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authorAlice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>2023-05-31 17:59:38 +0300
committerMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>2023-05-31 19:53:10 +0300
commitbe7724cdbbca22e0cbde1edf30941a7aa4378ded (patch)
tree588498f46c522aff57e6c60a636fea4cc6a249e4 /rust
parentd701e061cb14f589f8c4f48fd7fbe81c0e34b7e7 (diff)
downloadlinux-be7724cdbbca22e0cbde1edf30941a7aa4378ded.tar.xz
rust: specify when `ARef` is thread safe
An `ARef` behaves just like the `Arc` when it comes to thread safety, so we can reuse the thread safety comments from `Arc` here. This is necessary because without this change, the Rust compiler will assume that things are not thread safe even though they are. Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531145939.3714886-4-aliceryhl@google.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--rust/kernel/types.rs13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rust/kernel/types.rs b/rust/kernel/types.rs
index 29db59d6119a..1e5380b16ed5 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/types.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/types.rs
@@ -321,6 +321,19 @@ pub struct ARef<T: AlwaysRefCounted> {
_p: PhantomData<T>,
}
+// SAFETY: It is safe to send `ARef<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync` because
+// it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`); additionally, it needs
+// `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has an `ARef<T>` may ultimately access `T` using a
+// mutable reference, for example, when the reference count reaches zero and `T` is dropped.
+unsafe impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted + Sync + Send> Send for ARef<T> {}
+
+// SAFETY: It is safe to send `&ARef<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync`
+// because it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`); additionally,
+// it needs `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has a `&ARef<T>` may clone it and get an
+// `ARef<T>` on that thread, so the thread may ultimately access `T` using a mutable reference, for
+// example, when the reference count reaches zero and `T` is dropped.
+unsafe impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted + Sync + Send> Sync for ARef<T> {}
+
impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted> ARef<T> {
/// Creates a new instance of [`ARef`].
///