linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] gpu: nova-core: add FbRange.len() and use it in boot.rs

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Message-ID: <39a066a209f663076a7b0d7b92b1bbaffe3746fd.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:55:28 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>, John Hubbard
 <jhubbard@...dia.com>,  Danilo Krummrich	 <dakr@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] gpu: nova-core: add FbRange.len() and use it in
 boot.rs



On Fri, 2025-11-28 at 14:27 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Thu Nov 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote:
> > On 11/26/25 3:43 PM, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > I'm not sure this is necessary - for one, we could just use the .len() method
> > > on the Range. As well - if we just implement Deref for FbRange (which I think
> > > would be fine here) we could just use .len() through that.
> > 
> > Hi Lyude!
> > 
> > Good idea about the deref coercion. It has a minor type mismatch as-is,
> > though: Range<u64>::len() returns usize, but FbRange::len() returns u64,
> > which matches the callers that we have so far.
> 
> It's even worse than that, `Range<u64>::len()` simply doesn't exist. :)

oh huh! OK - this makes sense then :)

> 
> `len()` is implemented through `ExactSizeIterator`, which specifies the
> return type as `usize`. This obviously cannot provide a reliable result
> when the range is u64, so the implementation was simply not done. See
> [1] for evidence.
> 
> But having our own range type lets us slip our own `fn len(&self) ->
> u64` implementation.
> 
> [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Range.html

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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