On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:31:27 +0000
Alice Ryhl [off-list ref] wrote:

This introduces a new marker type for types that shouldn't be thread
safe. By adding a field of this type to a struct, it becomes non-Send
and non-Sync, which means that it cannot be accessed in any way from
threads other than the one it was created on.

This is useful for APIs that require globals such as `current` to remain
constant while the value exists.

We update two existing users in the Kernel to use this helper:

 * `Task::current()` - moving the return type of this value to a
   different thread would not be safe as you can no longer be guaranteed
   that the `current` pointer remains valid.
 * Lock guards. Mutexes and spinlocks should be unlocked on the same
   thread as where they were locked, so we enforce this using the Send
   trait.

There are also additional users in later patches of this patchset. See
[1] and [2] for the discussion that led to the introduction of this
patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nFDPJFnzE9Q5cqY7FwSMByRH2OAn_BpI4H53NQfWIlN6I2qfmAqnkp2wRqn0XjMO65OyZY4h6P4K2nAGKJpAOSzksYXaiAK_FoH_8QbgBI4=@proton.me/ (local) [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nFDPJFnzE9Q5cqY7FwSMByRH2OAn_BpI4H53NQfWIlN6I2qfmAqnkp2wRqn0XjMO65OyZY4h6P4K2nAGKJpAOSzksYXaiAK_FoH_8QbgBI4=@proton.me/ (local) [2]
Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

Miguel, can we apply this patch now without having it wait on the rest
of file abstractions because it'll be useful to other?

Best,
Gary

---
 rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs | 13 +++++++++----
 rust/kernel/task.rs      | 10 ++++++----
 rust/kernel/types.rs     | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)