On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 03:13:30AM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Currently, when sharing references of bus devices (e.g. ARef<pci::Device>), we
> do not have a way to restrict which functions of a bus device can be called.
>
> Consequently, it is possible to call all bus device functions concurrently from
> any context. This includes functions, which access fields of the (bus) device,
> which are not protected against concurrent access.
>
> This is improved by applying an execution context to the bus device in form of a
> generic type.
>
> For instance, the PCI device reference that is passed to probe() has the type
> pci::Device<Core>, which implements all functions that are only allowed to be
> called from bus callbacks.
>
> The implementation for the default context (pci::Device) contains all functions
> that are safe to call from any context concurrently.
>
> The context types can be extended as required, e.g. to limit availability of
> certain (bus) device functions to probe().
>
For the whole series:
Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Regards,
Boqun
> A branch containing the patches can be found in [1].
>
> [1] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=rust/device
>
> Danilo Krummrich (4):
> rust: pci: use to_result() in enable_device_mem()
> rust: device: implement device context marker
> rust: pci: fix unrestricted &mut pci::Device
> rust: platform: fix unrestricted &mut platform::Device
>
> drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/device.rs | 18 ++++
> rust/kernel/pci.rs | 131 ++++++++++++++++-----------
> rust/kernel/platform.rs | 93 ++++++++++++-------
> samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs | 8 +-
> samples/rust/rust_driver_platform.rs | 16 +++-
> 6 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: b28786b190d1ae2df5e6a5181ad78c6f226ea3e1
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> 2.48.1
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