From: Alice Ryhl <alice@ryhl.io>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
aliceryhl@google.com, miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Rust abstractions for network device drivers
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:56:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <809bb749-365f-af06-c575-0c4b1a219035@ryhl.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230620084749.597f10b3@kernel.org>
On 6/20/23 17:47, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:08:26 +0200 Alice Ryhl wrote:
>>> The drop reason indicates why the packet was dropped. It should give
>>> some indication of what problem occurred which caused the drop. So
>>> ideally we don't want an anonymous drop. The C code does not enforce
>>> that, but it would be nice if the rust wrapper to dispose of an skb
>>> did enforce it.
>>
>> It sounds like a destructor with WARN_ON is the best approach right now.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I don't think we can enforce that the destructor is not
>> used today. That said, in the future it may be possible to implement a
>> linter that detects it - I know that there have already been experiments
>> with other custom lints for the kernel (e.g., enforcing that you don't
>> sleep while holding a spinlock).
>
> Can we do something to hide the destructor from the linker?
We could probably have the destructor call some method that the linker
wont be able to find, then mark the destructor with #[inline] so that
dead-code elimination removes it if unused.
(At least, in godbolt the inline marker was necessary for the destructor
to get removed when not used.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-13 4:53 [PATCH 0/5] Rust abstractions for network device drivers FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-13 4:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] rust: core " FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-15 13:01 ` Benno Lossin
2023-06-21 13:13 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-25 9:52 ` Benno Lossin
2023-06-25 14:27 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-25 17:06 ` Benno Lossin
2023-06-21 22:44 ` Boqun Feng
2023-06-22 0:19 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-13 4:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] rust: add support for ethernet operations FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-13 7:19 ` Ariel Miculas
2023-06-15 13:03 ` Benno Lossin
2023-06-15 13:44 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-13 4:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] rust: add support for get_stats64 in struct net_device_ops FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-13 4:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] rust: add methods for configure net_device FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-15 13:06 ` Benno Lossin
2023-06-13 4:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] samples: rust: add dummy network driver FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-15 13:08 ` Benno Lossin
2023-06-22 0:23 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-15 6:01 ` [PATCH 0/5] Rust abstractions for network device drivers Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 8:58 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-16 2:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 12:18 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-16 13:23 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-16 13:41 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-16 18:26 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 20:05 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-16 13:04 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-16 18:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 13:18 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-15 12:51 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-16 2:02 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 3:47 ` Richard Cochran
2023-06-16 17:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-16 13:02 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-16 13:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-16 13:48 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-16 14:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-16 16:01 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-19 11:27 ` Emilio Cobos Álvarez
2023-06-20 18:09 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-20 19:12 ` Andreas Hindborg (Samsung)
2023-06-21 12:30 ` Andreas Hindborg (Samsung)
2023-06-16 18:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 19:00 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-06-16 19:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 19:23 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-06-16 20:04 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-17 10:08 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-06-17 10:15 ` Greg KH
2023-06-19 8:50 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-19 9:46 ` Greg KH
2023-06-19 11:05 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2023-06-19 11:14 ` Greg KH
2023-06-19 13:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-20 11:16 ` David Laight
2023-06-20 15:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-20 16:56 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2023-06-20 17:44 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-20 17:55 ` Miguel Ojeda
2023-06-16 12:28 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-06-16 13:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-06-16 13:24 ` Alice Ryhl
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