[PATCH 1/3] rust: add Aliased type

[Christian Schrefl]

This type is useful for cases where a value might be shared with C code
but not interpreted by it.
In partiquarly this is added to for data that is shared between a Driver
and a MiscDevice implementation.

Similar to Opaque but guarantees that the value is initialized and the
inner value is dropped when Aliased is dropped.

This was origianally proposed for the IRQ abstractions [0], but also
useful for other cases where Data may be aliased, but is always valid
and automatic drop is desired.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAH5fLgiOASgjoYKFz6kWwzLaH07DqP2ph+3YyCDh2+gYqGpABA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [0]
Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Schrefl <chrisi.schrefl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 rust/kernel/types.rs | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/types.rs b/rust/kernel/types.rs
index 3aea6af9a0bca70ee42b4bad2fe31a99750cbf11..5640128c9a9055476a0040033946ba6caa6e7076 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/types.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/types.rs
@@ -528,3 +528,43 @@ pub enum Either<L, R> {
 /// [`NotThreadSafe`]: type@NotThreadSafe
 #[allow(non_upper_case_globals)]
 pub const NotThreadSafe: NotThreadSafe = PhantomData;
+
+/// Stores a value that may be aliased.
+///
+/// This is similar to `Opaque<T>` but is guaranteed to contain valid data and will
+/// Call the Drop implementation of T when dropped.
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Aliased<T> {
+    value: UnsafeCell<T>,
+    _pin: PhantomPinned,
+}
+
+impl<T> Aliased<T> {
+    /// Creates a new `Aliased` value.
+    pub const fn new(value: T) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            value: UnsafeCell::new(value),
+            _pin: PhantomPinned,
+        }
+    }
+    /// Create an `Aliased` pin-initializer from the given pin-initializer.
+    pub fn try_pin_init<E>(value: impl PinInit<T, E>) -> impl PinInit<Self, E> {
+        // SAFETY:
+        // In case of an error in value the error is returned, otherwise the slot is fully initialized,
+        // since value is initialized and _pin is a Zero sized type.
+        // The pin invariants of value are upheld, since no moving occurs.
+        unsafe { init::pin_init_from_closure(move |slot| value.__pinned_init(Self::raw_get(slot))) }
+    }
+    /// Returns a raw pointer to the opaque data.
+    pub const fn get(&self) -> *mut T {
+        UnsafeCell::get(&self.value).cast::<T>()
+    }
+
+    /// Gets the value behind `this`.
+    ///
+    /// This function is useful to get access to the value without creating intermediate
+    /// references.
+    pub const fn raw_get(this: *const Self) -> *mut T {
+        UnsafeCell::raw_get(this.cast::<UnsafeCell<MaybeUninit<T>>>()).cast::<T>()
+    }
+}

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