From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
To: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
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Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
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Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v15 0/9] rust: add `Ownable` trait and `Owned` type
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:51:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220-unique-ref-v15-0-893ed86b06cc@kernel.org> (raw)
Add a new trait `Ownable` and type `Owned` for types that specify their
own way of performing allocation and destruction. This is useful for
types from the C side.
Add the trait `OwnableRefCounted` that allows conversion between
`ARef` and `Owned`. This is analogous to conversion between `Arc` and
`UniqueArc`.
Convert `Page` to be `Ownable` and add a `from_raw` method.
Implement `ForeignOwnable` for `Owned`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
---
Changes in v15:
- Update series with original SoB's.
- Rename `AlwaysRefCounted` in `kernel::usb`.
- Rename `Owned::get_pin_mut` to `Owned::as_pin_mut`.
- Link to v14: https://msgid.link/20260204-unique-ref-v14-0-17cb29ebacbb@kernel.org
Changes in v14:
- Rebase on v6.19-rc7.
- Rewrite cover letter.
- Update documentation and safety comments based on v13 feedback.
- Update commit messages.
- Reorder implementation blocks in owned.rs.
- Update example in owned.rs to use try operator rather than `expect`.
- Reformat use statements.
- Add patch: rust: page: convert to `Ownable`.
- Add patch: rust: implement `ForeignOwnable` for `Owned`.
- Add patch: rust: page: add `from_raw()`.
- Link to v13: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251117-unique-ref-v13-0-b5b243df1250@pm.me
Changes in v13:
- Rebase onto v6.18-rc1 (Andreas's work).
- Documentation and style fixes contributed by Andreas
- Link to v12: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251001-unique-ref-v12-0-fa5c31f0c0c4@pm.me
Changes in v12:
-
- Rebase onto v6.17-rc1 (Andreas's work).
- moved kernel/types/ownable.rs to kernel/owned.rs
- Drop OwnableMut, make DerefMut depend on Unpin instead. I understood
ML discussion as that being okay, but probably needs further scrunity.
- Lots of more documentation changes suggested by reviewers.
- Usage example for Ownable/Owned.
- Link to v11: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618-unique-ref-v11-0-49eadcdc0aa6@pm.me
Changes in v11:
- Rework of documentation. I tried to honor all requests for changes "in
spirit" plus some clearifications and corrections of my own.
- Dropping `SimpleOwnedRefCounted` by request from Alice, as it creates a
potentially problematic blanket implementation (which a derive macro that
could be created later would not have).
- Dropping Miguel's "kbuild: provide `RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND` symbol"
patch, as it is not needed anymore after dropping `SimpleOwnedRefCounted`.
(I can add it again, if it is considered useful anyway).
- Link to v10: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250502-unique-ref-v10-0-25de64c0307f@pm.me
Changes in v10:
- Moved kernel/ownable.rs to kernel/types/ownable.rs
- Fixes in documentation / comments as suggested by Andreas Hindborg
- Added Reviewed-by comment for Andreas Hindborg
- Fix rustfmt of pid_namespace.rs
- Link to v9: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250325-unique-ref-v9-0-e91618c1de26@pm.me
Changes in v9:
- Rebase onto v6.14-rc7
- Move Ownable/OwnedRefCounted/Ownable, etc., into separate module
- Documentation fixes to Ownable/OwnableMut/OwnableRefCounted
- Add missing SAFETY documentation to ARef example
- Link to v8: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250313-unique-ref-v8-0-3082ffc67a31@pm.me
Changes in v8:
- Fix Co-developed-by and Suggested-by tags as suggested by Miguel and Boqun
- Some small documentation fixes in Owned/Ownable patch
- removing redundant trait constraint on DerefMut for Owned as suggested by Boqun Feng
- make SimpleOwnedRefCounted no longer implement RefCounted as suggested by Boqun Feng
- documentation for RefCounted as suggested by Boqun Feng
- Link to v7: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310-unique-ref-v7-0-4caddb78aa05@pm.me
Changes in v7:
- Squash patch to make Owned::from_raw/into_raw public into parent
- Added Signed-off-by to other people's commits
- Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310-unique-ref-v6-0-1ff53558617e@pm.me
Changes in v6:
- Changed comments/formatting as suggested by Miguel Ojeda
- Included and used new config flag RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND,
thus no changes to types.rs will be needed when the attribute
becomes available.
- Fixed commit message for Owned patch.
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307-unique-ref-v5-0-bffeb633277e@pm.me
Changes in v5:
- Rebase the whole thing on top of the Ownable/Owned traits by Asahi Lina.
- Rename AlwaysRefCounted to RefCounted and make AlwaysRefCounted a
marker trait instead to allow to obtain an ARef<T> from an &T,
which (as Alice pointed out) is unsound when combined with UniqueRef/Owned.
- Change the Trait design and naming to implement this feature,
UniqueRef/UniqueRefCounted is dropped in favor of Ownable/Owned and
OwnableRefCounted is used to provide the functions to convert
between Owned and ARef.
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305-unique-ref-v4-1-a8fdef7b1c2c@pm.me
Changes in v4:
- Just a minor change in naming by request from Andreas Hindborg,
try_shared_to_unique() -> try_from_shared(),
unique_to_shared() -> into_shared(),
which is more in line with standard Rust naming conventions.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z8Wuud2UQX6Yukyr@mango
---
Andreas Hindborg (4):
rust: aref: update formatting of use statements
rust: page: update formatting of `use` statements
rust: implement `ForeignOwnable` for `Owned`
rust: page: add `from_raw()`
Asahi Lina (2):
rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types
rust: page: convert to `Ownable`
Oliver Mangold (3):
rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
rust: Add missing SAFETY documentation for `ARef` example
rust: Add `OwnableRefCounted`
rust/kernel/auxiliary.rs | 7 +-
rust/kernel/block/mq/request.rs | 15 +-
rust/kernel/cred.rs | 13 +-
rust/kernel/device.rs | 10 +-
rust/kernel/device/property.rs | 7 +-
rust/kernel/drm/device.rs | 10 +-
rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs | 8 +-
rust/kernel/fs/file.rs | 16 +-
rust/kernel/i2c.rs | 16 +-
rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +
rust/kernel/mm.rs | 15 +-
rust/kernel/mm/mmput_async.rs | 9 +-
rust/kernel/opp.rs | 10 +-
rust/kernel/owned.rs | 366 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
rust/kernel/page.rs | 57 +++++--
rust/kernel/pci.rs | 10 +-
rust/kernel/pid_namespace.rs | 12 +-
rust/kernel/platform.rs | 7 +-
rust/kernel/sync/aref.rs | 80 ++++++---
rust/kernel/task.rs | 10 +-
rust/kernel/types.rs | 13 +-
rust/kernel/usb.rs | 15 +-
22 files changed, 624 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: b8d687c7eeb52d0353ac27c4f71594a2e6aa365f
change-id: 20250305-unique-ref-29fcd675f9e9
Best regards,
--
Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-20 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-20 9:51 Andreas Hindborg [this message]
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 1/9] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 10:35 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 2/9] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted` Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 3/9] rust: Add missing SAFETY documentation for `ARef` example Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 10:49 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 4/9] rust: aref: update formatting of use statements Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 5/9] rust: Add `OwnableRefCounted` Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 6/9] rust: page: update formatting of `use` statements Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 7/9] rust: page: convert to `Ownable` Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 8/9] rust: implement `ForeignOwnable` for `Owned` Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 9:51 ` [PATCH v15 9/9] rust: page: add `from_raw()` Andreas Hindborg
2026-02-20 10:49 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-02-20 17:33 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-02-20 17:50 ` Tamir Duberstein
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