From: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
To: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"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>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kwilczynski@kernel.org>
Cc: driver-core@lists.linux.dev, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com>, Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] rust: io: turn IoCapable into a functional trait
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:12:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202-io-v1-0-9bb2177d23be@nvidia.com> (raw)
`IoCapable<T>` is currently used as a marker trait to signal that the
methods of the `Io` trait corresponding to `T` have been overridden by
the implementor (the default implementations triggering a build-time
error).
This goes against the DRY principle and separates the signaling of the
capability from its implementation, making it possible to forget a step
while implementing a new `Io`.
Another undesirable side-effect is that it makes the implementation of
I/O backends boilerplate-y and convoluted: currently this is done using
two levels of imbricated macros that generate unsafe code.
This patchset fixes these issues by turning `IoCapable` into a
functional trait including the raw implementation of the I/O
accessors for `T` using unsafe methods that work with an arbitrary
address, and making the default methods of `Io` call into these
implementations after checking the bounds.
This makes overriding these accessors on all I/O backends unneeded,
resulting in a net -90 LoCs while avoiding a violation of the DRY
principle and reducing (and simplifying) the use of macros generating
unsafe code.
Patch 1 adds the `io_read` and `io_write` unsafe methods to `IoCapable`,
provides the required implementations for `Mmio` and `pci::ConfigSpace`,
and make the default I/O accessors of `Io` call into them instead of
failing.
Patches 2 to 4 get rid of the `_relaxed` variants we had in `Mmio`,
since these are not usable in code generic against `Io` and makes use of
the macros we want to remove. They are replaced by a `RelaxedMmio`
wrapper type that implements the required `IoCapable`s and is thus
usable in generic code.
Patches 5 and 6 remove the overloaded implementations of the `Io`
methods for `pci::ConfigSpace` and `Mmio`, respectively, while also
deleting the macros that have become unused.
There is more work coming on top of this patchset (notably the
`register!` macro with proper I/O), but I wanted to send this work first
as it stands on its own IMHO and is more digestible from a review
perspective.
The base for this patchset is `driver-core-testing`.
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
---
Alexandre Courbot (6):
rust: io: turn IoCapable into a functional trait
rust: io: mem: use non-relaxed I/O ops in examples
rust: io: provide Mmio relaxed ops through a wrapper type
rust: io: remove legacy relaxed accessors of Mmio
rust: pci: io: remove overloaded Io methods of ConfigSpace
rust: io: remove overloaded Io methods of Mmio
rust/kernel/io.rs | 435 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
rust/kernel/io/mem.rs | 10 +-
rust/kernel/pci/io.rs | 99 ++++--------
3 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 289b14592cefe95f7d0ef334873c12b96ce3824f
change-id: 20260202-io-81fd368f7565
Best regards,
--
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-02 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-02 8:12 Alexandre Courbot [this message]
2026-02-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 1/6] rust: io: turn IoCapable into a functional trait Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-04 14:57 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-02-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] rust: io: mem: use non-relaxed I/O ops in examples Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-04 15:00 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-02-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 3/6] rust: io: provide Mmio relaxed ops through a wrapper type Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-02 14:07 ` Gary Guo
2026-02-02 14:18 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-02-02 14:21 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-02-02 14:27 ` Gary Guo
2026-02-03 22:25 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 4/6] rust: io: remove legacy relaxed accessors of Mmio Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-04 15:19 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-02-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 5/6] rust: pci: io: remove overloaded Io methods of ConfigSpace Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-04 15:24 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-02-02 8:13 ` [PATCH 6/6] rust: io: remove overloaded Io methods of Mmio Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-04 15:58 ` Daniel Almeida
2026-02-04 10:37 ` [PATCH 0/6] rust: io: turn IoCapable into a functional trait Alice Ryhl
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