From: Tiago Lam <tiagolam@gmail.com>
To: "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Wedson Almeida Filho" <wedsonaf@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@proton.me>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@samsung.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>, "Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
"Waiman Long" <longman@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] rust: sync: update integer types in CondVar
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:33:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80e69cc3-5ee2-48de-83a2-6e2b95f17121@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231216-rb-new-condvar-methods-v2-4-b05ab61e6d5b@google.com>
On 16/12/2023 15:31, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> Reduce the chances of compilation failures due to integer type
> mismatches in `CondVar`.
>
> When an integer is defined using a #define in C, bindgen doesn't know
> which integer type it is supposed to be, so it will just use `u32` by
> default (if it fits in an u32). Whenever the right type is something
> else, we insert a cast in Rust. However, this means that the code has a
> lot of extra casts, and sometimes the code will be missing casts if u32
> happens to be correct on the developer's machine, even though the type
> might be something else on a different platform.
>
> This patch updates all uses of such constants in
> `rust/kernel/sync/condvar.rs` to use constants defined with the right
> type. This allows us to remove various unnecessary casts, while also
> future-proofing for the case where `unsigned int != u32`.
>
> I wrote this patch at the suggestion of Benno in [1].
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nAEg-6vbtX72ZY3oirDhrSEf06TBWmMiTt73EklMzEAzN4FD4mF3TPEyAOxBZgZtjzoiaBYtYr3s8sa9wp1uYH9vEWRf2M-Lf4I0BY9rAgk=@proton.me/ [1]
> Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tiago Lam <tiagolam@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-18 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-16 15:31 [PATCH v2 0/4] Additional CondVar methods needed by Rust Binder Alice Ryhl
2023-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] rust: sync: add `CondVar::notify_sync` Alice Ryhl
2023-12-18 8:31 ` Tiago Lam
2023-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] rust: time: add msecs to jiffies conversion Alice Ryhl
2023-12-16 16:30 ` Martin Rodriguez Reboredo
2023-12-18 8:32 ` Tiago Lam
2023-12-18 17:43 ` Benno Lossin
2023-12-18 21:07 ` Boqun Feng
2024-01-04 13:53 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] rust: sync: add `CondVar::wait_timeout` Alice Ryhl
2023-12-16 16:37 ` Martin Rodriguez Reboredo
2023-12-18 8:32 ` Tiago Lam
2023-12-18 21:15 ` Boqun Feng
2024-01-04 13:48 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-12-20 11:31 ` Benno Lossin
2023-12-21 16:54 ` Boqun Feng
2024-01-04 13:49 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] rust: sync: update integer types in CondVar Alice Ryhl
2023-12-16 16:42 ` Martin Rodriguez Reboredo
2024-01-04 13:50 ` Alice Ryhl
2023-12-18 8:33 ` Tiago Lam [this message]
2023-12-18 17:45 ` Benno Lossin
2023-12-18 21:18 ` Boqun Feng
2024-01-04 13:54 ` Alice Ryhl
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