netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] sched/core: Add __might_sleep

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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:41:41 +0100
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] sched/core: Add __might_sleep_precision()

On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Add __might_sleep_precision(), Rust friendly version of
> __might_sleep(), which takes a pointer to a string with the length
> instead of a null-terminated string.
>
> Rust's core::panic::Location::file(), which gives the file name of a
> caller, doesn't provide a null-terminated
> string. __might_sleep_precision() uses a precision specifier in the
> printk format, which specifies the length of a string; a string
> doesn't need to be a null-terminated.
>
> Modify __might_sleep() to call __might_sleep_precision() but the
> impact should be negligible. strlen() isn't called in a normal case;
> it's called only when printing the error (sleeping function called
> from invalid context).
>
> Note that Location::file() providing a null-terminated string for
> better C interoperability is under discussion [1].
>
> [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/466
> Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>