Re: [PATCH v9 09/13] rust: alloc: add `Box::into_pin`

[Lyude Paul]

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, 2025-02-24 at 13:03 +0100, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
> Add an associated function to convert a `Box<T>` into a `Pin<Box<T>>`.
> 
> Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/alloc/kbox.rs | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc/kbox.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc/kbox.rs
> index cb4ebea3b074..9da4a32e60bc 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/alloc/kbox.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/alloc/kbox.rs
> @@ -245,6 +245,12 @@ pub fn pin(x: T, flags: Flags) -> Result<Pin<Box<T, A>>, AllocError>
>          Ok(Self::new(x, flags)?.into())
>      }
>  
> +    /// Convert a [`Box<T,A>`] to a [`Pin<Box<T,A>>`]. If `T` does not implement
> +    /// [`Unpin`], then `x` will be pinned in memory and can't be moved.
> +    pub fn into_pin(this: Self) -> Pin<Self> {
> +        this.into()
> +    }
> +
>      /// Forgets the contents (does not run the destructor), but keeps the allocation.
>      fn forget_contents(this: Self) -> Box<MaybeUninit<T>, A> {
>          let ptr = Self::into_raw(this);
> 

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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