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We don't need locking until > > after the boot process is completed, and if there's a way we can dynamically > > "pin", where we hypothetically pin after the boot process completed, that > > might also work. Though I am not sure if that's something possible in > > Rust/rust4linux or if it makes sense. > > We can't partially initialize structures and then rely on accessing initialized > data only. Yet, that is exactly what the pin initialization sequence block does? The whole structure is not initialized yet you need access to already initialized fields. > This is one of the sources for memory bugs that Rust tries to solve. > You can wrap fields into Option types and initialize them later, which would > defer pin-init calls for the price of having Option fields around. I am not denying the need for pinning. Also regarding Option, just thinking out loud but if something is optional temporary, maybe needing a new type like TempOption, and promote it to a non-option type later, I am not seeing that as completely outside the world, if there is a legitimate usecase that needs to be Option temporarily, but not later, what's wrong with that? It is "Optional" for the timebeing, but not later. > However, we should never do such things. If there's the necessity to do > something like that, it indicates a design issue. > > In this case, there's no problem, we can use pin-init without any issues right > away, and should do so. > > pin-init is going to be an essential part of *every* Rust driver given that a > lot of the C infrastruture that we abstract requires pinned initialization, such > as locks and other synchronization primitives. To be honest, the pinning concept seems like an after thought for such a fundamental thing that we need, requiring additional macros, and bandaids on top of the language itself, to make it work for the kernel. I am not alone in that opinion. This should be first-class in a (systems) language, built into the language itself? I am talking about the whole pin initialization, accessing fields dances, etc. Also I am concerned that overusage of pinning defeats a lot of optimizations that Rust may be able to perform, especially forcefully pinning stuff that does not need all to be pinned (except to satisfy paranoia), thus generating suboptimal code gen. Not only does it require redesign and concerns over accesses to un-initialized fields, like we saw in the last 2-3 weeks, it also forces people into that when maybe there is a chance that underlying structures do not need to be pinned at all (for some usecases). These are just my opinions. thanks, - Joel