Re: [PATCH 2/2] rust: time: Implement basic arithmetic operations for Delta

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2025-07-29 at 12:15 +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> 
> 
> The reason I bring up the example is that once you add code using these
> impls, you're going to get kernel build bot errors from your code not
> compiling on 32-bit. And as seen in the linked one, code may be compiled
> for 32-bit when setting CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST even if you don't support it
> for real.
> 
> > This being said, the kernel does have a math library that we can call into
> > that emulates operations like this on 32 bit - which I'd be willing to convert
> > these implementations over to using. I just put the CONFIG_64BIT there because
> > if we do use the kernel math library, I just want to make sure I don't end up
> > being the oen who has to figure out how to hook up the kernel math library for
> > 64 bit division outside of simple time value manipulation. I've got enough
> > dependencies on my plate to get upstream as it is :P
> 
> If you just want to call the relevant bindings:: method directly without
> any further logic that seems fine to me.

Gotcha, I will do that. Ideally I would at least like to have us only call the
bindings:: method so long as we're on a config where we really need it. Which
brings me to ask - do we actually have a way of checking BITS_PER_LONG in
#[cfg()]? I would have assumed it'd be simple but I don't actually seem to be
able to reference BITS_PER_LONG.

Also - I'm realizing that apparently s64 % s64 in the kernel just doesn't
exist anywhere at all (we don't even have math functions for it!), since the
case I'm working with actually should be fine with s64 % s32 I'm going to add
a function for that which just takes the dividend as a i32 rather than a Delta
(something like Delta::rem_ns(self, ns: i32) -> Delta)

> 
> Alice
> 

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 Lyude Paul (she/her)
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