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Date:   Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:48:42 -0700
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:27:39PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Josh, I think it's good if we can connect to the people working on Rust
> memoryg model, I think the right person is Ralf Jung and the right place
> is https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines, but you
> cerntainly know better than me ;-) Or maybe we can use Rust-for-Linux or
> linux-toolchains list to discuss.

Ralf is definitely the right person to talk to. I don't think the UCG
repository is the right place to start that discussion, though. For now,
I'd suggest starting an email thread with Ralf and some C-and-kernel
memory model folks (hi Paul!) to suss out the most important changes
that would be needed.

With my language team hat on, I'd *absolutely* like to see the Rust
memory model support RCU-style deferred reclamation in a sound way,
ideally with as little unsafe code as possible.