On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 05:28:27PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > +pid_t rust_helper_task_tgid_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk,
> > + struct pid_namespace *ns)
> > +{
> > + return task_tgid_nr_ns(tsk, ns);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_task_tgid_nr_ns);
>
> I'm a bit puzzled by all these rust_helper_*() calls. Can you explain
> why they are needed? Because they are/can be static inlines and that
> somehow doesn't work?
Correct, because Rust can only talk to C ABI, it cannot use C headers.
Bindgen would need to translate the full C headers into valid Rust for
that to work.
I really think the Rust peoples should spend more effort on that,
because you are quite right, all this wrappery is tedious at best.
