Re: [PATCH] rust: mm: add abstractions for mm_struct and vm_area_struct

[Alice Ryhl]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:11 AM Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 23.07.24 16:32, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > This is a follow-up to the page abstractions [1] that were recently
> > merged in 6.11. Rust Binder will need these abstractions to manipulate
> > the vma in its implementation of the mmap fop on the Binder file.
> >
> > The ARef wrapper is not used for mm_struct because there are several
> > different types of refcounts.
>
> I am confused, why can't you use the `ARef` wrapper for the different
> types that you create below?

Well, maybe I can, but it means we have several wrapper structs of
Opaque<mm_struct>. Would it not be confusing? Could you suggest a
naming scheme for the structs I should have?

Alice