From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
To: "Filipe Xavier" <felipeaggger@gmail.com>,
"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>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: daniel.almeida@collabora.com, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
felipe_life@live.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
Filipe Xavier <felipeaggger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] rust: add new macro for common bitflag operations
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:49:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ecnrf3bj.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h5snf4yb.fsf@kernel.org>
Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> writes:
> Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> writes:
>
>> "Filipe Xavier" <felipeaggger@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> We have seen a proliferation of mod_whatever::foo::Flags
>>> being defined with essentially the same implementation
>>> for BitAnd, BitOr, contains and etc.
>>>
>>> This macro aims to bring a solution for this,
>>> allowing to generate these methods for user-defined structs.
>>> With some use cases in KMS and upcoming GPU drivers.
>>>
>>> Link: https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/288089-General/topic/We.20really.20need.20a.20common.20.60Flags.60.20type
>>> Suggested-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
>>> Suggested-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Filipe Xavier <felipeaggger@gmail.com>
>>
>> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
>>
>>
>> I think it would be useful to add:
>>
>> impl Flags {
>> unsafe from_raw(value: Repr) -> {
>> ...
>> }
>> }
>>
>> impl TryFrom<Repr> for Flag {
>> // Succeed if `value` is a valid `Flag` enum bit pattern.
>> }
>>
>> impl TryFrom<Repr> for Flags {
>> // Succeed if `value` is the logical OR of valid enum bit patterns.
>> }
>
> Also bitwise operations on the underlying type such as
>
> impl BitOrAssign<Flag> for u32 {
> ...
> }
>
> Not sure if that is possible with the orphan rule, but it would be nice.
> I was trying to
>
> lim.features |= request::Feature::Rotational;
>
> where `lim: bindings::queue_limits`.
Sorry for the spam. This works for me:
diff --git a/rust/kernel/impl_flags.rs b/rust/kernel/impl_flags.rs
index 0c50b8404fa79..e1143e6381d47 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/impl_flags.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/impl_flags.rs
@@ -102,6 +102,25 @@ fn from(value: $flags) -> Self {
}
}
+ impl ::core::convert::From<$flag> for $ty {
+ #[inline]
+ fn from(value: $flag) -> Self {
+ value as _
+ }
+ }
+
+ impl ::core::convert::TryFrom<$ty> for $flags {
+ type Error = ::kernel::error::Error;
+
+ fn try_from(value: $ty) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
+ match value & !$flags::all_bits() == 0 {
+ // SAFETY: We checked above that `value` is a valid bit pattern for `$flags`.
+ true => Ok(unsafe {::core::mem::transmute(value)}),
+ false => Err(::kernel::error::code::EINVAL),
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
impl ::core::ops::BitOr for $flags {
type Output = Self;
#[inline]
@@ -225,6 +244,22 @@ fn bitxor(self, rhs: $flag) -> Self::Output {
}
}
+ impl ::core::ops::BitOr<$flag> for $ty {
+ type Output = Self;
+
+ #[inline]
+ fn bitor(self, rhs: $flag) -> Self::Output {
+ self | <$flag as Into<Self>>::into(rhs)
+ }
+ }
+
+ impl ::core::ops::BitOrAssign<$flag> for $ty {
+ #[inline]
+ fn bitor_assign(&mut self, rhs: $flag) {
+ *self = *self | <$flag as Into<Self>>::into(rhs)
+ }
+ }
+
impl $flags {
/// Returns an empty instance of `type` where no flags are set.
#[inline]
Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg
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2026-01-11 13:32 ` [PATCH v8] rust: add new macro for common bitflag operations Filipe Xavier
2026-01-11 20:06 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-01-11 21:47 ` Filipe Xavier
2026-01-15 12:09 ` Andreas Hindborg
2026-01-15 12:14 ` Andreas Hindborg
2026-01-15 12:49 ` Andreas Hindborg [this message]
2026-01-15 13:19 ` Gary Guo
2026-01-15 13:31 ` Andreas Hindborg
2026-01-15 13:45 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-01-15 19:03 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-01-15 19:13 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-01-16 8:38 ` Andreas Hindborg
2026-01-15 13:39 ` Daniel Almeida
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