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authorDirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>2024-04-18 09:06:18 +0200
committerMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>2024-05-05 19:14:49 +0200
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docs: rust: extend abstraction and binding documentation
Add some basics explained by Miguel in [1] to the documentation. And connect it with some hints where this is implemented in the kernel. Link: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/rust-for-linux-writing-abstractions-and-drivers [1] Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240418070618.3962736-1-dirk.behme@de.bosch.com [ Reworded first section for better clarity and some minor nits. Changed link into Link tag, use tabs for code block indentation and wrap at 80. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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@@ -64,6 +64,63 @@ but it is intended that coverage is expanded as time goes on. "Leaf" modules
(e.g. drivers) should not use the C bindings directly. Instead, subsystems
should provide as-safe-as-possible abstractions as needed.
+.. code-block::
+
+ rust/bindings/
+ (rust/helpers.c)
+
+ include/ -----+ <-+
+ | |
+ drivers/ rust/kernel/ +----------+ <-+ |
+ fs/ | bindgen | |
+ .../ +-------------------+ +----------+ --+ |
+ | Abstractions | | |
+ +---------+ | +------+ +------+ | +----------+ | |
+ | my_foo | -----> | | foo | | bar | | -------> | Bindings | <-+ |
+ | driver | Safe | | sub- | | sub- | | Unsafe | | |
+ +---------+ | |system| |system| | | bindings | <-----+
+ | | +------+ +------+ | | crate | |
+ | | kernel crate | +----------+ |
+ | +-------------------+ |
+ | |
+ +------------------# FORBIDDEN #--------------------------------+
+
+The main idea is to encapsulate all direct interaction with the kernel's C APIs
+into carefully reviewed and documented abstractions. Then users of these
+abstractions cannot introduce undefined behavior (UB) as long as:
+
+#. The abstractions are correct ("sound").
+#. Any ``unsafe`` blocks respect the safety contract necessary to call the
+ operations inside the block. Similarly, any ``unsafe impl``\ s respect the
+ safety contract necessary to implement the trait.
+
+Bindings
+~~~~~~~~
+
+By including a C header from ``include/`` into
+``rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h``, the ``bindgen`` tool will auto-generate the
+bindings for the included subsystem. After building, see the ``*_generated.rs``
+output files in the ``rust/bindings/`` directory.
+
+For parts of the C header that ``bindgen`` does not auto generate, e.g. C
+``inline`` functions or non-trivial macros, it is acceptable to add a small
+wrapper function to ``rust/helpers.c`` to make it available for the Rust side as
+well.
+
+Abstractions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Abstractions are the layer between the bindings and the in-kernel users. They
+are located in ``rust/kernel/`` and their role is to encapsulate the unsafe
+access to the bindings into an as-safe-as-possible API that they expose to their
+users. Users of the abstractions include things like drivers or file systems
+written in Rust.
+
+Besides the safety aspect, the abstractions are supposed to be "ergonomic", in
+the sense that they turn the C interfaces into "idiomatic" Rust code. Basic
+examples are to turn the C resource acquisition and release into Rust
+constructors and destructors or C integer error codes into Rust's ``Result``\ s.
+
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