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From:   Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] rust: workqueue: add helper for defining
 work_struct fields
To:     Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
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        Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>,
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On 6/1/23 10:49, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> The main challenge with defining `work_struct` fields is making sure
> that the function pointer stored in the `work_struct` is appropriate for
> the work item type it is embedded in. It needs to know the offset of the
> `work_struct` field being used (even if there are several!) so that it
> can do a `container_of`, and it needs to know the type of the work item
> so that it can call into the right user-provided code. All of this needs
> to happen in a way that provides a safe API to the user, so that users
> of the workqueue cannot mix up the function pointers.
> 
> There are three important pieces that are relevant when doing this:
> 
>   * The pointer type.
>   * The work item struct. This is what the pointer points at.
>   * The `work_struct` field. This is a field of the work item struct.
> 
> This patch introduces a separate trait for each piece. The pointer type
> is given a `WorkItemPointer` trait, which pointer types need to
> implement to be usable with the workqueue. This trait will be
> implemented for `Arc` and `Box` in a later patch in this patchset.
> Implementing this trait is unsafe because this is where the
> `container_of` operation happens, but user-code will not need to
> implement it themselves.
> 
> The work item struct should then implement the `WorkItem` trait. This
> trait is where user-code specifies what they want to happen when a work
> item is executed. It also specifies what the correct pointer type is.
> 
> Finally, to make the work item struct know the offset of its
> `work_struct` field, we use a trait called `HasWork<T, ID>`. If a type
> implements this trait, then the type declares that, at the given offset,
> there is a field of type `Work<T, ID>`. The trait is marked unsafe
> because the OFFSET constant must be correct, but we provide an
> `impl_has_work!` macro that can safely implement `HasWork<T>` on a type.
> The macro expands to something that only compiles if the specified field
> really has the type `Work<T>`. It is used like this:
> 
> ```
> struct MyWorkItem {
>      work_field: Work<MyWorkItem, 1>,
> }
> 
> impl_has_work! {
>      impl HasWork<MyWorkItem, 1> for MyWorkItem { self.work_field }
> }
> ```
> 
> Note that since the `Work` type is annotated with an id, you can have
> several `work_struct` fields by using a different id for each one.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> ---
> [...]

Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>