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Subject[PATCH 2/7] rust: sync: allow type of `self` to be `Arc<T>` or variants
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This allows associated functions whose `self` argument has `Arc<T>` or
variants as their type. This, in turn, allows callers to use the dot
syntax to make calls.

Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
---
rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +
rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
index ace064a3702a..1a10f7c0ddd9 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#![no_std]
#![feature(allocator_api)]
#![feature(core_ffi_c)]
+#![feature(receiver_trait)]

// Ensure conditional compilation based on the kernel configuration works;
// otherwise we may silently break things like initcall handling.
diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
index 22290eb5ab9b..e2eb0e67d483 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,31 @@ use core::{marker::PhantomData, ops::Deref, ptr::NonNull};
///
/// // The refcount drops to zero when `cloned` goes out of scope, and the memory is freed.
/// ```
+///
+/// Using `Arc<T>` as the type of `self`:
+///
+/// ```
+/// use kernel::sync::Arc;
+///
+/// struct Example {
+/// a: u32,
+/// b: u32,
+/// }
+///
+/// impl Example {
+/// fn take_over(self: Arc<Self>) {
+/// // ...
+/// }
+///
+/// fn use_reference(self: &Arc<Self>) {
+/// // ...
+/// }
+/// }
+///
+/// let obj = Arc::try_new(Example { a: 10, b: 20 })?;
+/// obj.use_reference();
+/// obj.take_over();
+/// ```
pub struct Arc<T: ?Sized> {
ptr: NonNull<ArcInner<T>>,
_p: PhantomData<ArcInner<T>>,
@@ -68,6 +93,9 @@ struct ArcInner<T: ?Sized> {
data: T,
}

+// This is to allow [`Arc`] (and variants) to be used as the type of `self`.
+impl<T: ?Sized> core::ops::Receiver for Arc<T> {}
+
// SAFETY: It is safe to send `Arc<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync` because
// it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`); additionally, it needs
// `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has an `Arc<T>` may ultimately access `T` directly, for
--
2.34.1
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