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From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
To: "David Rheinsberg" <david@readahead.eu>
Cc: "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
	rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	"Lorenzo Stoakes" <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	"Uladzislau Rezki" <urezki@gmail.com>,
	"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "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>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust/alloc: add Vec::into_boxed_slice()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:55:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DHCNQXCUUEDI.1NVFTYVFBMTE3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afe9ff28-573c-4760-a310-87d4561bff8d@app.fastmail.com>

On Thu Mar 26, 2026 at 11:45 AM CET, David Rheinsberg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2026, at 11:33 AM, Alice Ryhl wrote:
>> We currently say that you should provide the right length when freeing
>> an allocation, but this is going to violate that. You should probably
>> invoke realloc here, like stdlib does.

Ok, Alice was faster. :)

> `std` calls `shrink_to_fit()`. Should I add it as well? How about
> `shrink_to()`? I don't particularly need them, but I can expose them as well,
> given that I would have to implement those.

Let's stick to A::realloc(), that's the only thing we need to justify the safety
requirement. I don't want to rely on shrink_to() and shrink_to_fit() not doing
additional things we don't need for this conversion.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-26  9:56 [PATCH] rust/alloc: add Vec::into_boxed_slice() David Rheinsberg
2026-03-26 10:33 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-26 10:45   ` David Rheinsberg
2026-03-26 10:55     ` Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2026-03-26 10:53 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-26 12:20   ` David Rheinsberg
2026-03-26 12:40     ` Danilo Krummrich

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