Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] implement ww_mutex abstraction for the Rust tree

["Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 09:41:43 -0300
Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com> wrote:

> Hi Onur,
> 
> > On 5 Aug 2025, at 06:08, Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 11:15:07 -0300
> > Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Btw, I can also try to implement a proof of concept, so long as
> >> people agree that this approach makes sense.
> > 
> > It's not necessary to provide a full P.o.C but a small
> > demonstration of the kind of ww_mutex API you would prefer would be
> > helpful. Seeing a few sample Rust use-cases (especially in
> > comparison to existing C implementations) would give a clearer
> > picture for me.
> > 
> > At the moment, the implementation is just a wrapper ([1]) around
> > the C ww_mutex with no additional functionality, mostly because we
> > don't have a solid consensus on the API design yet (we had some
> > ideas about Tuple based approach, but seems like that isn't going
> > to be useful for most of the ww_mutex users).
> > 
> > [1]: https://github.com/onur-ozkan/linux/commits/673e01a9c309c
> > 
> >> By the way, dri-devel seems to not be on cc? Added them now.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Onur
> > 
> 
> This topic is on my TODO for this week.
> 
> — Daniel

Awesome, thank you for doing it. :)

Regards,
Onur