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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] Introduce bitfield and move register macro to rust/kernel/
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:26:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DD7G18DF6PJ2.2E1N4DXGT83KL@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD7G0ERRKG3K.1AFE4FSLNBZCX@nvidia.com>
On Thu Oct 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM JST, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Tue Sep 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM JST, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> These patches extract and enhance the bitfield support in the register macro in
>> nova to define Rust structures with bitfields. It then moves out the bitfield
>> support into the kenrel crate and further enhances it. This is extremely useful
>> as it allows clean Rust structure definitions without requiring explicit masks
>> and shifts.
>
> The extraction and move in themselves (patches 1-4 and maybe the KUNIT
> one) look good to me. For the remainder, it will depend on whether the
> BoundedInt idea sticks or not as it changes the design in a way that
> makes most of these patches unneeded. In any case I think this can be
> worked on after the split and extraction.
>
> Patch 5 should probably be dropped as it has the potential to clear
> register fields that are useful to the hardware but have no entry in the
> `register!` definition, making read-update-write updates of registers
> unpredictable.
Ah, I forgot: please base the next revision on top of drm-rust-next as
we are likely to apply it there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-02 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-30 14:45 [PATCH v5 0/9] Introduce bitfield and move register macro to rust/kernel/ Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] nova-core: bitfield: Move bitfield-specific code from register! into new macro Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] nova-core: bitfield: Add support for different storage widths Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 17:18 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-10-02 1:17 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] nova-core: bitfield: Add support for custom visiblity Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] rust: Move register and bitfield macros out of Nova Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] rust: bitfield: Add a new() constructor and raw() accessor Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] rust: bitfield: Add KUNIT tests for bitfield Joel Fernandes
2025-10-02 1:41 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-02 2:16 ` Elle Rhumsaa
2025-10-02 2:51 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-02 3:35 ` Elle Rhumsaa
2025-10-03 15:23 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-10-04 0:38 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-04 16:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-10-06 16:40 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-10-06 19:50 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: bitfield: Use 'as' operator for setter type conversion Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] rust: bitfield: Add hardening for out of bounds access Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 18:03 ` Yury Norov
2025-09-30 22:06 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 14:45 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] rust: bitfield: Add hardening for undefined bits Joel Fernandes
2025-09-30 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] Introduce bitfield and move register macro to rust/kernel/ Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-02 1:24 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-02 1:26 ` Alexandre Courbot [this message]
2025-10-03 15:26 ` Joel Fernandes
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