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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 0/7] Bindings for the workqueue
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Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> writes:

> This patchset contains bindings for the kernel workqueue.
>
> One of the primary goals behind the design used in this patch is that we
> must support embedding the `work_struct` as a field in user-provided
> types, because this allows you to submit things to the workqueue without
> having to allocate, making the submission infallible. If we didn't have
> to support this, then the patch would be much simpler. One of the main
> things that make it complicated is that we must ensure that the function
> pointer in the `work_struct` is compatible with the struct it is
> contained within.
>
> This patch could be significantly simplified if we already had the field
> projection bindings. However, we have decided to upstream the current
> version that does not depend on field projection first - the PR that
> introduces field projections will then include a commit that simplifies
> the workqueue implementation. (In particular, it would simplify the 5th
> patch in this series.)
>
> The first version of the workqueue bindings was written by Wedson, but
> I have rewritten much of it so that it uses the pin-init infrastructure
> and can be used with containers other than `Arc`.
>
> Alice Ryhl (4):
> rust: workqueue: add low-level workqueue bindings
> rust: workqueue: add helper for defining work_struct fields
> rust: workqueue: add safe API to workqueue
> rust: workqueue: add `try_spawn` helper method
>
> Wedson Almeida Filho (3):
> rust: add offset_of! macro
> rust: sync: add `Arc::{from_raw, into_raw}`
> rust: workqueue: define built-in queues
>
> rust/helpers.c | 8 +
> rust/kernel/lib.rs | 37 ++
> rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs | 44 +++
> rust/kernel/workqueue.rs | 715 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/Makefile.build | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 805 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
>
>
> base-commit: ac9a78681b921877518763ba0e89202254349d1b

This does not compile for me. Could you link dependencies to be applied
first?

Best regards,
Andreas

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