Re: [PATCH v4 08/13] rust: pci: add basic PCI device / driver abstractions

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 11:44 AM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 03:01:18PM +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Implement the basic PCI abstractions required to write a basic PCI
> > > driver. This includes the following data structures:
> > >
> > > The `pci::Driver` trait represents the interface to the driver and
> > > provides `pci::Driver::probe` for the driver to implement.
> > >
> > > The `pci::Device` abstraction represents a `struct pci_dev` and provides
> > > abstractions for common functions, such as `pci::Device::set_master`.
> > >
> > > In order to provide the PCI specific parts to a generic
> > > `driver::Registration` the `driver::RegistrationOps` trait is implemented
> > > by `pci::Adapter`.
> > >
> > > `pci::DeviceId` implements PCI device IDs based on the generic
> > > `device_id::RawDevceId` abstraction.
> > >
> > > Co-developed-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > +/// The PCI device representation.
> > > +///
> > > +/// A PCI device is based on an always reference counted `device:Device` instance. Cloning a PCI
> > > +/// device, hence, also increments the base device' reference count.
> > > +#[derive(Clone)]
> > > +pub struct Device(ARef<device::Device>);
> >
> > It seems more natural for this to be a wrapper around
> > `Opaque<bindings::pci_dev>`. Then you can have both &Device and
> > ARef<Device> depending on whether you want to hold a refcount or not.
>
> Yeah, but then every bus device has to re-implement the refcount dance we
> already have in `device::Device` for the underlying base `struct device`.
>
> I forgot to mention this in my previous reply to Boqun, but we even documented
> it this way in `device::Device` [1].
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/rust/kernel/device.rs#n28

We could perhaps write a derive macro for AlwaysRefCounted that
delegates to the inner type? That way, we can have the best of both
worlds.

Alice





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