[PATCH 0/3] rust: workqueue: add safe cancellation and status methods

Aakash Bollineni via B4 Relay
2026-04-02T03:23:49Z

This series modernizes the Rust workqueue infrastructure by adding
methods for status checking and safe cancellation. These capabilities
are essential for implementing safe driver teardown paths, such as in
'Drop' implementations or device removal, where background tasks must
be stopped before resources are freed.
This version (v2) addresses the feedback from Miguel Ojeda:
- The work has been split into a logical 3-patch series.
- Spurious changes (top-level .kunitconfig) have been removed.
- Initialization for DelayedWork is now handled via a robust C-helper
(INIT_DELAYED_WORK) to ensure correct timer function registration.
- Pointer arithmetic in the reclamation path has been simplified and
verified to be underflow-free.
Summary of changes:
1. Helpers: Adds C FFI wrappers for workqueue macros and robust
DelayedWork initialization.
2. Core API: Implements is_pending(), cancel(), and cancel_sync() with
guaranteed pointer reclamation and layout safety (#[repr(transparent)]).
3. Tests: Adds a comprehensive KUnit suite and a standalone stress-test
sample.
The implementation has been verified on x86_64 using KUnit (4/4 PASSED)
and confirmed to be race-free under high-load stress testing.
Changelog v1 -> v2:
- Split into a 3-patch series to separate helpers from API and tests.
- Replaced manual timer initialization with rust_helper_init_delayed_work.
- Fixed field offset arithmetic in container_of macro path.
- Expanded KUnit tests to cover DelayedWork specifically.
- Wrapped commit messages and cover letter to 75 columns.

Signed-off-by: Aakash Bollineni <aakash.bollineni@multicorewareinc.com>
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Aakash Bollineni (3):
rust: helpers: add workqueue helpers
rust: workqueue: add safe cancellation and status methods
rust: workqueue: add KUnit and sample stress tests

rust/helpers/workqueue.c | 34 +++
rust/kernel/workqueue.rs | 467 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
samples/rust/Makefile | 2 +
samples/rust/rust_workqueue_test.rs | 214 +++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 682 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
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base-commit: bf074eb6891be799174ff42e0051492681fdc045
change-id: 20260402-rust-next-19ba03aad3f4

Best regards,
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Aakash Bollineni <aakash.bollineni@multicorewareinc.com>