Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Devres optimization with bound devices

[Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 04:00:26PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> This patch series implements a direct accessor for the data stored within
> a Devres container for cases where we can prove that we own a reference
> to a Device<Bound> (i.e. a bound device) of the same device that was used
> to create the corresponding Devres container.
> 
> Usually, when accessing the data stored within a Devres container, it is
> not clear whether the data has been revoked already due to the device
> being unbound and, hence, we have to try whether the access is possible
> and subsequently keep holding the RCU read lock for the duration of the
> access.
> 
> However, when we can prove that we hold a reference to Device<Bound>
> matching the device the Devres container has been created with, we can
> guarantee that the device is not unbound for the duration of the
> lifetime of the Device<Bound> reference and, hence, it is not possible
> for the data within the Devres container to be revoked.
> 
> Therefore, in this case, we can bypass the atomic check and the RCU read
> lock, which is a great optimization and simplification for drivers.
> 

Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>

You would need to, however, change the titles for patch #2 and #3
because there is no `Devres::access_with()` any more.

Regards,
Boqun

> The patches of this series are also available in [1].
> 
> [1] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=rust/devres
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - Revocable::access(): remvoe explicit lifetimes; don't refer to 'a in
>     the safety requirement
>   - Devres::access()
>     - rename Devres::access_with() to Devres::access()
>     - add missing '```' at the end of the example
>     - remove 's lifetime
>     - add # Errors section
> 
> Danilo Krummrich (3):
>   rust: revocable: implement Revocable::access()
>   rust: devres: implement Devres::access_with()
>   samples: rust: pci: take advantage of Devres::access_with()
> 
>  rust/kernel/devres.rs           | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/revocable.rs        | 12 +++++++++++
>  samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs | 12 +++++------
>  3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 3be746ebc1e6e32f499a65afe405df9030153a63
> -- 
> 2.49.0
>