From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
To: lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, vbabka@suse.cz,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, urezki@gmail.com, ojeda@kernel.org,
alex.gaynor@gmail.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, gary@garyguo.net,
bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com, lossin@kernel.org,
a.hindborg@kernel.org, aliceryhl@google.com, tmgross@umich.edu,
abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com, acourbot@nvidia.com
Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/7] rust: page: implement BorrowedPage
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 20:10:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250808181155.223504-2-dakr@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250808181155.223504-1-dakr@kernel.org>
Currently, a Page always owns the underlying struct page.
However, sometimes a struct page may be owned by some other entity, e.g.
a vmalloc allocation.
Hence, introduce BorrowedPage to support such cases, until the Ownable
solution [1] lands.
This is required by the scatterlist abstractions.
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/ZnCzLIly3DRK2eab@boqun-archlinux/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---
rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 1 +
rust/kernel/page.rs | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
index 84d60635e8a9..0e140e07758b 100644
--- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
+++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
#include <linux/mdio.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/of_device.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
diff --git a/rust/kernel/page.rs b/rust/kernel/page.rs
index 7c1b17246ed5..631718a6ad7d 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/page.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/page.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,12 @@
error::Result,
uaccess::UserSliceReader,
};
-use core::ptr::{self, NonNull};
+use core::{
+ marker::PhantomData,
+ mem::ManuallyDrop,
+ ops::Deref,
+ ptr::{self, NonNull},
+};
/// A bitwise shift for the page size.
pub const PAGE_SHIFT: usize = bindings::PAGE_SHIFT as usize;
@@ -30,6 +35,74 @@ pub const fn page_align(addr: usize) -> usize {
(addr + (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) & PAGE_MASK
}
+/// Representation of a non-owning reference to a [`Page`].
+///
+/// This type provides a borrowed version of a [`Page`] that is owned by some other entity, e.g. a
+/// [`Vmalloc`] allocation such as [`VBox`].
+///
+/// # Example
+///
+/// ```
+/// # use kernel::{bindings, prelude::*};
+/// use kernel::page::{BorrowedPage, Page, PAGE_SIZE};
+/// # use core::{mem::MaybeUninit, ptr, ptr::NonNull };
+///
+/// fn borrow_page<'a>(vbox: &'a mut VBox<MaybeUninit<[u8; PAGE_SIZE]>>) -> BorrowedPage<'a> {
+/// let ptr = ptr::from_ref(&**vbox);
+///
+/// // SAFETY: `ptr` is a valid pointer to `Vmalloc` memory.
+/// let page = unsafe { bindings::vmalloc_to_page(ptr.cast()) };
+///
+/// // SAFETY: `vmalloc_to_page` returns a valid pointer to a `struct page` for a valid
+/// // pointer to `Vmalloc` memory.
+/// let page = unsafe { NonNull::new_unchecked(page) };
+///
+/// // SAFETY:
+/// // - `self.0` is a valid pointer to a `struct page`.
+/// // - `self.0` is valid for the entire lifetime of `self`.
+/// unsafe { BorrowedPage::from_raw(page) }
+/// }
+///
+/// let mut vbox = VBox::<[u8; PAGE_SIZE]>::new_uninit(GFP_KERNEL)?;
+/// let page = borrow_page(&mut vbox);
+///
+/// // SAFETY: There is no concurrent read or write to this page.
+/// unsafe { page.fill_zero_raw(0, PAGE_SIZE)? };
+/// # Ok::<(), Error>(())
+/// ```
+///
+/// # Invariants
+///
+/// The borrowed underlying pointer to a `struct page` is valid for the entire lifetime `'a`.
+///
+/// [`VBox`]: kernel::alloc::VBox
+/// [`Vmalloc`]: kernel::alloc::allocator::Vmalloc
+pub struct BorrowedPage<'a>(ManuallyDrop<Page>, PhantomData<&'a Page>);
+
+impl<'a> BorrowedPage<'a> {
+ /// Constructs a [`BorrowedPage`] from a raw pointer to a `struct page`.
+ ///
+ /// # Safety
+ ///
+ /// - `ptr` must point to a valid `bindings::page`.
+ /// - `ptr` must remain valid for the entire lifetime `'a`.
+ pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: NonNull<bindings::page>) -> Self {
+ let page = Page { page: ptr };
+
+ // INVARIANT: The safety requirements guarantee that `ptr` is valid for the entire lifetime
+ // `'a`.
+ Self(ManuallyDrop::new(page), PhantomData)
+ }
+}
+
+impl<'a> Deref for BorrowedPage<'a> {
+ type Target = Page;
+
+ fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+ &self.0
+ }
+}
+
/// A pointer to a page that owns the page allocation.
///
/// # Invariants
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-08 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-08 18:10 [PATCH v3 0/7] BorrowedPage, IntoPageIter and VmallocPageIter Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-08 18:10 ` Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2025-08-08 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] rust: alloc: vmalloc: implement Vmalloc::to_page() Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-11 9:11 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-08 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] rust: alloc: implement VmallocPageIter Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-11 9:14 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-11 9:30 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-08 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] rust: page: define trait IntoPageIter Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-11 8:57 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-11 9:01 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-11 9:16 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-11 10:38 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-11 10:41 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-08 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] rust: alloc: kbox: implement IntoPageIter for VBox Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-08 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] rust: alloc: layout: implement ArrayLayout::size() Danilo Krummrich
2025-08-19 13:09 ` Daniel Almeida
2025-08-08 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] rust: alloc: kvec: implement IntoPageIter for VVec Danilo Krummrich
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