From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: "Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Matthew Maurer" <mmaurer@google.com>,
"Lee Jones" <lee@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Rust support for `struct iov_iter`
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 13:23:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025090657-laboring-entrap-e323@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250822-iov-iter-v5-0-6ce4819c2977@google.com>
On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 08:42:31AM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> This series adds support for the `struct iov_iter` type. This type
> represents an IO buffer for reading or writing, and can be configured
> for either direction of communication.
>
> In Rust, we define separate types for reading and writing. This will
> ensure that you cannot mix them up and e.g. call copy_from_iter in a
> read_iter syscall.
>
> To use the new abstractions, miscdevices are given new methods read_iter
> and write_iter that can be used to implement the read/write syscalls on
> a miscdevice. The miscdevice sample is updated to provide read/write
> operations.
>
> Intended for Greg's miscdevice tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> ---
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-06 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-22 8:42 [PATCH v5 0/5] Rust support for `struct iov_iter` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-22 8:42 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] rust: iov: add iov_iter abstractions for ITER_SOURCE Alice Ryhl
2025-08-22 8:42 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] rust: iov: add iov_iter abstractions for ITER_DEST Alice Ryhl
2025-08-22 8:42 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] rust: fs: add Kiocb struct Alice Ryhl
2025-08-22 8:42 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] rust: miscdevice: Provide additional abstractions for iov_iter and kiocb structures Alice Ryhl
2025-08-22 8:42 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] samples: rust_misc_device: Expand the sample to support read()ing from userspace Alice Ryhl
2025-09-06 11:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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