[$] FFI type mismatches in Rust for Linux

Date:
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:56:48 +0000

Description:
At Kangrejos, Gary Guo wanted to discuss three problems with the way
Rust and C code in the kernel interact: mismatched types, too many type casts, and the overhead of helper functions. To fix the first two problems, Guo proposed
changing the way the kernel maps C types into Rust types. The last problem
was a
bit trickier, but he has a clever workaround for that, based on tricking
the compiler into inlining the helper functions across language boundaries.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/993163/


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