[PATCH v6 0/4] rust: helpers: add SRCU helpers

From: Onur Özkan

Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 16:37:05 EST


The immediate motivation is the Tyr reset infrastructure [1] which needs
to serialize reset sensitive hardware access against reset and teardown
paths. That reset series started to require many independent dependencies
so this SRCU support is split out as a standalone Rust API to keep the
reset series focused on the reset logic and easier to review, rebase and
land.

Changes since v5:

- Created separate srcu_readers_active() variants for "srcutiny.h" and
"srcutree.h".

v5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260527174120.510447-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes since v4:

- Exposed srcu_readers_active from C side and wired it to the Rust
helpers.
- Used srcu_readers_active() in SRCU drop and logged with pr_warn if
there are leaked guards during the drop.

v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260525175706.124910-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes since v3 (which are for Sashiko notes [2]):

- Added rust helpers for srcu_barrier() and synchronize_srcu_expedited()
so the abstraction builds with CONFIG_TINY_SRCU, where these are
static inline functions.
- Added missing INVARIANT comment in Srcu::new() about why the type
invariants hold after successful initialization.

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260522054228.114814-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes since v2:

- Removed closure-based API.
- Added #[doc(hidden)] on new_srcu macro.
- Added #[must_use..] on srcu::Guard.
- Improved the clean-up path (PinnedDrop implementation) which
eventually made read_lock safe with leaked guards.

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260502162833.34334-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes since v1:

- Made the owned SRCU read-side guard API unsafe and added a safe closure
based helper for callers that do not need to keep the guard. This is to
avoid UB on the C side cleanup_srcu_struct where the SRCU struct is freed
while there are still active guards, which can happen if the caller leaks
the guard e.g., with mem::forget().
- Improved doc comments.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260428103437.156236-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260416171728.205141-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[2]: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260522054228.114814-1-work@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?part=2

Onur Özkan (4):
rust: helpers: add SRCU helpers
srcu: expose srcu_readers_active()
rust: sync: add SRCU abstraction
MAINTAINERS: add Rust SRCU files to SRCU entry

MAINTAINERS | 3 +
include/linux/srcutiny.h | 13 +++
include/linux/srcutree.h | 24 ++++++
kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c | 2 +-
kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 25 ------
rust/helpers/helpers.c | 1 +
rust/helpers/srcu.c | 39 +++++++++
rust/kernel/sync.rs | 2 +
rust/kernel/sync/srcu.rs | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 rust/helpers/srcu.c
create mode 100644 rust/kernel/sync/srcu.rs

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