Re: [PATCH v4] rust: adding UniqueRefCounted and UniqueRef types

From: Andreas Hindborg
Date: Wed Mar 05 2025 - 10:42:25 EST


"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@xxxxx> wrote:
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> What is the use-case for these abstractions?

Missed this Q. It is for asserting uniqueness of a reference to a block
layer request [1].


Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg



[1] https://github.com/metaspace/linux/blob/44dd1c6eff584475f13e2a73eb4ad25df17d0d55/rust/kernel/block/mq/request.rs#L406