Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] rust: Add irq abstraction, SpinLockIrq

[Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 04:49:12PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 14:31 -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, at 2:00 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 13 2024 at 14:43, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 09:06:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > But that makes `cv.wait()` not working, because interrtups would be
> > > > still disabled when schedule() is called.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm waiting for Lyude's new version (with lock_first(), and
> > > > unlock_last()) to see how we can resolve this. We may need to redesign
> > > > `CondVar::wait`.
> > > 
> > > Thinking more about this. I think there is a more general problem here.
> > > 
> > > Much of the rust effort today is trying to emulate the existing way how
> > > the C implementations work.
> > > 
> > > I think that's fundamentally wrong because a lot of the programming
> > > patterns in the kernel are fundamentally wrong in C as well. They are
> > > just proliferated technical debt.
> > > 
> > > What should be done is to look at it from the rust perspective in the
> > > first place: How should this stuff be implemented correctly?
> > > 
> > 
> > I totally agree. One of things that can help is handling nested interruption
> > disabling differently: we can do something similar as preemption disable,
> > i.e. using a percpu counter to record the level of interrupt disabling,
> > as a result, SpinLockIrq::lock() just increases the counter and return the
> > Guard, when the Guard drops the counter decreases. In this way, no matter
> > what’s the order of Guard dropping, we remain correctly on interrupt disable
> > states. I can implement a new set of local_irq_*() in this way and let Rust use
> > this. Thoughts?
> 
> I mean, I'm still working on upstreaming this so I am more then happy to do
> this :P.  This being said though, I actually don't think this approach is

Don't worry, I just want to send a POC for what I mean. You still need
to do the hard work ;-) And appreciate the previous hard work as well.

> right even for rust. I actually think the correctness enforcement we get with
> the IrqDisabled tokens is the way to go. It's not just about enable/disable,
> it's also about making sure that we don't allow Guards for interrupt-disabled
> spinlocks to exit said contexts. I don't see how we could reasonably implement
> this without using tokens and having a closure interface - and that's
> absolutely losing a benefit of rust. If we can check this stuff during compile
> time, we should.
> 

I think I can avoid the closure interface, but I might be missing
something. Let's see when I send the POC out ;-)

Regards,
Boqun

> > 
> > Regards,
> > Boqun
> > 
> > > Then you work from there and go the extra mile to create some creative
> > > workarounds at the abstraction level instead of trying to mimic the
> > > existing C nonsense.
> > > 
> > > Which in turn gives you a way cleaner pattern of implementing stuff in
> > > rust.
> > > 
> > > Stop worrying about mostly irrelevant low level details which are not
> > > relevant to the primary audience of rust adoption. We can worry about
> > > them when we replace the scheduler and the low level interrupt handling
> > > code ten years down the road.
> > > 
> > > Please focus on providing a sane and efficient programming environment
> > > to get actual stuff (drivers) into the rust domain.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > >         tglx
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
>  Lyude Paul (she/her)
>  Software Engineer at Red Hat
> 
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