Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] rust: io: mem: add a generic iomem abstraction

From: Alice Ryhl
Date: Thu Feb 06 2025 - 10:43:44 EST


On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM Guangbo Cui <2407018371@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +/// A generic memory-mapped IO region.
> > +///
> > +/// Accesses to the underlying region is checked either at compile time, if the
> > +/// region's size is known at that point, or at runtime otherwise.
> > +///
> > +/// # Invariants
> > +///
> > +/// `IoMem` always holds an `IoRaw` inststance that holds a valid pointer to the
> > +/// start of the I/O memory mapped region.
> > +pub struct IoMem<const SIZE: usize = 0> {
> > + io: IoRaw<SIZE>,
> > +}
>
> Compile-time checks are only possible when CONFIG_RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW=y.
> Otherwise, using compile-time check APIs of Io will cause a modpost error
> because the rust_build_error symbol is not exported. Details at the issue[1].
>
> Maybe Io should expose compile-time check APIs only when CONFIG_RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW=y?
> The expectation is that a build error should occur when calling `Io::readX` and
> `Io::writeX` due to a boundary check failure, rather than because the
> `rust_build_error` symbol is not exported.
>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1141 [1]

This compilation failure is correct. You're trying to use writeb even
though the size is not known at compile time. You should use
try_writeb instead.

Alice