From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@pm.me>
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@proton.me>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Asahi Lina" <lina@asahilina.net>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:50:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z861yk1hRZUtLtLp@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250310-unique-ref-v6-1-1ff53558617e@pm.me>
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 08:49:43AM +0000, Oliver Mangold wrote:
> From: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
>
> By analogy to AlwaysRefCounted and ARef, an Ownable type is a (typically
> C FFI) type that *may* be owned by Rust, but need not be. Unlike
> AlwaysRefCounted, this mechanism expects the reference to be unique
> within Rust, and does not allow cloning.
>
> Conceptually, this is similar to a KBox<T>, except that it delegates
> resource management to the T instead of using a generic allocator.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
You can't send a patch by others without adding your own SoB.
Alice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-10 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-10 8:49 [PATCH v6 0/5] New trait OwnableRefCounted for ARef<->Owned conversion Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 8:49 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 9:50 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2025-03-10 8:49 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] rust: make Owned::into_raw() and Owned::from_raw() public Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 9:50 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-03-10 10:00 ` Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 10:32 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-03-10 10:44 ` Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 8:49 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] rust: rename AlwaysRefCounted to RefCounted Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] rust: kbuild: provide `RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND` symbol Oliver Mangold
2025-03-10 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] rust: adding OwnableRefCounted and SimpleOwnableRefCounted Oliver Mangold
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