Re: [GIT PULL] Rust pin-init for v7.1

Gary Guo
2026-04-07T14:49:55Z

On Tue Mar 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM BST, Benno Lossin wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
>
> This is a small one, various cleanups and small improvements with no
> major changes to users of pin-init.
>
> I summarized the changes in the my sync series [1]:
>
>> This cycle we have no big changes in pin-init. This series is a
>> collection of smaller improvements already merged upstream:
>>
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/105
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/110
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/101
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/102
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/108
>>
>> Next cycle might contain bigger changes, mainly support for tuple
>> structs. And I'm also thinking of already starting with integrating
>> zerocopy.
>>
>> While testing for the kernel, I noticed the following issue (already
>> fixed in the patch in this series):
>>
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/123
>>
>> This cycle we also had some unsoundness fixes that are already in rc4:
>>
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/111
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/117
>>
>> Lastly, there were some upstream-only changes:
>>
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/114
>> - https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/pull/109
>
> All commits have been in linux-next since Thursday last week.
>
> No conflicts expected.
>
> Please pull for v7.1 -- thanks!

Hi Miguel,

A gentle nudge about this PR.

Best,
Gary

>
> Cheers,
> Benno
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260319093542.3756606-1-lossin@kernel.org
>
> The following changes since commit f338e77383789c0cae23ca3d48adcc5e9e137e3c:
>
> Linux 7.0-rc4 (2026-03-15 13:52:05 -0700)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux.git tags/pin-init-v7.1
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 09808839c7aa6695ceff5cd822c18b0d9550184d:
>
> rust: pin-init: replace `addr_of_mut!` with `&raw mut` (2026-03-25 10:57:53 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> pin-init changes for v7.1
>
> Changed:
>
> - Replace the 'Zeroable' impls for 'Option<NonZero*>' with impls of
> 'ZeroableOption' for 'NonZero*'.
>
> - Improve feature gate handling for unstable features.
>
> - Declutter the documentation of implementations of 'Zeroable' for
> tuples.
>
> - Replace uses of 'addr_of[_mut]!' with '&raw [mut]'.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Antonio Hickey (1):
> rust: pin-init: replace `addr_of_mut!` with `&raw mut`
>
> Benno Lossin (1):
> rust: pin-init: properly document let binding workaround
>
> Gary Guo (2):
> rust: pin-init: build: simplify use of nightly features
> rust: pin-init: doc: de-clutter documentation with fake-variadics
>
> Hamdan-Khan (1):
> rust: pin-init: implement ZeroableOption for NonZero* integer types
>
> rust/Makefile | 4 +-
> rust/pin-init/README.md | 3 +-
> rust/pin-init/examples/big_struct_in_place.rs | 3 ++
> rust/pin-init/examples/linked_list.rs | 3 +-
> rust/pin-init/examples/mutex.rs | 3 +-
> rust/pin-init/examples/pthread_mutex.rs | 3 +-
> rust/pin-init/examples/static_init.rs | 3 +-
> rust/pin-init/internal/src/init.rs | 14 +++--
> rust/pin-init/internal/src/lib.rs | 2 +-
> rust/pin-init/src/lib.rs | 73 ++++++++++++++++++---------
> 10 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)