[PATCH 0/3] rust: Add irq abstraction, IrqSpinLock

[PATCH 0/3] rust: Add irq abstraction, IrqSpinLock

[Lyude Paul]

This adds a simple interface for disabling and enabling CPUs, along with
the ability to mark a function as expecting interrupts be disabled -
along with adding bindings for spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore().

Lyude Paul (3):
  rust: Introduce irq module
  rust: sync: Introduce LockContainer trait
  rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

 rust/helpers.c                    |  14 +++++
 rust/kernel/irq.rs                |  74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 rust/kernel/lib.rs                |   1 +
 rust/kernel/sync.rs               |   3 +-
 rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs          |  20 ++++++
 rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs     |  11 +++-
 7 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 rust/kernel/irq.rs

-- 
2.45.2

[PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Lyude Paul]

This introduces a module for dealing with interrupt-disabled contexts,
including the ability to enable and disable interrupts
(with_irqs_disabled()) - along with the ability to annotate functions as
expecting that IRQs are already disabled on the local CPU.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
---
 rust/helpers.c     | 14 +++++++++
 rust/kernel/irq.rs | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 rust/kernel/lib.rs |  1 +
 3 files changed, 89 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rust/kernel/irq.rs

diff --git a/rust/helpers.c b/rust/helpers.c
index 87ed0a5b60990..12ac32de820b5 100644
--- a/rust/helpers.c
+++ b/rust/helpers.c
@@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ void rust_helper_spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_spin_unlock);
 
+unsigned long rust_helper_local_irq_save(void) {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
+	return flags;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_save);
+
+void rust_helper_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags) {
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_restore);
+
 void rust_helper_init_wait(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry)
 {
 	init_wait(wq_entry);
diff --git a/rust/kernel/irq.rs b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8a540bd6123f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+//! Interrupt controls
+//!
+//! This module allows Rust code to control processor interrupts. [`with_irqs_disabled()`] may be
+//! used for nested disables of interrupts, whereas [`IrqDisabled`] can be used for annotating code
+//! that requires that interrupts already be disabled.
+
+use bindings;
+use core::marker::*;
+
+/// A guarantee that IRQs are disabled on this CPU
+///
+/// An [`IrqDisabled`] represents a guarantee that interrupts will remain disabled on the current CPU
+/// until the lifetime of the object ends. However, it does not disable or enable interrupts on its
+/// own - see [`with_irqs_disabled()`] for that.
+///
+/// This object has no cost at runtime (TODO: …except if whatever kernel compile-time option that
+/// would assert IRQs are enabled or not is enabled - in which case we should actually verify that
+/// they're enabled).
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// If you want to ensure that a function may only be invoked within contexts where interrupts are
+/// disabled, you can do so by requiring that a reference to this type be passed. You can also
+/// create this type using unsafe code in order to indicate that it's known that interrupts are
+/// already disabled on this CPU
+///
+/// ```
+/// use kernel::irq::{IrqDisabled, disable_irqs};
+///
+/// // Requiring interrupts be disabled to call a function
+/// fn dont_interrupt_me(_irq: &IrqDisabled<'_>) { }
+///
+/// // Disabling interrupts. They'll be re-enabled once this closure completes.
+/// disable_irqs(|irq| dont_interrupt_me(&irq));
+/// ```
+pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);
+
+impl<'a> IrqDisabled<'a> {
+    /// Create a new [`IrqDisabled`] without disabling interrupts
+    ///
+    /// If debug assertions are enabled, this function will check that interrupts are disabled.
+    /// Otherwise, it has no cost at runtime.
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// This function must only be called in contexts where it is already known that interrupts have
+    /// been disabled for the current CPU, as the user is making a promise that they will remain
+    /// disabled at least until this [`IrqDisabled`] is dropped.
+    pub unsafe fn new() -> Self {
+        Self(PhantomData)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Run the closure `cb` with interrupts disabled on the local CPU.
+///
+/// Interrupts will be re-enabled once the closure returns. If interrupts were already disabled on
+/// this CPU, this is a no-op.
+#[inline]
+pub fn with_irqs_disabled<T, F>(cb: F) -> T
+where
+    F: FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'_>) -> T,
+{
+    // SAFETY: FFI call with no special requirements
+    let flags = unsafe { bindings::local_irq_save() };
+
+    let ret = cb(IrqDisabled(PhantomData));
+
+    // SAFETY: `flags` comes from our previous call to local_irq_save
+    unsafe { bindings::local_irq_restore(flags) };
+
+    ret
+}
diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
index e6b7d3a80bbce..37835ccd51087 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 pub mod firmware;
 pub mod init;
 pub mod ioctl;
+pub mod irq;
 #[cfg(CONFIG_KUNIT)]
 pub mod kunit;
 #[cfg(CONFIG_NET)]
-- 
2.45.2

[PATCH 2/3] rust: sync: Introduce LockContainer trait

[Lyude Paul]

We want to be able to use spinlocks in no-interrupt contexts, but our
current `Lock` infrastructure doesn't allow for the ability to pass
arguments when acquiring a lock - meaning that there would be no way for us
to verify interrupts are disabled before granting a lock since we have
nowhere to pass an `IrqGuard`.

It doesn't particularly made sense for us to add the ability to pass such
an argument either: this would technically work, but then we would have to
pass empty units as arguments on all of the many locks that are not grabbed
under interrupts. As a result, we go with a slightly nicer solution:
introducing a trait for types which can contain a lock of a specific type:
LockContainer. This means we can still use locks implemented on top of
other lock types in types such as `LockedBy` - as we convert `LockedBy` to
begin using `LockContainer` internally and implement the trait for all
existing lock types.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
---
 rust/kernel/sync.rs           |  1 +
 rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs      | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs | 11 +++++++++--
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync.rs b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
index 0ab20975a3b5d..14a79ebbb42d5 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 pub use condvar::{new_condvar, CondVar, CondVarTimeoutResult};
 pub use lock::mutex::{new_mutex, Mutex};
 pub use lock::spinlock::{new_spinlock, SpinLock};
+pub use lock::LockContainer;
 pub use locked_by::LockedBy;
 
 /// Represents a lockdep class. It's a wrapper around C's `lock_class_key`.
diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
index f6c34ca4d819f..bbd0a7465cae3 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
@@ -195,3 +195,23 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn new(lock: &'a Lock<T, B>, state: B::GuardState) -> Self {
         }
     }
 }
+
+/// A trait implemented by any type which contains a [`Lock`] with a specific [`Backend`].
+pub trait LockContainer<T: ?Sized, B: Backend> {
+    /// Returns an immutable reference to the lock
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// Since this returns a reference to the contained [`Lock`] without going through the
+    /// [`LockContainer`] implementor, it cannot be guaranteed that it is safe to acquire
+    /// this lock. Thus the caller must promise not to attempt to use the returned immutable
+    /// reference to attempt to grab the underlying lock without ensuring whatever guarantees the
+    /// [`LockContainer`] implementor's interface enforces.
+    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &Lock<T, B>;
+}
+
+impl<T: ?Sized, B: Backend> LockContainer<T, B> for Lock<T, B> {
+    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &Lock<T, B> {
+        &self
+    }
+}
diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
index babc731bd5f62..d16d89fe74e0b 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
@@ -95,13 +95,20 @@ impl<T, U> LockedBy<T, U> {
     /// data becomes inaccessible; if another instance of the owner is allocated *on the same
     /// memory location*, the data becomes accessible again: none of this affects memory safety
     /// because in any case at most one thread (or CPU) can access the protected data at a time.
-    pub fn new<B: Backend>(owner: &Lock<U, B>, data: T) -> Self {
+    pub fn new<B, L>(owner: &L, data: T) -> Self
+    where
+        B: Backend,
+        L: super::LockContainer<U, B>,
+    {
         build_assert!(
             size_of::<Lock<U, B>>() > 0,
             "The lock type cannot be a ZST because it may be impossible to distinguish instances"
         );
         Self {
-            owner: owner.data.get(),
+            // SAFETY: We never directly acquire the lock through this reference, we simply use it
+            // to ensure that a `Guard` the user provides us to access this container's contents
+            // belongs to the same lock that owns this data
+            owner: unsafe { owner.get_lock_ref() }.data.get(),
             data: UnsafeCell::new(data),
         }
     }
-- 
2.45.2

[PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[Lyude Paul]

A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
---
 rust/kernel/sync.rs               |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync.rs b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
index 14a79ebbb42d5..d3e2e9cb0e120 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 pub use arc::{Arc, ArcBorrow, UniqueArc};
 pub use condvar::{new_condvar, CondVar, CondVarTimeoutResult};
 pub use lock::mutex::{new_mutex, Mutex};
-pub use lock::spinlock::{new_spinlock, SpinLock};
+pub use lock::spinlock::{new_irq_spinlock, new_spinlock, IrqSpinLock, SpinLock};
 pub use lock::LockContainer;
 pub use locked_by::LockedBy;
 
diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs
index ea5c5bc1ce12e..f63c75c19344f 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 //! A kernel spinlock.
 //!
 //! This module allows Rust code to use the kernel's `spinlock_t`.
+use core::marker::*;
+use kernel::{irq::*, prelude::*};
 
 /// Creates a [`SpinLock`] initialiser with the given name and a newly-created lock class.
 ///
@@ -115,3 +117,102 @@ unsafe fn unlock(ptr: *mut Self::State, _guard_state: &Self::GuardState) {
         unsafe { bindings::spin_unlock(ptr) }
     }
 }
+
+/// Creates a [`IrqSpinLock`] initialiser with the given name and a newly-created lock class.
+///
+/// It uses the name if one is given, otherwise it generates one based on the file name and line
+/// number.
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! new_irq_spinlock {
+    ($inner:expr $(, $name:literal)? $(,)?) => {
+        $crate::sync::IrqSpinLock::new(
+            $inner, $crate::optional_name!($($name)?), $crate::static_lock_class!())
+    };
+}
+pub use new_irq_spinlock;
+
+/// A spinlock that may be acquired when interrupts are disabled.
+///
+/// A version of [`SpinLock`] that can only be used in contexts where interrupts for the local CPU
+/// are disabled. It requires that the user acquiring the lock provide proof that interrupts are
+/// disabled through [`IrqDisabled`]
+///
+/// For more info, see [`SpinLock`].
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// The following example shows how to declare, allocate initialise and access a struct (`Example`)
+/// that contains an inner struct (`Inner`) that is protected by a spinlock.
+///
+/// ```
+/// use kernel::{
+///     sync::{new_irq_spinlock, IrqSpinLock},
+///     irq::{with_irqs_disabled, IrqDisabled}
+/// };
+///
+/// struct Inner {
+///     a: u32,
+///     b: u32,
+/// }
+///
+/// #[pin_data]
+/// struct Example {
+///     c: u32,
+///     #[pin]
+///     d: IrqSpinLock<Inner>,
+/// }
+///
+/// impl Example {
+///     fn new() -> impl PinInit<Self> {
+///         pin_init!(Self {
+///             c: 10,
+///             d <- new_irq_spinlock!(Inner { a: 20, b: 30 }),
+///         })
+///     }
+/// }
+///
+/// // Accessing an `Example` from a function that can only be called in no-irq contexts
+/// fn noirq_work(e: &Example, irq: &IrqDisabled<'_>) {
+///     assert_eq!(e.c, 10);
+///     assert_eq!(e.d.lock(&irq).a, 20);
+/// }
+///
+/// // Allocate a boxed `Example`
+/// let e = Box::pin_init(Example::new(), GFP_KERNEL)?;
+///
+/// // Accessing an `Example` from a context where IRQs may not be disabled already.
+/// let b = with_irqs_disabled(|irq| {
+///     noirq_work(&e, &irq);
+///     e.d.lock(&irq).b
+/// );
+/// assert_eq!(b, 30);
+/// # Ok::<(), Error>(())
+/// ```
+#[pin_data]
+pub struct IrqSpinLock<T> {
+    #[pin]
+    inner: SpinLock<T>,
+    #[pin]
+    _p: PhantomPinned,
+}
+
+impl<T> IrqSpinLock<T> {
+    /// Constructs a new IRQ spinlock initialiser
+    pub fn new(t: T, name: &'static CStr, key: &'static super::LockClassKey) -> impl PinInit<Self> {
+        pin_init!(Self {
+            inner <- SpinLock::new(t, name, key),
+            _p: PhantomPinned,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Acquires the lock and gives the caller access to the data protected by it
+    pub fn lock<'a>(&'a self, _irq: &'a IrqDisabled<'a>) -> super::Guard<'a, T, SpinLockBackend> {
+        self.inner.lock()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> super::LockContainer<T, SpinLockBackend> for IrqSpinLock<T> {
+    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &super::Lock<T, SpinLockBackend> {
+        &self.inner
+    }
+}
-- 
2.45.2

Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:50PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> +unsigned long rust_helper_local_irq_save(void) {

Nit, the '{' goes on the next line for a function declaration in C.
checkpatch.pl should have caught this, right?

> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +
> +	return flags;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_save);
> +
> +void rust_helper_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags) {

Same here.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:49PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> This adds a simple interface for disabling and enabling CPUs, along with
> the ability to mark a function as expecting interrupts be disabled -
> along with adding bindings for spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore().

Do you have some example code that actually uses this?  Without that,
it's hard, if not impossible, to review it to see how it works and if it
works properly.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Benno Lossin]

On 26.07.24 00:27, Lyude Paul wrote:
> This introduces a module for dealing with interrupt-disabled contexts,
> including the ability to enable and disable interrupts
> (with_irqs_disabled()) - along with the ability to annotate functions as
> expecting that IRQs are already disabled on the local CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> ---
>  rust/helpers.c     | 14 +++++++++
>  rust/kernel/irq.rs | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/irq.rs
> 
> diff --git a/rust/helpers.c b/rust/helpers.c
> index 87ed0a5b60990..12ac32de820b5 100644
> --- a/rust/helpers.c
> +++ b/rust/helpers.c
> @@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ void rust_helper_spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_spin_unlock);
> 
> +unsigned long rust_helper_local_irq_save(void) {
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +
> +	return flags;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_save);
> +
> +void rust_helper_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags) {
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_restore);
> +
>  void rust_helper_init_wait(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry)
>  {
>  	init_wait(wq_entry);
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/irq.rs b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..8a540bd6123f7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +//! Interrupt controls
> +//!
> +//! This module allows Rust code to control processor interrupts. [`with_irqs_disabled()`] may be
> +//! used for nested disables of interrupts, whereas [`IrqDisabled`] can be used for annotating code
> +//! that requires that interrupts already be disabled.
> +
> +use bindings;
> +use core::marker::*;
> +
> +/// A guarantee that IRQs are disabled on this CPU
> +///
> +/// An [`IrqDisabled`] represents a guarantee that interrupts will remain disabled on the current CPU
> +/// until the lifetime of the object ends. However, it does not disable or enable interrupts on its
> +/// own - see [`with_irqs_disabled()`] for that.
> +///
> +/// This object has no cost at runtime (TODO: …except if whatever kernel compile-time option that
> +/// would assert IRQs are enabled or not is enabled - in which case we should actually verify that
> +/// they're enabled).
> +///
> +/// # Examples
> +///
> +/// If you want to ensure that a function may only be invoked within contexts where interrupts are
> +/// disabled, you can do so by requiring that a reference to this type be passed. You can also
> +/// create this type using unsafe code in order to indicate that it's known that interrupts are
> +/// already disabled on this CPU
> +///
> +/// ```
> +/// use kernel::irq::{IrqDisabled, disable_irqs};
> +///
> +/// // Requiring interrupts be disabled to call a function
> +/// fn dont_interrupt_me(_irq: &IrqDisabled<'_>) { }

I would expect the function to take `IrqDisabled` by value instead of by
reference.

> +///
> +/// // Disabling interrupts. They'll be re-enabled once this closure completes.
> +/// disable_irqs(|irq| dont_interrupt_me(&irq));

Because then you don't need a borrow (`&`) here.

> +/// ```
> +pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);

You would also need to `#[derive(Clone, Copy)]` and since we're at it, I
would also add `Debug, Ord, Eq, PartialOrd, PartialEq, Hash`.
The last ones are important if we want to have structs that can only
exist while IRQs are disabled. I don't know if that makes sense, but I
think it's fine to add the derives now.

Another thing, I am wondering if we want this to be invariant over the
lifetime, I don't have a good reason, but I still think we should
consider it.

> +
> +impl<'a> IrqDisabled<'a> {
> +    /// Create a new [`IrqDisabled`] without disabling interrupts
> +    ///
> +    /// If debug assertions are enabled, this function will check that interrupts are disabled.
> +    /// Otherwise, it has no cost at runtime.

I don't see a check in the function below.

> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// This function must only be called in contexts where it is already known that interrupts have
> +    /// been disabled for the current CPU, as the user is making a promise that they will remain
> +    /// disabled at least until this [`IrqDisabled`] is dropped.
> +    pub unsafe fn new() -> Self {
> +        Self(PhantomData)
> +    }

What about adding a function here (taking `self` or `&self`, it doesn't
matter if you derived `Copy`) that checks if IRQs are disabled when
debug assertions are on?

> +}
> +
> +/// Run the closure `cb` with interrupts disabled on the local CPU.
> +///
> +/// Interrupts will be re-enabled once the closure returns. If interrupts were already disabled on
> +/// this CPU, this is a no-op.
> +#[inline]
> +pub fn with_irqs_disabled<T, F>(cb: F) -> T
> +where
> +    F: FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'_>) -> T,
> +{
> +    // SAFETY: FFI call with no special requirements

I vaguely remember that there were some problems with sleeping in IRQ
disabled contexts, is that me just misremembering (eg confusing it with
atomic context), or do we need to watch out for that?
Because if that is the case, then we would need to use klint.

> +    let flags = unsafe { bindings::local_irq_save() };
> +
> +    let ret = cb(IrqDisabled(PhantomData));
> +
> +    // SAFETY: `flags` comes from our previous call to local_irq_save
> +    unsafe { bindings::local_irq_restore(flags) };

Just to make sure, this function only enables interrupts, if they were
enabled before the call to `local_irq_save` above, right?

---
Cheers,
Benno

> +
> +    ret
> +}
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> index e6b7d3a80bbce..37835ccd51087 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>  pub mod firmware;
>  pub mod init;
>  pub mod ioctl;
> +pub mod irq;
>  #[cfg(CONFIG_KUNIT)]
>  pub mod kunit;
>  #[cfg(CONFIG_NET)]
> --
> 2.45.2
> 

Re: [PATCH 2/3] rust: sync: Introduce LockContainer trait

[Benno Lossin]

On 26.07.24 00:27, Lyude Paul wrote:
> We want to be able to use spinlocks in no-interrupt contexts, but our
> current `Lock` infrastructure doesn't allow for the ability to pass
> arguments when acquiring a lock - meaning that there would be no way for us
> to verify interrupts are disabled before granting a lock since we have
> nowhere to pass an `IrqGuard`.
> 
> It doesn't particularly made sense for us to add the ability to pass such
> an argument either: this would technically work, but then we would have to
> pass empty units as arguments on all of the many locks that are not grabbed
> under interrupts. As a result, we go with a slightly nicer solution:

I think there is a solution that would allow us to have both[1]:
1. Add a new associated type to `Backend` called `Context`.
2. Add a new parameter to `Backend::lock`: `ctx: Self::Context`.
3. Add a new function to `Lock<T: ?Sized, B: Backend>`:
   `lock_with(&self, ctx: B::Context)` that delegates to `B::lock`.
4. Reimplement `Lock::lock` in terms of `Lock::lock_with`, by
   constraining the function to only be callable if
   `B::Context: Default` holds (and then using `Default::default()` as
   the value).

This way people can still use `lock()` as usual, but we can also have
`lock_with(irq)` for locks that require it.

[1]: I think I saw this kind of a pattern first from Wedson in the
context of passing default allocation flags.

> introducing a trait for types which can contain a lock of a specific type:
> LockContainer. This means we can still use locks implemented on top of
> other lock types in types such as `LockedBy` - as we convert `LockedBy` to
> begin using `LockContainer` internally and implement the trait for all
> existing lock types.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/sync.rs           |  1 +
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs      | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs | 11 +++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync.rs b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
> index 0ab20975a3b5d..14a79ebbb42d5 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/sync.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  pub use condvar::{new_condvar, CondVar, CondVarTimeoutResult};
>  pub use lock::mutex::{new_mutex, Mutex};
>  pub use lock::spinlock::{new_spinlock, SpinLock};
> +pub use lock::LockContainer;
>  pub use locked_by::LockedBy;
> 
>  /// Represents a lockdep class. It's a wrapper around C's `lock_class_key`.
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> index f6c34ca4d819f..bbd0a7465cae3 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> @@ -195,3 +195,23 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn new(lock: &'a Lock<T, B>, state: B::GuardState) -> Self {
>          }
>      }
>  }
> +
> +/// A trait implemented by any type which contains a [`Lock`] with a specific [`Backend`].
> +pub trait LockContainer<T: ?Sized, B: Backend> {
> +    /// Returns an immutable reference to the lock
> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// Since this returns a reference to the contained [`Lock`] without going through the
> +    /// [`LockContainer`] implementor, it cannot be guaranteed that it is safe to acquire
> +    /// this lock. Thus the caller must promise not to attempt to use the returned immutable
> +    /// reference to attempt to grab the underlying lock without ensuring whatever guarantees the
> +    /// [`LockContainer`] implementor's interface enforces.

This safety requirement is rather unclear to me, there isn't really a
good place to put the `LockContainer` requirements when implementing
this trait.
I also don't understand the use-case where a lock can only be acquired
in certain circumstances, do you have an example?

---
Cheers,
Benno

> +    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &Lock<T, B>;
> +}
> +
> +impl<T: ?Sized, B: Backend> LockContainer<T, B> for Lock<T, B> {
> +    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &Lock<T, B> {
> +        &self
> +    }
> +}
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> index babc731bd5f62..d16d89fe74e0b 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> @@ -95,13 +95,20 @@ impl<T, U> LockedBy<T, U> {
>      /// data becomes inaccessible; if another instance of the owner is allocated *on the same
>      /// memory location*, the data becomes accessible again: none of this affects memory safety
>      /// because in any case at most one thread (or CPU) can access the protected data at a time.
> -    pub fn new<B: Backend>(owner: &Lock<U, B>, data: T) -> Self {
> +    pub fn new<B, L>(owner: &L, data: T) -> Self
> +    where
> +        B: Backend,
> +        L: super::LockContainer<U, B>,
> +    {
>          build_assert!(
>              size_of::<Lock<U, B>>() > 0,
>              "The lock type cannot be a ZST because it may be impossible to distinguish instances"
>          );
>          Self {
> -            owner: owner.data.get(),
> +            // SAFETY: We never directly acquire the lock through this reference, we simply use it
> +            // to ensure that a `Guard` the user provides us to access this container's contents
> +            // belongs to the same lock that owns this data
> +            owner: unsafe { owner.get_lock_ref() }.data.get(),
>              data: UnsafeCell::new(data),
>          }
>      }
> --
> 2.45.2
> 

Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
> thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
> they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
> equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().

So aside from the horrendous camel-case thing, why are you naming this
thing the wrong way around? Shouldn't it be SpinLockIrq rather than
IrqSpinLock? Or possibly even SpinLockIrqSave?

Randomly changing the names of things isn't going to make it any easier
for people to use this stuff.

Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Trevor Gross]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This introduces a module for dealing with interrupt-disabled contexts,
> including the ability to enable and disable interrupts
> (with_irqs_disabled()) - along with the ability to annotate functions as
> expecting that IRQs are already disabled on the local CPU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> ---
>  rust/helpers.c     | 14 +++++++++
>  rust/kernel/irq.rs | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/irq.rs
>
> [...]
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/irq.rs b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..8a540bd6123f7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
> [...]
> +/// A guarantee that IRQs are disabled on this CPU

Nit: `.` after summary

> +///
> +/// An [`IrqDisabled`] represents a guarantee that interrupts will remain disabled on the current CPU
> +/// until the lifetime of the object ends. However, it does not disable or enable interrupts on its
> +/// own - see [`with_irqs_disabled()`] for that.
> +///

I don't think lifetime necessarily needs to be discussed here, since
this doesn't have any  action on drop. A functional description may be
better, possibly:

        A token that is only available in contexts where IRQs are disabled.

        [`IrqDisabled`] is marker made available when interrupts are
        not active. Certain functions (such as [`SOMETHING`]) take an
        `IrqDisabled` in order to indicate that they may only be run in
        IRQ-free contexts.

        This is a marker type; it has no size, and is simply used as a
        compile-time guarantee that interrupts are disabled where required.

        This token can be created by [`with_irqs_disabled`]. See
        [`with_irqs_disabled`] for examples and further information.


> +/// This object has no cost at runtime (TODO: …except if whatever kernel compile-time option that
> +/// would assert IRQs are enabled or not is enabled - in which case we should actually verify that
> +/// they're enabled).
> +///
> +/// # Examples
> +///
> +/// If you want to ensure that a function may only be invoked within contexts where interrupts are
> +/// disabled, you can do so by requiring that a reference to this type be passed. You can also
> +/// create this type using unsafe code in order to indicate that it's known that interrupts are
> +/// already disabled on this CPU
> +///
> +/// ```
> +/// use kernel::irq::{IrqDisabled, disable_irqs};
> +///
> +/// // Requiring interrupts be disabled to call a function
> +/// fn dont_interrupt_me(_irq: &IrqDisabled<'_>) { }
> +///
> +/// // Disabling interrupts. They'll be re-enabled once this closure completes.
> +/// disable_irqs(|irq| dont_interrupt_me(&irq));
> +/// ```

I think it would be okay to only have examples in one place, possible
`with_irqs_disabled` since that seems like it will get more direct use.
If you would like one here, this one and its docs may need an update
(takes by reference rather than by value).

> +pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);

#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]

Since this needs to be duplicatable.

> +impl<'a> IrqDisabled<'a> {
> +    /// Create a new [`IrqDisabled`] without disabling interrupts

Nit: `.` after summary

> +    ///
> +    /// If debug assertions are enabled, this function will check that interrupts are disabled.
> +    /// Otherwise, it has no cost at runtime.
> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// This function must only be called in contexts where it is already known that interrupts have
> +    /// been disabled for the current CPU, as the user is making a promise that they will remain
> +    /// disabled at least until this [`IrqDisabled`] is dropped.
> +    pub unsafe fn new() -> Self {
> +        Self(PhantomData)
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +/// Run the closure `cb` with interrupts disabled on the local CPU.
> +///
> +/// Interrupts will be re-enabled once the closure returns. If interrupts were already disabled on
> +/// this CPU, this is a no-op.

The wording makes it sound like the entire function is a no-op if IRQs
are disabled, rather than the act of disabling IRQs. Could you clarify?

Suggested docs addition:

        This creates an [`IrqDisabled`] token, which can be passed to
        functions that must be run  without interrupts.

        ```
        fn some_sync_action(_irq: IrqDisabled<'_>) {
                /* When the token is available, IRQs are known to be disabled.
                   Actions that rely on this can be safely performed. */
        }

        with_irqs_disabled(|irq_dis| {
                some_sync_action(irq_dis);
        })
        ```

> +#[inline]
> +pub fn with_irqs_disabled<T, F>(cb: F) -> T
> +where
> +    F: FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'_>) -> T,
> +{
> +    // SAFETY: FFI call with no special requirements
> +    let flags = unsafe { bindings::local_irq_save() };
> +
> +    let ret = cb(IrqDisabled(PhantomData));
> +
> +    // SAFETY: `flags` comes from our previous call to local_irq_save
> +    unsafe { bindings::local_irq_restore(flags) };
> +
> +    ret
> +}

Maybe it would be better to put some more extensive module-level docs
with a couple examples, then for the function / type-level docs just
link there?

- Trevor

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

[Trevor Gross]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 6:28 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This adds a simple interface for disabling and enabling CPUs, along with
> the ability to mark a function as expecting interrupts be disabled -
> along with adding bindings for spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore().
>
> Lyude Paul (3):
>   rust: Introduce irq module
>   rust: sync: Introduce LockContainer trait
>   rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock
>
>  rust/helpers.c                    |  14 +++++
>  rust/kernel/irq.rs                |  74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs                |   1 +
>  rust/kernel/sync.rs               |   3 +-
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs          |  20 ++++++
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs     |  11 +++-
>  7 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/irq.rs
>
> --
> 2.45.2

For reference, this is a pattern common in embedded rust. Example at [1].

Summary of how it works: anything that must be called in a critical
section takes a token. A function that creates a critical section
provides the token. It needs to do this in a way that the token can't
escape the CS, so typically it takes a function argument (start CS ->
call inner function with token -> end CS).

(This means nothing at runtime, it's just to ensure at compile time
that IRQs are properly handled where required).

- Trevor

[1]: https://docs.rs/critical-section/latest/critical_section/index.html

Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 07:39 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:50PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > +unsigned long rust_helper_local_irq_save(void) {
> 
> Nit, the '{' goes on the next line for a function declaration in C.
> checkpatch.pl should have caught this, right?

Ah yes - I will make sure to remember to run make checkpatch, this is the
first time I've sent a kernel patch that wasn't for C so it slipped my mind by
mistake when trying to figure out all of the style checkers I needed to run
for rust patches.

> 
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +	local_irq_save(flags);
> > +
> > +	return flags;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_save);
> > +
> > +void rust_helper_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags) {
> 
> Same here.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

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

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 07:39 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:49PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > This adds a simple interface for disabling and enabling CPUs, along with
> > the ability to mark a function as expecting interrupts be disabled -
> > along with adding bindings for spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> 
> Do you have some example code that actually uses this?  Without that,
> it's hard, if not impossible, to review it to see how it works and if it
> works properly.

Yes - currently the project I've been working on to come up with rust KMS
bindings for the kernel uses it:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lyudess/linux/-/blob/rvkms-wip/drivers/gpu/drm/rvkms/crtc.rs

I will make sure to mention it in future versions of this patch series. FWIW
as well: if we have some sort of way of writing unit tests for this in rust
I'd be happy to write some as well. It's probably going to take a while before
rvkms gets upstream, and I'd like to make sure that all of the dependencies it
needs get a chance for feedback as early as possible.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 07:23 +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On 26.07.24 00:27, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > This introduces a module for dealing with interrupt-disabled contexts,
> > including the ability to enable and disable interrupts
> > (with_irqs_disabled()) - along with the ability to annotate functions as
> > expecting that IRQs are already disabled on the local CPU.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  rust/helpers.c     | 14 +++++++++
> >  rust/kernel/irq.rs | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  rust/kernel/lib.rs |  1 +
> >  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/irq.rs
> > 
> > diff --git a/rust/helpers.c b/rust/helpers.c
> > index 87ed0a5b60990..12ac32de820b5 100644
> > --- a/rust/helpers.c
> > +++ b/rust/helpers.c
> > @@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ void rust_helper_spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_spin_unlock);
> > 
> > +unsigned long rust_helper_local_irq_save(void) {
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +	local_irq_save(flags);
> > +
> > +	return flags;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_save);
> > +
> > +void rust_helper_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags) {
> > +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_local_irq_restore);
> > +
> >  void rust_helper_init_wait(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry)
> >  {
> >  	init_wait(wq_entry);
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/irq.rs b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000000..8a540bd6123f7
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/irq.rs
> > @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +//! Interrupt controls
> > +//!
> > +//! This module allows Rust code to control processor interrupts. [`with_irqs_disabled()`] may be
> > +//! used for nested disables of interrupts, whereas [`IrqDisabled`] can be used for annotating code
> > +//! that requires that interrupts already be disabled.
> > +
> > +use bindings;
> > +use core::marker::*;
> > +
> > +/// A guarantee that IRQs are disabled on this CPU
> > +///
> > +/// An [`IrqDisabled`] represents a guarantee that interrupts will remain disabled on the current CPU
> > +/// until the lifetime of the object ends. However, it does not disable or enable interrupts on its
> > +/// own - see [`with_irqs_disabled()`] for that.
> > +///
> > +/// This object has no cost at runtime (TODO: …except if whatever kernel compile-time option that
> > +/// would assert IRQs are enabled or not is enabled - in which case we should actually verify that
> > +/// they're enabled).
> > +///
> > +/// # Examples
> > +///
> > +/// If you want to ensure that a function may only be invoked within contexts where interrupts are
> > +/// disabled, you can do so by requiring that a reference to this type be passed. You can also
> > +/// create this type using unsafe code in order to indicate that it's known that interrupts are
> > +/// already disabled on this CPU
> > +///
> > +/// ```
> > +/// use kernel::irq::{IrqDisabled, disable_irqs};
> > +///
> > +/// // Requiring interrupts be disabled to call a function
> > +/// fn dont_interrupt_me(_irq: &IrqDisabled<'_>) { }
> 
> I would expect the function to take `IrqDisabled` by value instead of by
> reference.
> 
> > +///
> > +/// // Disabling interrupts. They'll be re-enabled once this closure completes.
> > +/// disable_irqs(|irq| dont_interrupt_me(&irq));
> 
> Because then you don't need a borrow (`&`) here.
> 
> > +/// ```
> > +pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);
> 
> You would also need to `#[derive(Clone, Copy)]` and since we're at it, I
> would also add `Debug, Ord, Eq, PartialOrd, PartialEq, Hash`.
> The last ones are important if we want to have structs that can only
> exist while IRQs are disabled. I don't know if that makes sense, but I
> think it's fine to add the derives now.

sgtm

> 
> Another thing, I am wondering if we want this to be invariant over the
> lifetime, I don't have a good reason, but I still think we should
> consider it.
> 
> > +
> > +impl<'a> IrqDisabled<'a> {
> > +    /// Create a new [`IrqDisabled`] without disabling interrupts
> > +    ///
> > +    /// If debug assertions are enabled, this function will check that interrupts are disabled.
> > +    /// Otherwise, it has no cost at runtime.
> 
> I don't see a check in the function below.

Agh, thanks for pointing this out! I totally forgot I wanted to investigate
how to do this before submitting, so I'll look into that today.

> 
> > +    ///
> > +    /// # Safety
> > +    ///
> > +    /// This function must only be called in contexts where it is already known that interrupts have
> > +    /// been disabled for the current CPU, as the user is making a promise that they will remain
> > +    /// disabled at least until this [`IrqDisabled`] is dropped.
> > +    pub unsafe fn new() -> Self {
> > +        Self(PhantomData)
> > +    }
> 
> What about adding a function here (taking `self` or `&self`, it doesn't
> matter if you derived `Copy`) that checks if IRQs are disabled when
> debug assertions are on?

sgtm of course

> 
> > +}
> > +
> > +/// Run the closure `cb` with interrupts disabled on the local CPU.
> > +///
> > +/// Interrupts will be re-enabled once the closure returns. If interrupts were already disabled on
> > +/// this CPU, this is a no-op.
> > +#[inline]
> > +pub fn with_irqs_disabled<T, F>(cb: F) -> T
> > +where
> > +    F: FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'_>) -> T,
> > +{
> > +    // SAFETY: FFI call with no special requirements
> 
> I vaguely remember that there were some problems with sleeping in IRQ
> disabled contexts, is that me just misremembering (eg confusing it with
> atomic context), or do we need to watch out for that?

You're correct - sleeping isn't allowed in no-irq contexts. 

> Because if that is the case, then we would need to use klint.

Ok - I've never used klint before but I'm happy to look into it and try to
implement something for it.

FWIW too: I assume we would still want klint anyway, but I think it's at least
worth mentioning the kernel does have a compile option for WARNing on sleeps
in sleepless contexts

> 
> > +    let flags = unsafe { bindings::local_irq_save() };
> > +
> > +    let ret = cb(IrqDisabled(PhantomData));
> > +
> > +    // SAFETY: `flags` comes from our previous call to local_irq_save
> > +    unsafe { bindings::local_irq_restore(flags) };
> 
> Just to make sure, this function only enables interrupts, if they were
> enabled before the call to `local_irq_save` above, right?

Correct - `local_irq_save()` only saves the CPU's current IRQ flags. So if
interrupts were already disabled in the context we call `local_irq_save()`, we
end up restoring the same IRQ-disabled flags on the processor when we get to
`local_irq_restore()`. This is also why the closure interface for this is
necessary - to ensure that nested interrupt flag saves are always undone in
the reverse order to ensure this assumption always holds.

> 
> ---
> Cheers,
> Benno
> 
> > +
> > +    ret
> > +}
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> > index e6b7d3a80bbce..37835ccd51087 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> >  pub mod firmware;
> >  pub mod init;
> >  pub mod ioctl;
> > +pub mod irq;
> >  #[cfg(CONFIG_KUNIT)]
> >  pub mod kunit;
> >  #[cfg(CONFIG_NET)]
> > --
> > 2.45.2
> > 
> 

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Re: [PATCH 2/3] rust: sync: Introduce LockContainer trait

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 07:40 +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On 26.07.24 00:27, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > We want to be able to use spinlocks in no-interrupt contexts, but our
> > current `Lock` infrastructure doesn't allow for the ability to pass
> > arguments when acquiring a lock - meaning that there would be no way for us
> > to verify interrupts are disabled before granting a lock since we have
> > nowhere to pass an `IrqGuard`.
> > 
> > It doesn't particularly made sense for us to add the ability to pass such
> > an argument either: this would technically work, but then we would have to
> > pass empty units as arguments on all of the many locks that are not grabbed
> > under interrupts. As a result, we go with a slightly nicer solution:
> 
> I think there is a solution that would allow us to have both[1]:
> 1. Add a new associated type to `Backend` called `Context`.
> 2. Add a new parameter to `Backend::lock`: `ctx: Self::Context`.
> 3. Add a new function to `Lock<T: ?Sized, B: Backend>`:
>    `lock_with(&self, ctx: B::Context)` that delegates to `B::lock`.
> 4. Reimplement `Lock::lock` in terms of `Lock::lock_with`, by
>    constraining the function to only be callable if
>    `B::Context: Default` holds (and then using `Default::default()` as
>    the value).
> 
> This way people can still use `lock()` as usual, but we can also have
> `lock_with(irq)` for locks that require it.

ooo! I like this idea :), this totally sounds good to me and I'll do this in
the next iteration of patches

> 
> [1]: I think I saw this kind of a pattern first from Wedson in the
> context of passing default allocation flags.
> 
> > introducing a trait for types which can contain a lock of a specific type:
> > LockContainer. This means we can still use locks implemented on top of
> > other lock types in types such as `LockedBy` - as we convert `LockedBy` to
> > begin using `LockContainer` internally and implement the trait for all
> > existing lock types.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  rust/kernel/sync.rs           |  1 +
> >  rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs      | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs | 11 +++++++++--
> >  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync.rs b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
> > index 0ab20975a3b5d..14a79ebbb42d5 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/sync.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> >  pub use condvar::{new_condvar, CondVar, CondVarTimeoutResult};
> >  pub use lock::mutex::{new_mutex, Mutex};
> >  pub use lock::spinlock::{new_spinlock, SpinLock};
> > +pub use lock::LockContainer;
> >  pub use locked_by::LockedBy;
> > 
> >  /// Represents a lockdep class. It's a wrapper around C's `lock_class_key`.
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> > index f6c34ca4d819f..bbd0a7465cae3 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> > @@ -195,3 +195,23 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn new(lock: &'a Lock<T, B>, state: B::GuardState) -> Self {
> >          }
> >      }
> >  }
> > +
> > +/// A trait implemented by any type which contains a [`Lock`] with a specific [`Backend`].
> > +pub trait LockContainer<T: ?Sized, B: Backend> {
> > +    /// Returns an immutable reference to the lock
> > +    ///
> > +    /// # Safety
> > +    ///
> > +    /// Since this returns a reference to the contained [`Lock`] without going through the
> > +    /// [`LockContainer`] implementor, it cannot be guaranteed that it is safe to acquire
> > +    /// this lock. Thus the caller must promise not to attempt to use the returned immutable
> > +    /// reference to attempt to grab the underlying lock without ensuring whatever guarantees the
> > +    /// [`LockContainer`] implementor's interface enforces.
> 
> This safety requirement is rather unclear to me, there isn't really a
> good place to put the `LockContainer` requirements when implementing
> this trait.
> I also don't understand the use-case where a lock can only be acquired
> in certain circumstances, do you have an example?
> 
> ---
> Cheers,
> Benno
> 
> > +    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &Lock<T, B>;
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<T: ?Sized, B: Backend> LockContainer<T, B> for Lock<T, B> {
> > +    unsafe fn get_lock_ref(&self) -> &Lock<T, B> {
> > +        &self
> > +    }
> > +}
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> > index babc731bd5f62..d16d89fe74e0b 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> > @@ -95,13 +95,20 @@ impl<T, U> LockedBy<T, U> {
> >      /// data becomes inaccessible; if another instance of the owner is allocated *on the same
> >      /// memory location*, the data becomes accessible again: none of this affects memory safety
> >      /// because in any case at most one thread (or CPU) can access the protected data at a time.
> > -    pub fn new<B: Backend>(owner: &Lock<U, B>, data: T) -> Self {
> > +    pub fn new<B, L>(owner: &L, data: T) -> Self
> > +    where
> > +        B: Backend,
> > +        L: super::LockContainer<U, B>,
> > +    {
> >          build_assert!(
> >              size_of::<Lock<U, B>>() > 0,
> >              "The lock type cannot be a ZST because it may be impossible to distinguish instances"
> >          );
> >          Self {
> > -            owner: owner.data.get(),
> > +            // SAFETY: We never directly acquire the lock through this reference, we simply use it
> > +            // to ensure that a `Guard` the user provides us to access this container's contents
> > +            // belongs to the same lock that owns this data
> > +            owner: unsafe { owner.get_lock_ref() }.data.get(),
> >              data: UnsafeCell::new(data),
> >          }
> >      }
> > --
> > 2.45.2
> > 
> 

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 09:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
> > thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
> > they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
> > equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> 
> So aside from the horrendous camel-case thing, why are you naming this
> thing the wrong way around? Shouldn't it be SpinLockIrq rather than
> IrqSpinLock? Or possibly even SpinLockIrqSave?
> 
> Randomly changing the names of things isn't going to make it any easier
> for people to use this stuff.

Yeah you're probably right - I'll fix this on the next iteration

> 

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

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 13:52 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 07:39 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:49PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > This adds a simple interface for disabling and enabling CPUs, along with
> > > the ability to mark a function as expecting interrupts be disabled -
> > > along with adding bindings for spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> > 
> > Do you have some example code that actually uses this?  Without that,
> > it's hard, if not impossible, to review it to see how it works and if it
> > works properly.
> 
> Yes - currently the project I've been working on to come up with rust KMS
> bindings for the kernel uses it:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lyudess/linux/-/blob/rvkms-wip/drivers/gpu/drm/rvkms/crtc.rs
> 
> I will make sure to mention it in future versions of this patch series. FWIW
> as well: if we have some sort of way of writing unit tests for this in rust
> I'd be happy to write some as well. It's probably going to take a while before
> rvkms gets upstream, and I'd like to make sure that all of the dependencies it
> needs get a chance for feedback as early as possible.

A heads up - I didn't realize that the rustdocs in the kernel actually -do-
get run in unit tests, so actually all of the code examples in the
documentation should be working examples if I understand correctly. I will
also keep this mind in the future and make sure to actually run all of these
:)

> 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Benno Lossin]

On 26.07.24 20:18, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 07:23 +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
>> On 26.07.24 00:27, Lyude Paul wrote:
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +/// Run the closure `cb` with interrupts disabled on the local CPU.
>>> +///
>>> +/// Interrupts will be re-enabled once the closure returns. If interrupts were already disabled on
>>> +/// this CPU, this is a no-op.
>>> +#[inline]
>>> +pub fn with_irqs_disabled<T, F>(cb: F) -> T
>>> +where
>>> +    F: FnOnce(IrqDisabled<'_>) -> T,
>>> +{
>>> +    // SAFETY: FFI call with no special requirements
>>
>> I vaguely remember that there were some problems with sleeping in IRQ
>> disabled contexts, is that me just misremembering (eg confusing it with
>> atomic context), or do we need to watch out for that?
> 
> You're correct - sleeping isn't allowed in no-irq contexts.
> 
>> Because if that is the case, then we would need to use klint.
> 
> Ok - I've never used klint before but I'm happy to look into it and try to
> implement something for it.

I am not 100% up to date, last time I heard Gary (the maintainer/author
of klint) talk about it, I remember that it wasn't fully ready for this
stuff. Don't know if this has changed in the meantime.
I don't think this is anything that you can do much, since it's rather
complex, so I will just ping Gary on the status.

> FWIW too: I assume we would still want klint anyway, but I think it's at least
> worth mentioning the kernel does have a compile option for WARNing on sleeps
> in sleepless contexts

So the plan always was to not make it a hard error. Essentially instead
of having `unsafe` littered al over the place when you switch context,
klint would ensure (like the borrow checker for ownership) that
everything is fine.

>>> +    let flags = unsafe { bindings::local_irq_save() };
>>> +
>>> +    let ret = cb(IrqDisabled(PhantomData));
>>> +
>>> +    // SAFETY: `flags` comes from our previous call to local_irq_save
>>> +    unsafe { bindings::local_irq_restore(flags) };
>>
>> Just to make sure, this function only enables interrupts, if they were
>> enabled before the call to `local_irq_save` above, right?
> 
> Correct - `local_irq_save()` only saves the CPU's current IRQ flags. So if
> interrupts were already disabled in the context we call `local_irq_save()`, we
> end up restoring the same IRQ-disabled flags on the processor when we get to
> `local_irq_restore()`. This is also why the closure interface for this is
> necessary - to ensure that nested interrupt flag saves are always undone in
> the reverse order to ensure this assumption always holds.

Thanks, that was exactly what I assumed.

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 09:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
> > thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
> > they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
> > equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> 
> So aside from the horrendous camel-case thing, why are you naming this

Also - sorry I didn't notice this comment before, but I wanted to respond
since it seems like you may not be aware: camel case is mandated as part of
the rust standard:

https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/naming.html

Of course the kernel has its own coding standards that we need to conform to
within reason! But if we tried to ignore camel casing for rust code we'd end
up with rust code where everything would be mixed between types from core
being camel cased and types from kernel crates not being camel cased.

> thing the wrong way around? Shouldn't it be SpinLockIrq rather than
> IrqSpinLock? Or possibly even SpinLockIrqSave?

fwiw too: I'm going to go with SpinLockIrq. SpinLockIrqSave would be a bit
misleading to what this type does because the interface simply makes it so
that it's impossible to acquire the lock outside of no-irq contexts without
resorting to unsafe blocks. Which is fine, since unsafe code is expected to be
able to violate any invariant of the language and relies on programmer-
enforced correctness like C.

> 
> Randomly changing the names of things isn't going to make it any easier
> for people to use this stuff.
> 

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 04:21:09PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 09:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
> > > thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
> > > they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
> > > equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> > 
> > So aside from the horrendous camel-case thing, why are you naming this
> 
> Also - sorry I didn't notice this comment before, but I wanted to respond
> since it seems like you may not be aware: camel case is mandated as part of
> the rust standard:
> 
> https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/naming.html
> 
> Of course the kernel has its own coding standards that we need to conform to
> within reason! But if we tried to ignore camel casing for rust code we'd end
> up with rust code where everything would be mixed between types from core
> being camel cased and types from kernel crates not being camel cased.

Yeah, I'm aware, it is one of the very many reasons I find it very very
hard to like Rust :/

Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Boqun Feng]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:50PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
[...]
> +pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);

I think you need to make this type !Send and !Sync (because you are
going to make it Copy). Otherwise, you will be able to pass the irq
disabled token to another thread on a different CPU which doesn't have
irq disabled.

Regards,
Boqun

Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Benno Lossin]

On 26.07.24 23:21, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:50PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> [...]
>> +pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);
> 
> I think you need to make this type !Send and !Sync (because you are
> going to make it Copy). Otherwise, you will be able to pass the irq
> disabled token to another thread on a different CPU which doesn't have
> irq disabled.

Oh yeah this is a good catch! (although it should not matter at the
moment, see the end of the note below)

Just a note: it is not because of making it Copy, this problem already
exists in the current implementation. One could have sent the reference
to a different thread using a "scoped spawn"-esque function [1]. IIRC we
currently do not have such a function, but it should be possible to
later add such a function. (and it is much more accurate to make this
type not be thread safe)

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/struct.Scope.html#method.spawn

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: Introduce irq module

[Boqun Feng]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 09:30:00PM +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On 26.07.24 23:21, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:50PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > [...]
> >> +pub struct IrqDisabled<'a>(PhantomData<&'a ()>);
> > 
> > I think you need to make this type !Send and !Sync (because you are
> > going to make it Copy). Otherwise, you will be able to pass the irq
> > disabled token to another thread on a different CPU which doesn't have
> > irq disabled.
> 
> Oh yeah this is a good catch! (although it should not matter at the
> moment, see the end of the note below)
> 
> Just a note: it is not because of making it Copy, this problem already
> exists in the current implementation. One could have sent the reference

Ah, you're right. I was thinking ahead, i.e. dont_interrupt_me() takes a
`IrqDisabled` instead of a `&IrqDisabled`. But it comes along with the
deal of making `IrqDisabled` `Copy` ;-)

> to a different thread using a "scoped spawn"-esque function [1]. IIRC we
> currently do not have such a function, but it should be possible to
> later add such a function. (and it is much more accurate to make this

Yes, scoped spawned timers and works will be very useful, because they
can use stacks for the data structures.

Regards,
Boqun

> type not be thread safe)
> 
> [1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/struct.Scope.html#method.spawn
> 
> ---
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> Benno
> 

Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[kernel test robot]

Hi Lyude,

kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:

[auto build test ERROR on next-20240725]
[also build test ERROR on linus/master v6.10]
[cannot apply to rust/rust-next v6.10 v6.10-rc7 v6.10-rc6]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url:    https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Lyude-Paul/rust-Introduce-irq-module/20240726-064926
base:   next-20240725
patch link:    https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725222822.1784931-4-lyude%40redhat.com
patch subject: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock
config: x86_64-rhel-8.3-rust (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240727/202407271842.ujYe0mc0-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 18.1.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 617a15a9eac96088ae5e9134248d8236e34b91b1)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240727/202407271842.ujYe0mc0-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)

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| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202407271842.ujYe0mc0-lkp@intel.com/

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> error: mismatched closing delimiter: `)`
   --> rust/doctests_kernel_generated.rs:4097:34
   |
   4097 | let b = with_irqs_disabled(|irq| {
   |                           -      ^ unclosed delimiter
   |                           |
   |                           closing delimiter possibly meant for this
   ...
   4100 | );
   | ^ mismatched closing delimiter

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