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To:     Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>,
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On 3/30/23 06:39, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
> From: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
> 
> It is a wrapper around C's `lock_class_key`, which is used by the
> synchronisation primitives that are checked with lockdep. This is in
> preparation for introducing Rust abstractions for these primitives.
> 
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
> ---
> +// SAFETY: `bindings::lock_class_key` is designed to be used concurrently from multiple threads and
> +// provides its own synchronization.
> +unsafe impl Sync for LockClassKey {}

No Send?

> +
> +impl LockClassKey {
> +    /// Creates a new lock class key.
> +    pub const fn new() -> Self {
> +        Self(Opaque::uninit())
> +    }
> +
> +    #[allow(dead_code)]
> +    pub(crate) fn as_ptr(&self) -> *mut bindings::lock_class_key {
> +        self.0.get()
> +    }

I would just make this pub and drop the `#[allow(dead_code)]`. I think 
it is often useful to have methods like this available publicly.