From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
To: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
"Frederic Weisbecker" <frederic@kernel.org>,
"Neeraj Upadhyay" <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
"Uladzislau Rezki" <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Lai Jiangshan" <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>,
"FUJITA Tomonori" <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>,
"Dirk Behme" <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>,
"Dirk Behme" <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] rust: sync: atomic: Clarify the need of CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:05:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260120140503.62804-2-boqun.feng@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260120140503.62804-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Currently, since all the architectures that support Rust all have
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW selected, the helpers of atomic
load/store on i8 and i16 relies on CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW=y.
It's generally fine since most of architectures support that.
The plan for CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW=n architectures is adding
their (probably lock-based) atomic load/store for i8 and i16 as their
atomic_{read,set}() and atomic64_{read,set}() counterpart when they
plans to support Rust.
Hence use a statis_assert!() to check this and remind the future us the
need of the helpers. This is more clear than the #[cfg] on impl blocks
of i8 and i16.
Suggested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
---
rust/kernel/sync/atomic/internal.rs | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/atomic/internal.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/atomic/internal.rs
index 0dac58bca2b3..ef516bcb02ee 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/atomic/internal.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/atomic/internal.rs
@@ -37,16 +37,23 @@ pub trait AtomicImpl: Sized + Send + Copy + private::Sealed {
type Delta;
}
-// The current helpers of load/store uses `{WRITE,READ}_ONCE()` hence the atomicity is only
-// guaranteed against read-modify-write operations if the architecture supports native atomic RmW.
-#[cfg(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW)]
+// The current helpers of load/store of atomic `i8` and `i16` use `{WRITE,READ}_ONCE()` hence the
+// atomicity is only guaranteed against read-modify-write operations if the architecture supports
+// native atomic RmW.
+//
+// In the future when a CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW=n architecture plans to support Rust, the
+// load/store helpers that guarantee atomicity against RmW operations (usually via a lock) need to
+// be added.
+crate::static_assert!(
+ cfg!(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW),
+ "The current implementation of atomic i8/i16/ptr relies on the architecure being \
+ ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW"
+);
+
impl AtomicImpl for i8 {
type Delta = Self;
}
-// The current helpers of load/store uses `{WRITE,READ}_ONCE()` hence the atomicity is only
-// guaranteed against read-modify-write operations if the architecture supports native atomic RmW.
-#[cfg(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW)]
impl AtomicImpl for i16 {
type Delta = Self;
}
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-20 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-20 14:05 [PATCH v2 0/2] rust: sync: Atomic pointer Boqun Feng
2026-01-20 14:05 ` Boqun Feng [this message]
2026-01-20 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] rust: sync: atomic: Clarify the need of CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW Gary Guo
2026-01-20 21:03 ` Boqun Feng
2026-01-20 22:45 ` Gary Guo
2026-01-20 14:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] rust: sync: atomic: Add Atomic<*{mut,const} T> support Boqun Feng
2026-01-23 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] rust: sync: Atomic pointer Boqun Feng
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