Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] rust: task: add safe schedule_timeout() wrapper

[FUJITA Tomonori <tomo@flapping.org>]

On Thu,  5 Nov 2026 01:59:38 +0100
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> wrote:

> Add a safe wrapper around schedule_timeout() that takes and returns
> Jiffies, handling the c_long conversion internally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

[...]

> +/// Sleeps for the given timeout in [`Jiffies`], or until woken.
> +///
> +/// Returns the remaining time in [`Jiffies`], or zero if the timeout expired.  The task state
> +/// should be set before calling this.
> +///
> +/// Timeouts at or above [`MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT`] mean an indefinite wait. In that case, the return
> +/// value is `MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT` as [`Jiffies`].
> +#[inline]
> +pub fn schedule_timeout(timeout: Jiffies) -> Jiffies {
> +    let timeout = timeout.try_into().unwrap_or(MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);

The Jiffies alias will be removed, so could you use Delta<Jiffy> here
instead? I think the code would be almost the same as in my patch that
converts condvar [1].

This series conflicts with that patch. Boqun, how would you like to
merge them?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20261104235929.1282640-1-tomo@flapping.org/