[PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Lyude Paul]

This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
adding sample code to show how the API is used. Unlike other types of
devices, we don't provide any hooks for device probe/removal - since these
are optional for the faux API and are unnecessary in rust.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@riseup.net>

---
V2:
* Check for NULL on return from device_create(), not a pointer error
* Rename Device to Registration to make its purpose more clear
* Drop platform device comment from crate docstring.
* Update MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS                      |  2 ++
 rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h  |  1 +
 rust/kernel/faux.rs              | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 rust/kernel/lib.rs               |  1 +
 samples/rust/Kconfig             | 10 ++++++
 samples/rust/Makefile            |  1 +
 samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs | 29 +++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rust/kernel/faux.rs
 create mode 100644 samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2f0dc98dab5fa..aa81e57b4c25c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -7119,8 +7119,10 @@ F:	rust/kernel/device.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/device_id.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/devres.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/driver.rs
+F:	rust/kernel/faux.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/platform.rs
 F:	samples/rust/rust_driver_platform.rs
+F:	samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
 
 DRIVERS FOR OMAP ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE SCALING (AVS)
 M:	Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
index 55354e4dec14e..f46cf3bb70695 100644
--- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
+++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/blk_types.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/cred.h>
+#include <linux/device/faux.h>
 #include <linux/errname.h>
 #include <linux/ethtool.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
diff --git a/rust/kernel/faux.rs b/rust/kernel/faux.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6c0a795b27477
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/kernel/faux.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+//! Abstractions for the faux bus.
+//!
+//! This crate provides bindings for working with faux devices in kernel modules.
+//!
+//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
+use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
+use core::ptr::{addr_of_mut, null, NonNull};
+
+/// The registration of a faux device.
+///
+/// This type represents the registration of a [`struct faux_device`]. When an instance of this type
+/// is dropped, its respective faux device will be unregistered from the system.
+///
+/// # Invariants
+///
+/// `self.0` always holds a valid pointer to an initialized and registered [`struct faux_device`].
+///
+/// [`struct faux_device`]: srctree/include/linux/device/faux.h
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Registration(NonNull<bindings::faux_device>);
+
+impl Registration {
+    /// Create and register a new faux device with the given name.
+    pub fn new(name: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
+        // SAFETY:
+        // - `name` is copied by this function into its own storage
+        // - `faux_ops` is safe to leave NULL according to the C API
+        let dev = unsafe { bindings::faux_device_create(name.as_char_ptr(), null()) };
+
+        // The above function will return either a valid device, or NULL on failure
+        Ok(Self(NonNull::new(dev).ok_or(ENOMEM)?))
+    }
+
+    fn as_raw(&self) -> *mut bindings::faux_device {
+        self.0.as_ptr()
+    }
+}
+
+impl AsRef<device::Device> for Registration {
+    fn as_ref(&self) -> &device::Device {
+        // SAFETY: The underlying `device` in `faux_device` is guaranteed by the C API to be
+        // a valid initialized `device`.
+        unsafe { device::Device::as_ref(addr_of_mut!((*self.as_raw()).dev)) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for Registration {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
+        unsafe { bindings::faux_device_destroy(self.as_raw()) }
+    }
+}
+
+// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
+unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
+
+// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
+unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
index 496ed32b0911a..398242f92a961 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 pub mod devres;
 pub mod driver;
 pub mod error;
+pub mod faux;
 #[cfg(CONFIG_RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS)]
 pub mod firmware;
 pub mod fs;
diff --git a/samples/rust/Kconfig b/samples/rust/Kconfig
index 918dbead2c0b4..3b6eae84b2977 100644
--- a/samples/rust/Kconfig
+++ b/samples/rust/Kconfig
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ config SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PLATFORM
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_FAUX
+	tristate "Faux Driver"
+	help
+	  This option builds the Rust Faux driver sample.
+
+	  To compile this as a module, choose M here:
+	  the module will be called rust_driver_faux.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config SAMPLE_RUST_HOSTPROGS
 	bool "Host programs"
 	help
diff --git a/samples/rust/Makefile b/samples/rust/Makefile
index 5a8ab0df0567c..0dbc6d90f1ef9 100644
--- a/samples/rust/Makefile
+++ b/samples/rust/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_MISC_DEVICE)		+= rust_misc_device.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_PRINT)			+= rust_print.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PCI)		+= rust_driver_pci.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PLATFORM)	+= rust_driver_platform.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_FAUX)		+= rust_driver_faux.o
 
 rust_print-y := rust_print_main.o rust_print_events.o
 
diff --git a/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..81ec465d52651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+//! Rust faux device sample.
+
+use kernel::{c_str, faux::*, prelude::*, Module};
+
+module! {
+    type: SampleModule,
+    name: "rust_faux_driver",
+    author: "Lyude Paul",
+    description: "Rust faux device sample",
+    license: "GPL",
+}
+
+struct SampleModule {
+    _dev: Registration,
+}
+
+impl Module for SampleModule {
+    fn init(_module: &'static ThisModule) -> Result<Self> {
+        pr_info!("Initialising Rust Faux Device Sample\n");
+
+        let dev = Registration::new(c_str!("rust-faux-sample-device"))?;
+
+        dev_info!(dev.as_ref(), "Hello from faux device!");
+
+        Ok(Self { _dev: dev })
+    }
+}

base-commit: 808eb958781e4ebb6e9c0962af2e856767e20f45
prerequisite-patch-id: f05ff916822e21eec452f9e5b8d11339c409265a
-- 
2.48.1

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> adding sample code to show how the API is used. Unlike other types of
> devices, we don't provide any hooks for device probe/removal - since these
> are optional for the faux API and are unnecessary in rust.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@riseup.net>
> 
> ---
> V2:
> * Check for NULL on return from device_create(), not a pointer error
> * Rename Device to Registration to make its purpose more clear
> * Drop platform device comment from crate docstring.
> * Update MAINTAINERS
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                      |  2 ++
>  rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h  |  1 +
>  rust/kernel/faux.rs              | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs               |  1 +
>  samples/rust/Kconfig             | 10 ++++++
>  samples/rust/Makefile            |  1 +
>  samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs | 29 +++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/faux.rs
>  create mode 100644 samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2f0dc98dab5fa..aa81e57b4c25c 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7119,8 +7119,10 @@ F:	rust/kernel/device.rs
>  F:	rust/kernel/device_id.rs
>  F:	rust/kernel/devres.rs
>  F:	rust/kernel/driver.rs
> +F:	rust/kernel/faux.rs
>  F:	rust/kernel/platform.rs
>  F:	samples/rust/rust_driver_platform.rs
> +F:	samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
>  
>  DRIVERS FOR OMAP ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE SCALING (AVS)
>  M:	Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
> diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> index 55354e4dec14e..f46cf3bb70695 100644
> --- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> +++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
>  #include <linux/blk_types.h>
>  #include <linux/blkdev.h>
>  #include <linux/cred.h>
> +#include <linux/device/faux.h>
>  #include <linux/errname.h>
>  #include <linux/ethtool.h>
>  #include <linux/file.h>
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/faux.rs b/rust/kernel/faux.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..6c0a795b27477
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/rust/kernel/faux.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +

No copyright line?  I think your company would object to that, but if
not, it's fine, just note that I'm required to ask about it.

> +//! Abstractions for the faux bus.
> +//!
> +//! This crate provides bindings for working with faux devices in kernel modules.
> +//!
> +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
> +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
> +use core::ptr::{addr_of_mut, null, NonNull};
> +
> +/// The registration of a faux device.
> +///
> +/// This type represents the registration of a [`struct faux_device`]. When an instance of this type
> +/// is dropped, its respective faux device will be unregistered from the system.
> +///
> +/// # Invariants
> +///
> +/// `self.0` always holds a valid pointer to an initialized and registered [`struct faux_device`].
> +///
> +/// [`struct faux_device`]: srctree/include/linux/device/faux.h
> +#[repr(transparent)]
> +pub struct Registration(NonNull<bindings::faux_device>);
> +
> +impl Registration {
> +    /// Create and register a new faux device with the given name.
> +    pub fn new(name: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
> +        // SAFETY:
> +        // - `name` is copied by this function into its own storage
> +        // - `faux_ops` is safe to leave NULL according to the C API
> +        let dev = unsafe { bindings::faux_device_create(name.as_char_ptr(), null()) };

I'm fine with null() here, but why wouldn't a rust binding want to allow
this?  What's unique here that make it this way, or is it just that the
current users you are thinking of don't care about it?


> +
> +        // The above function will return either a valid device, or NULL on failure
> +        Ok(Self(NonNull::new(dev).ok_or(ENOMEM)?))

ENODEV please, that's what I used for other return errors in drivers
when NULL was returned here.


> +    }
> +
> +    fn as_raw(&self) -> *mut bindings::faux_device {
> +        self.0.as_ptr()
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +impl AsRef<device::Device> for Registration {
> +    fn as_ref(&self) -> &device::Device {
> +        // SAFETY: The underlying `device` in `faux_device` is guaranteed by the C API to be
> +        // a valid initialized `device`.
> +        unsafe { device::Device::as_ref(addr_of_mut!((*self.as_raw()).dev)) }

Just curious, this is returning an incremented "struct device" to the
caller, right?  And then when it goes out of scope it will have the
reference decremented?  And do you need a wrapper in C to get to ".dev"
of the faux_device structure or are you ok doing it like this?

> +    }
> +}
> +
> +impl Drop for Registration {
> +    fn drop(&mut self) {
> +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
> +        unsafe { bindings::faux_device_destroy(self.as_raw()) }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
> +
> +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> index 496ed32b0911a..398242f92a961 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
>  pub mod devres;
>  pub mod driver;
>  pub mod error;
> +pub mod faux;
>  #[cfg(CONFIG_RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS)]
>  pub mod firmware;
>  pub mod fs;
> diff --git a/samples/rust/Kconfig b/samples/rust/Kconfig
> index 918dbead2c0b4..3b6eae84b2977 100644
> --- a/samples/rust/Kconfig
> +++ b/samples/rust/Kconfig
> @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ config SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PLATFORM
>  
>  	  If unsure, say N.
>  
> +config SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_FAUX
> +	tristate "Faux Driver"
> +	help
> +	  This option builds the Rust Faux driver sample.
> +
> +	  To compile this as a module, choose M here:
> +	  the module will be called rust_driver_faux.
> +
> +	  If unsure, say N.
> +
>  config SAMPLE_RUST_HOSTPROGS
>  	bool "Host programs"
>  	help
> diff --git a/samples/rust/Makefile b/samples/rust/Makefile
> index 5a8ab0df0567c..0dbc6d90f1ef9 100644
> --- a/samples/rust/Makefile
> +++ b/samples/rust/Makefile
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_MISC_DEVICE)		+= rust_misc_device.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_PRINT)			+= rust_print.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PCI)		+= rust_driver_pci.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PLATFORM)	+= rust_driver_platform.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_FAUX)		+= rust_driver_faux.o
>  
>  rust_print-y := rust_print_main.o rust_print_events.o
>  
> diff --git a/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..81ec465d52651
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +

Again, copyright line?

And above you have:
	// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

Which I know is identical to the one you list here, but in the same
commit you might want to be consistent :)



> +//! Rust faux device sample.
> +
> +use kernel::{c_str, faux::*, prelude::*, Module};
> +
> +module! {
> +    type: SampleModule,
> +    name: "rust_faux_driver",
> +    author: "Lyude Paul",
> +    description: "Rust faux device sample",
> +    license: "GPL",
> +}
> +
> +struct SampleModule {
> +    _dev: Registration,
> +}
> +
> +impl Module for SampleModule {
> +    fn init(_module: &'static ThisModule) -> Result<Self> {
> +        pr_info!("Initialising Rust Faux Device Sample\n");
> +
> +        let dev = Registration::new(c_str!("rust-faux-sample-device"))?;
> +
> +        dev_info!(dev.as_ref(), "Hello from faux device!");

Missing "\n"?

Anyway, just tiny nits, overall this looks great.  I'll be glad to apply
it to my tree when I get a version of the faux_device code merged there.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Alice Ryhl]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> > adding sample code to show how the API is used. Unlike other types of
> > devices, we don't provide any hooks for device probe/removal - since these
> > are optional for the faux API and are unnecessary in rust.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@riseup.net>

> > +impl AsRef<device::Device> for Registration {
> > +    fn as_ref(&self) -> &device::Device {
> > +        // SAFETY: The underlying `device` in `faux_device` is guaranteed by the C API to be
> > +        // a valid initialized `device`.
> > +        unsafe { device::Device::as_ref(addr_of_mut!((*self.as_raw()).dev)) }
>
> Just curious, this is returning an incremented "struct device" to the
> caller, right?  And then when it goes out of scope it will have the
> reference decremented?  And do you need a wrapper in C to get to ".dev"
> of the faux_device structure or are you ok doing it like this?

This uses the &_ pointer type which does not involve any refcount
increments or decrements. What you describe only happens if the
ARef<_> pointer type is used instead.

Safety is ensured by the borrow checker that fails compilation if the
returned reference is used after the Registration object is destroyed
- i.e. it's assumed that the value is safe to access without refcount
increments as long as the Registration is still alive.

Alice

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with

s/crate/module

(also in the module description)

> +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
> +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};

Newline between.

> +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.

Markdown.

> +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
> +
> +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}

Perhaps some extra notes here would be useful, e.g. is it documented
to be so? Especially since faux is being added now, it may make sense
to e.g. take the chance to work on mentioning this on the C side.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:42:41PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> 
> s/crate/module
> 
> (also in the module description)
> 
> > +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
> > +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
> 
> Newline between.
> 
> > +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
> 
> Markdown.
> 
> > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
> > +
> > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
> 
> Perhaps some extra notes here would be useful, e.g. is it documented
> to be so? Especially since faux is being added now, it may make sense
> to e.g. take the chance to work on mentioning this on the C side.

How can or should I mention this on the C side?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Danilo Krummrich]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 10:25:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > +
> > +/// The registration of a faux device.
> > +///
> > +/// This type represents the registration of a [`struct faux_device`]. When an instance of this type
> > +/// is dropped, its respective faux device will be unregistered from the system.
> > +///
> > +/// # Invariants
> > +///
> > +/// `self.0` always holds a valid pointer to an initialized and registered [`struct faux_device`].
> > +///
> > +/// [`struct faux_device`]: srctree/include/linux/device/faux.h
> > +#[repr(transparent)]
> > +pub struct Registration(NonNull<bindings::faux_device>);
> > +
> > +impl Registration {
> > +    /// Create and register a new faux device with the given name.
> > +    pub fn new(name: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
> > +        // SAFETY:
> > +        // - `name` is copied by this function into its own storage
> > +        // - `faux_ops` is safe to leave NULL according to the C API
> > +        let dev = unsafe { bindings::faux_device_create(name.as_char_ptr(), null()) };
> 
> I'm fine with null() here, but why wouldn't a rust binding want to allow
> this?  What's unique here that make it this way, or is it just that the
> current users you are thinking of don't care about it?

This is what I meant when I mentioned allowing NULL for the faux_device_ops
allows us to simplify the Rust abstraction quite a bit.

Having probe() and remove() doesn't do a lot for us in this case in Rust other
than needing a separate faux::Driver trait with a corresponding faux::Adapter
implementation to handle those callbacks. It'd be an unnecessary indirection.

Do you see any advantage going through probe()?

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 01:17:45PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 10:25:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > +
> > > +/// The registration of a faux device.
> > > +///
> > > +/// This type represents the registration of a [`struct faux_device`]. When an instance of this type
> > > +/// is dropped, its respective faux device will be unregistered from the system.
> > > +///
> > > +/// # Invariants
> > > +///
> > > +/// `self.0` always holds a valid pointer to an initialized and registered [`struct faux_device`].
> > > +///
> > > +/// [`struct faux_device`]: srctree/include/linux/device/faux.h
> > > +#[repr(transparent)]
> > > +pub struct Registration(NonNull<bindings::faux_device>);
> > > +
> > > +impl Registration {
> > > +    /// Create and register a new faux device with the given name.
> > > +    pub fn new(name: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
> > > +        // SAFETY:
> > > +        // - `name` is copied by this function into its own storage
> > > +        // - `faux_ops` is safe to leave NULL according to the C API
> > > +        let dev = unsafe { bindings::faux_device_create(name.as_char_ptr(), null()) };
> > 
> > I'm fine with null() here, but why wouldn't a rust binding want to allow
> > this?  What's unique here that make it this way, or is it just that the
> > current users you are thinking of don't care about it?
> 
> This is what I meant when I mentioned allowing NULL for the faux_device_ops
> allows us to simplify the Rust abstraction quite a bit.
> 
> Having probe() and remove() doesn't do a lot for us in this case in Rust other
> than needing a separate faux::Driver trait with a corresponding faux::Adapter
> implementation to handle those callbacks. It'd be an unnecessary indirection.
> 
> Do you see any advantage going through probe()?

Only reason I implemented it was that we have a real user of it in the
kernel that needed it, the regulator dummy driver.  Odds are we could
rewrite the C code to not need it, but for now let's leave it.

If over time, no one else actually needs it, I'll refactor and remove
the callbacks entirely after more of the tree is moved to the faux code.

If you all don't need the callback, wonderful, I'll not complain :)

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> > > adding sample code to show how the API is used. Unlike other types of
> > > devices, we don't provide any hooks for device probe/removal - since these
> > > are optional for the faux API and are unnecessary in rust.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@riseup.net>
> 
> > > +impl AsRef<device::Device> for Registration {
> > > +    fn as_ref(&self) -> &device::Device {
> > > +        // SAFETY: The underlying `device` in `faux_device` is guaranteed by the C API to be
> > > +        // a valid initialized `device`.
> > > +        unsafe { device::Device::as_ref(addr_of_mut!((*self.as_raw()).dev)) }
> >
> > Just curious, this is returning an incremented "struct device" to the
> > caller, right?  And then when it goes out of scope it will have the
> > reference decremented?  And do you need a wrapper in C to get to ".dev"
> > of the faux_device structure or are you ok doing it like this?
> 
> This uses the &_ pointer type which does not involve any refcount
> increments or decrements. What you describe only happens if the
> ARef<_> pointer type is used instead.
> 
> Safety is ensured by the borrow checker that fails compilation if the
> returned reference is used after the Registration object is destroyed
> - i.e. it's assumed that the value is safe to access without refcount
> increments as long as the Registration is still alive.

Thanks for the explanation, my rust-foo is very very very basic, so
much appreciated.

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Danilo Krummrich]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
>
> +/// The registration of a faux device.
> +///
> +/// This type represents the registration of a [`struct faux_device`]. When an instance of this type
> +/// is dropped, its respective faux device will be unregistered from the system.
> +///
> +/// # Invariants
> +///
> +/// `self.0` always holds a valid pointer to an initialized and registered [`struct faux_device`].
> +///
> +/// [`struct faux_device`]: srctree/include/linux/device/faux.h
> +#[repr(transparent)]
> +pub struct Registration(NonNull<bindings::faux_device>);
> +
> +impl Registration {
> +    /// Create and register a new faux device with the given name.
> +    pub fn new(name: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
> +        // SAFETY:
> +        // - `name` is copied by this function into its own storage
> +        // - `faux_ops` is safe to leave NULL according to the C API
> +        let dev = unsafe { bindings::faux_device_create(name.as_char_ptr(), null()) };
> +
> +        // The above function will return either a valid device, or NULL on failure
> +        Ok(Self(NonNull::new(dev).ok_or(ENOMEM)?))

Since the type has an "Invariants" section, you need to add "INVARIANT:" to this
comment.

> +    }

...

> diff --git a/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..81ec465d52651
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +//! Rust faux device sample.
> +
> +use kernel::{c_str, faux::*, prelude::*, Module};
> +
> +module! {
> +    type: SampleModule,
> +    name: "rust_faux_driver",
> +    author: "Lyude Paul",
> +    description: "Rust faux device sample",
> +    license: "GPL",
> +}
> +
> +struct SampleModule {
> +    _dev: Registration,

Probably forgot to change this to "_reg" or similar.

Also, maybe faux::Registration here and below, personally I tend to find it a
bit more obvious. But of course totally up to you.

> +}
> +
> +impl Module for SampleModule {
> +    fn init(_module: &'static ThisModule) -> Result<Self> {
> +        pr_info!("Initialising Rust Faux Device Sample\n");
> +
> +        let dev = Registration::new(c_str!("rust-faux-sample-device"))?;
> +
> +        dev_info!(dev.as_ref(), "Hello from faux device!");
> +
> +        Ok(Self { _dev: dev })
> +    }
> +}

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 13:16 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:42:41PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> > 
> > s/crate/module
> > 
> > (also in the module description)
> > 
> > > +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
> > > +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
> > 
> > Newline between.
> > 
> > > +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
> > 
> > Markdown.
> > 
> > > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > > +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
> > > +
> > > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > > +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
> > 
> > Perhaps some extra notes here would be useful, e.g. is it documented
> > to be so? Especially since faux is being added now, it may make sense
> > to e.g. take the chance to work on mentioning this on the C side.
> 
> How can or should I mention this on the C side?

This is a very good question :), especially because it turns out I actually
think this function is not thread-safe! Though I don't think that's actually
much of a problem for Send/Sync here:

So - my original assumption was that since faux_device_destroy() just wraps
around device_del() and put_device() we'd get thread safety. put_device() is
thread-safe, but on closer inspection I don't see that device_del() is. It
_can_ be called from any thread, but only so long as there is a guarantee it's
called exactly once. I think that's fine both for C and rust, but it
definitely warrants a more descriptive SAFETY comment from me.

So for the C side of things I might actually add documentation to device_del()
for this that would look something like this:

   device_del() can be called from any thread, but provides no protection
   against multiple calls. It is up to the caller to ensure this function may
   only be called once for a given device.
   
And then I suppose we could refer back to device_del() in faux_device_destroy()'s
documentation if we want. For the rust side of thing the safety comment could
just be like this:

   // SAFETY: Our bindings ensure only one `Registration` can exist at a time,
   meaning faux_device_destroy() can only be called once for a given
   registration - fulfilling the driver core's requirements for thread-safety.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 12:42 +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
> 
> Markdown.

I'm curious, does using markdown actually make a difference here? To be
totally honest most of the time I've put markdown in safety comments it's been
out of habit rather than expecting it to do something!

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This is a very good question :), especially because it turns out I actually
> think this function is not thread-safe! Though I don't think that's actually
> much of a problem for Send/Sync here:
>
> So - my original assumption was that since faux_device_destroy() just wraps
> around device_del() and put_device() we'd get thread safety. put_device() is
> thread-safe, but on closer inspection I don't see that device_del() is. It
> _can_ be called from any thread, but only so long as there is a guarantee it's
> called exactly once. I think that's fine both for C and rust, but it
> definitely warrants a more descriptive SAFETY comment from me.
>
> So for the C side of things I might actually add documentation to device_del()
> for this that would look something like this:

Thanks for taking a look -- I am glad I asked (asking is easy... :)

> And then I suppose we could refer back to device_del() in faux_device_destroy()'s
> documentation if we want.

Yeah, the idea was that, since Greg welcomes tweaks on the C side,
then whatever guarantees we use from the C side, if they can be
documented, even better, and it makes it easy to just refer to that
fact.

It should hopefully also make it slightly less likely to drop the
guarantee by mistake on the C side.

On the Rust side, we can even be explicit and say e.g. "..., as
guaranteed/documented by the C API".

Cheers,
Miguel

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious, does using markdown actually make a difference here? To be
> totally honest most of the time I've put markdown in safety comments it's been
> out of habit rather than expecting it to do something!

No, currently it doesn't. However, we do it to make the style
("rules") easier to remember and to keep it consistent with the rest
of the comments -- so exactly what you say is the goal, i.e. that we
do it "out of habit" since it is the same everywhere.

I could imagine, eventually, some editor or doc renderer taking
advantage of it (some people use ligatures or non-fixed-width fonts
too, so it wouldn't surprise me if some people could like that).

So, yeah, it is not a huge deal, and I don't expect that we will be
able to keep it consistent everywhere as Rust grows in the kernel, but
I hope at least most of it is kept consistent. Clippy (or I guess
AIs...) could help to spot this kind of thing in the future.

Cheers,
Miguel

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 05:10:29PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 13:16 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:42:41PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> > > 
> > > s/crate/module
> > > 
> > > (also in the module description)
> > > 
> > > > +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
> > > > +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
> > > 
> > > Newline between.
> > > 
> > > > +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
> > > 
> > > Markdown.
> > > 
> > > > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > > > +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
> > > > +
> > > > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > > > +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
> > > 
> > > Perhaps some extra notes here would be useful, e.g. is it documented
> > > to be so? Especially since faux is being added now, it may make sense
> > > to e.g. take the chance to work on mentioning this on the C side.
> > 
> > How can or should I mention this on the C side?
> 
> This is a very good question :), especially because it turns out I actually
> think this function is not thread-safe! Though I don't think that's actually
> much of a problem for Send/Sync here:
> 
> So - my original assumption was that since faux_device_destroy() just wraps
> around device_del() and put_device() we'd get thread safety. put_device() is
> thread-safe, but on closer inspection I don't see that device_del() is. It
> _can_ be called from any thread, but only so long as there is a guarantee it's
> called exactly once. I think that's fine both for C and rust, but it
> definitely warrants a more descriptive SAFETY comment from me.
> 
> So for the C side of things I might actually add documentation to device_del()
> for this that would look something like this:
> 
>    device_del() can be called from any thread, but provides no protection
>    against multiple calls. It is up to the caller to ensure this function may
>    only be called once for a given device.

You are correct in that device_del() has to be called only once, but the
idea of "thread safe" really isn't a thing in the kernel because we have
processes entering/exiting the code from all different places so things
better be "thread safe" almost everywhere, what matters to us as you
know is "context" due to sleep/locking issues.

So how about this wording instead:
	device_del() must be called from process context, not interrupt
	context, and also provides no protection against multiple calls
	for the same device.  It MUST be up to the caller to ensure that
	this function can only be called once for a given device.


> And then I suppose we could refer back to device_del() in faux_device_destroy()'s
> documentation if we want. For the rust side of thing the safety comment could
> just be like this:
> 
>    // SAFETY: Our bindings ensure only one `Registration` can exist at a time,
>    meaning faux_device_destroy() can only be called once for a given
>    registration - fulfilling the driver core's requirements for thread-safety.

Sure, but I think we are going to start getting "thread" confusion over
time here, is this something we want to start thinking about or am I
just running into it for the first time here?  I know it's a userspace
thing but not normally thought of in the kernel subsystems I'm familiar
with.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

[Benno Lossin]

On 09.02.25 16:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 05:10:29PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
>> On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 13:16 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:42:41PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
>>>>
>>>> s/crate/module
>>>>
>>>> (also in the module description)
>>>>
>>>>> +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
>>>>> +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
>>>>
>>>> Newline between.
>>>>
>>>>> +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
>>>>
>>>> Markdown.
>>>>
>>>>> +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
>>>>> +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
>>>>> +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps some extra notes here would be useful, e.g. is it documented
>>>> to be so? Especially since faux is being added now, it may make sense
>>>> to e.g. take the chance to work on mentioning this on the C side.
>>>
>>> How can or should I mention this on the C side?
>>
>> This is a very good question :), especially because it turns out I actually
>> think this function is not thread-safe! Though I don't think that's actually
>> much of a problem for Send/Sync here:
>>
>> So - my original assumption was that since faux_device_destroy() just wraps
>> around device_del() and put_device() we'd get thread safety. put_device() is
>> thread-safe, but on closer inspection I don't see that device_del() is. It
>> _can_ be called from any thread, but only so long as there is a guarantee it's
>> called exactly once. I think that's fine both for C and rust, but it
>> definitely warrants a more descriptive SAFETY comment from me.
>>
>> So for the C side of things I might actually add documentation to device_del()
>> for this that would look something like this:
>>
>>    device_del() can be called from any thread, but provides no protection
>>    against multiple calls. It is up to the caller to ensure this function may
>>    only be called once for a given device.
> 
> You are correct in that device_del() has to be called only once, but the
> idea of "thread safe" really isn't a thing in the kernel because we have
> processes entering/exiting the code from all different places so things
> better be "thread safe" almost everywhere, what matters to us as you
> know is "context" due to sleep/locking issues.

The "everything needs to be thread safe" mantra makes a lot of sense for
C, since there it will blow up in your face very quickly if you make a
mistake (and crucially, I can imagine a lot of nasty bugs that only
show themselves once another change is made years later). But with Rust,
we can let the compiler enforce the rules and thus allow more efficient
constructs in places where we know that the object only stays on one
"thread".
Also, there are several concepts in C that are associated with a type in
Rust that are inherently thread-unsafe. For example RCU: you're not
allowed to take the RCU lock and then context-switch to another "thread"
(or whatever the right term is) and unlock RCU there. In Rust, we would
model that with a guard object that you're not allowed to send to
another thread. (if you tried to do it, you would get a compiler error)
The same is true for locking a mutex (I haven't been in the loop w.r.t.
the C lock guards, AFAIK they exist and would have the same problem, so
after locking, you're not allowed to move it to another thread (if that
is even possible with how they are implemented)) and having a pointer to
an object that one doesn't own a reference count to (I imagine that that
rarely happens, but in Rust you're allowed to do that as long as there
is some synchronization that guarantees that another thread still holds
a refcount).

> So how about this wording instead:
> 	device_del() must be called from process context, not interrupt
> 	context, and also provides no protection against multiple calls
> 	for the same device.  It MUST be up to the caller to ensure that
> 	this function can only be called once for a given device.
> 
> 
>> And then I suppose we could refer back to device_del() in faux_device_destroy()'s
>> documentation if we want. For the rust side of thing the safety comment could
>> just be like this:
>>
>>    // SAFETY: Our bindings ensure only one `Registration` can exist at a time,
>>    meaning faux_device_destroy() can only be called once for a given
>>    registration - fulfilling the driver core's requirements for thread-safety.
> 
> Sure, but I think we are going to start getting "thread" confusion over
> time here, is this something we want to start thinking about or am I
> just running into it for the first time here?  I know it's a userspace
> thing but not normally thought of in the kernel subsystems I'm familiar
> with.

This has come up in several past discussions, including the confusion
around the terminology. I'll take this as an opportunity to clear things
up and explain the Rust terminology in a bit more detail. If you're
already up to speed, others will surely benefit from this.

I also have some confusion about what your terms are and what they mean,
so it would be great if you either have a pointer or a quick overview +
explanation (or someone else of course).

In the following I will continue to use "thread", because that's what I
am used to. "Thread" to me means a different execution context in the
abstract machine: it has a function call stack, local variables and
executes code instructions one after the other. Any execution that does
not infinitely starve a thread and upholds synchronization primitives is
a valid one for the abstract machine. So in particular when not using
synchronization between threads, the program can behave
non-deterministically.

So we are doing all of this business solely for the purpose of keeping
our programs deterministic. (which is a great property :)



In Rust terms, we have two traits `Send` and `Sync` that -- at least in
user space -- govern whether an object can be sent (`Send`) or shared
(`Sync`) between threads. "Shared" in this context just means that
you're allowed to send shared references to other threads. So `T: Sync`
is just a short way of saying `&T: Send`. Sending a value to another
thread means giving up ownership of it and moving it to that other
thread [^a] (most of the time in the form of moving a pointer to the
value there). When talking about thread-safety, one can mean one or the
other, or both (which is a bit annoying and the reason for my preference
for saying "this type is not `Send`" instead of saying "it's not thread
safe").

This "special" meaning of these traits is not really special at all.
They are just normal traits [^b] and their meaning comes from their
usage as bounds for generics. For example, in std when spawning a new
thread, one can only give it ownership of data that implements `Send`
[1]. This also holds for any other process of moving data between
threads such as channels or shareable smart pointers.
Importantly, in the kernel, we can shape our own meaning of `Send` and
`Sync` (at least to a degree, as there are some constraints that core
gives us), since it only depends on how the bounds of them are used. We
even could introduce new traits that have different meaning such as "can
be shared with this other context" while `Send` still means "can be
shared with any other context". But such an addition should be done very
carefully, as it's a huge pain if we later find out we would like to
change it, as it infects everything.



Now to give some examples and further explain the meaning of `Send` and
`Sync` in user-space. I will start off with a possibly surprising fact:
there are types that are `Sync` but `!Send` and vice versa. For the
first case, there is the `MutexGuard` [2] from std. But also the `Guard`
[3] type from the kernel crate. This is because, unlocking a user-space
mutex and a kernel lock type respectively is not possible from a
different thread than where it was locked. However, accessing the data
behind such a lock in a shared manner *is* possible (of course only if
that other thread knows that the first one still holds the lock and
isn't writing to the data), thus it still is `Sync`.
For the flipped case (`Send` but `!Sync`) there are -- to Rust
programmers well-known -- cell types, but they have little to no
counterpart in C, so I present a different example: the `Receiver` [4]
of the multiple-producer-single-consumer channel of std. Since there is
only supposed to be one receiver thread, the receiver type cannot be
cloned and it must not be shared, hence it implements `!Sync`. But
you're still allowed to move the ownership of receiving into another
thread and thus that type is `Send`.

Another examples is `Rc<T>` [5], a non-atomically reference counted
smart pointer. It implements neither `Send` nor `Sync`. It must not be
`Send`, because if it were, then the non-atomicity of the reference
count would be a problem. It also must not be `Sync`, since one
increment the refcount using a shared reference and that is again a
problem. So if one knows that a value is only used by one thread, then
`Rc<T>` is a more performant option over `Arc<T>` (the atomic refcounted
smart pointer).



Now to discuss what `Send` and `Sync` (could) mean in the kernel. One
current usage that I already mentioned is that they prevent unlocking a
mutex on a different thread than where it was locked. I do not know what
"thread" would be in this case other than the abstract definition I gave
above. But I heard that interrupts might behave similarly to user-space
threads in that you're not allowed to release/lock a lock on one that
was/is locked/released in normal execution context on the same CPU (no
idea if this is actually true, I might be misremembering here).
Another location where we're also using `Send` already is the workqueue.
If you take a look at the `enqueue` [6] function, then you will notice
the `Send` type bound in the function signature. It ensures that
whatever values sent to the code executed in the workqueue have to be
`Send`.
Timers will be another example: if you look at the upcoming hrtimer
abstractions by Andreas [7], then you can find a `Sync` bound in the
`HrTimerPointer` trait. So timers will only have shared access to values
that can be shared between threads.

The safest approach (and IIRC the one that we're currently pursuing) to
the meaning of `Send` and `Sync` is to just be very strict about what is
considered the same thread. That also allows us to always use `Send` and
`Sync` in cases where we're unsure if a value should be allowed to be
shared with/moved into another context. This is not going to result in
any memory issues, as we are essentially forbidding everything except
the most obvious things that are OK, but it might lead to missing
functionality/pain when implementing something.
I don't believe that there will be many thread definition where we
decide that they don't constitute a different "thread" in the sense of
`Send`/`Sync`, but that's just my intuition. Maybe I am wrong and there
is something that could technically be considered a different thread,
but it doesn't make sense to e.g. forbid moving a mutex there, since
it's fine.

Lastly, I want to try to bikeshed the name "thread", as clearly, we're
missing a proper term here. I have seen some people use CPU, execution
context and others that I forgot, but I never heard one that was as
satisfactory as I find "thread". At least that's my user-space
perspective, since to you "thread" could mean kernel-thread or
user-space-thread (and maybe more?). I don't like CPU, since interrupts
might happen on the same CPU, but would have to be considered a
different thread. And execution context also seems wrong, since I
associate that with the state of preemption, so atomic context.
Maybe "abstract thread" fits the concept best, but I don't like the fact
that it still contains the word thread.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.spawn.html
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.MutexGuard.html
[3]: https://rust.docs.kernel.org/kernel/sync/lock/struct.Guard.html
[4]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/mpsc/struct.Receiver.html
[5]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html
[6]: https://rust.docs.kernel.org/kernel/workqueue/struct.Queue.html#method.enqueue
[7]: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250203-hrtimer-v3-v6-12-rc2-v7-0-189144725399@kernel.org/

[^a]: Note that references (i.e. `&T`) implement `Copy`, so they are
      automatically cloned and thus sending one to another thread
      doesn't entail giving up on it yourself.

[^b]: People knowledgable in Rust might pause here, since they still are
      special in a different sense, as they are auto traits. But that
      has nothing to do with their meaning, so one can just disregard
      that specialty.

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Cheers,
Benno