linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/5] rust: bitmap: add BitmapVec::new

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Message-ID: <20251021-binder-bitmap-v2-2-e652d172c62b@google.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:32:44 +0000
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@...roid.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>, 
	Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>, Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>, 
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Burak Emir <bqe@...gle.com>, 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>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/5] rust: bitmap: add BitmapVec::new_small()

This constructor is useful when you just want to create a BitmapVec
without allocating but don't care how large it is.

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
---
 rust/kernel/bitmap.rs | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/bitmap.rs b/rust/kernel/bitmap.rs
index 15fa23b45054b9272415fcc000e3e3b52c74d7c1..4ffe9eb0f208a3d62016e00297f5a0800aa33336 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/bitmap.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/bitmap.rs
@@ -232,6 +232,16 @@ impl BitmapVec {
     /// The maximum length that avoids allocating.
     pub const NO_ALLOC_MAX_LEN: usize = BITS_PER_LONG;
 
+    /// Constructs a new [`BitmapVec`] without allocating.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn new_small() -> Self {
+        // INVARIANT: `nbits <= NO_ALLOC_MAX_LEN`, so an inline bitmap is the right repr.
+        BitmapVec {
+            repr: BitmapRepr { bitmap: 0 },
+            nbits: BitmapVec::NO_ALLOC_MAX_LEN,
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Constructs a new [`BitmapVec`].
     ///
     /// Fails with [`AllocError`] when the [`BitmapVec`] could not be allocated. This

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