From: Deborah Brouwer <deborah.brouwer@collabora.com>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, karunika.choo@arm.com,
boris.brezillon@collabora.com, laura.nao@collabora.com,
steven.price@arm.com, liviu.dudau@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/tyr: gpu_info: zero out new/unused fields
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:27:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arRua6cN7FXIDOvF@um790> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH5fLghN0w908Z-MYDfmaeC7gvAB78MMT7zg599=1kU0HexkOw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 09:42:23AM +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 1:16 AM Deborah Brouwer
> <deborah.brouwer@collabora.com> wrote:
> >
> > If a new field is added to the struct drm_panthor_gpu_info in the panthor
> > uapi, Tyr must initialize this field or it will cause a compile error.
> >
> > To pre-emptively avoid compile errors, use ..pin_init::zeroed() to zero
> > out all new fields added to this struct. Tyr can subsequently change the
> > initialization as necessary. Also use it instead of manually zeroing out
> > existing fields at the end of the struct.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Deborah Brouwer <deborah.brouwer@collabora.com>
>
> Merged into drm-rust-next, thanks!
>
> With regards to sashiko bot, we should look into whether the
> MaybeZeroable that bindgen adds to structs applies on this struct. If
> so, we can remove our unsafe impl block. But it's not an issue in this
> patch.
I couldn't use MaybeZeroable directly but if I add IntoBytes and
Immutable then we can stop implementing unsafe trait AsBytes. Could you
please review:
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260923-b4-gpu_info_intobytes-v1-1-bb2173f91e11@collabora.com/
>
> Alice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 23:16 Deborah Brouwer
2026-09-23 7:42 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-09-24 0:27 ` Deborah Brouwer [this message]
2026-09-24 7:11 ` Alice Ryhl
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