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From: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
To: "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>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	 Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
	Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>,  Edwin Peer <epeer@nvidia.com>,
	rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rust: transmute: implement FromBytes and AsBytes for ()
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:15:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251208-transmute_unit-v1-1-680c7386b5d9@nvidia.com> (raw)

This is useful when using types that may or may not be empty in generic
code relying on these traits. It is also safe because technically a
no-op.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
---
This is going to be useful in Nova's GSP message handling, as some
messages are empty and we need to explicitly use an empty structure for
them.

If accepted, I would like to merge it through `drm-rust-next` so Nova
code can start using this feature quickly.
---
 rust/kernel/transmute.rs | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/transmute.rs b/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
index be5dbf3829e2..8d78c81e3749 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ macro_rules! impl_frombytes {
 }
 
 impl_frombytes! {
+    // SAFETY: This type is empty and thus does not consume any data.
+    (),
+
     // SAFETY: All bit patterns are acceptable values of the types below.
     u8, u16, u32, u64, usize,
     i8, i16, i32, i64, isize,
@@ -230,6 +233,9 @@ macro_rules! impl_asbytes {
 }
 
 impl_asbytes! {
+    // SAFETY: This type is empty and thus returns an empty slice.
+    (),
+
     // SAFETY: Instances of the following types have no uninitialized portions.
     u8, u16, u32, u64, usize,
     i8, i16, i32, i64, isize,

---
base-commit: ba65a4e7120a616d9c592750d9147f6dcafedffa
change-id: 20251208-transmute_unit-78ab58ba9e6e

Best regards,
-- 
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>


             reply	other threads:[~2025-12-08  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-08  4:15 Alexandre Courbot [this message]
2025-12-11  1:14 ` [PATCH] rust: transmute: implement FromBytes and AsBytes for () Alice Ryhl

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