context-free locking functions
>   rust: ww_mutex/exec: add high-level API
>   add KUnit coverage on ww_mutex/exec implementation
> 
>  rust/helpers/helpers.c                 |   1 +
>  rust/helpers/ww_mutex.c                |  39 ++
>  rust/kernel/error.rs                   |   1 +
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs               |   1 +
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock/ww_mutex.rs      | 634 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock/ww_mutex/exec.rs | 324 +++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 1000 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 rust/helpers/ww_mutex.c
>  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/sync/lock/ww_mutex.rs
>  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/sync/lock/ww_mutex/exec.rs
> 
> --
> 2.50.0

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