Re: [PATCH v5 02/15] rust: sync: completion: add wait_for_completion_timeout()

From: Alexandre Courbot

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 07:03:10 EST


On Fri Oct 2, 2026 at 6:50 PM JST, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Wed Sep 30, 2026 at 4:41 AM BST, John Hubbard wrote:
>> From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> A driver that runs an interrupt self-test during probe waits for the
>> handler to fire. wait_for_completion() has no timeout, so a broken
>> interrupt path stalls probe indefinitely. Add a timeout variant of
>> wait_for_completion().
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> [jhubbard: return the remaining jiffies]
>> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This email should have RfL list CC'ed.
>
>> ---
>> rust/kernel/sync/completion.rs | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/completion.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/completion.rs
>> index 35ff049ff078..7e8b3c1c880e 100644
>> --- a/rust/kernel/sync/completion.rs
>> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/completion.rs
>> @@ -6,7 +6,12 @@
>> //!
>> //! C header: [`include/linux/completion.h`](srctree/include/linux/completion.h)
>>
>> -use crate::{bindings, prelude::*, types::Opaque};
>> +use crate::{
>> + bindings,
>> + prelude::*,
>> + time::Jiffies,
>> + types::Opaque, //
>> +};
>>
>> /// Synchronization primitive to signal when a certain task has been completed.
>> ///
>> @@ -111,4 +116,20 @@ pub fn wait_for_completion(&self) {
>> // SAFETY: `self.as_raw()` is a pointer to a valid `struct completion`.
>> unsafe { bindings::wait_for_completion(self.as_raw()) };
>> }
>> +
>> + /// Wait for completion of a task, with a timeout.
>> + ///
>> + /// This method waits for the completion of a task, or until `timeout` elapses. It is not
>> + /// interruptible. Returns the number of jiffies left when the task completed, or [`None`] if
>> + /// `timeout` elapsed first.
>> + ///
>> + /// See also [`Completion::complete_all`].
>> + #[inline]
>> + pub fn wait_for_completion_timeout(&self, timeout: Jiffies) -> Option<Jiffies> {
>
> NACK. Please use the typed `Delta<Jiffy>`, not this old type alias for c_ulong.
> I asked Miguel to take that late last cycle because I know there'll be new users
> that want to use Jiffies this cycle!
>
> This would avoid you having to do clamping on the max side (but you still need
> to clamp the value to be at least 0). There'll be a helper method for this, but
> it isn't available yet.
> https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20261002050428.2746277-3-tomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

I will drop this patch and replace the code using this new method (which
is just an optional probe-time self-test) by a polling loop on an
atomic. That way we can wait for the helper method to be available and
revisit this with the proper type.