path: root/rust/kernel/init.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT

//! API to safely and fallibly initialize pinned `struct`s using in-place constructors.
//!
//! It also allows in-place initialization of big `struct`s that would otherwise produce a stack
//! overflow.
//!
//! Most `struct`s from the [`sync`] module need to be pinned, because they contain self-referential
//! `struct`s from C. [Pinning][pinning] is Rust's way of ensuring data does not move.
//!
//! # Overview
//!
//! To initialize a `struct` with an in-place constructor you will need two things:
//! - an in-place constructor,
//! - a memory location that can hold your `struct` (this can be the [stack], an [`Arc<T>`],
//!   [`UniqueArc<T>`], [`Box<T>`] or any other smart pointer that implements [`InPlaceInit`]).
//!
//! To get an in-place constructor there are generally three options:
//! - directly creating an in-place constructor using the [`pin_init!`] macro,
//! - a custom function/macro returning an in-place constructor provided by someone else,
//! - using the unsafe function [`pin_init_from_closure()`] to manually create an initializer.
//!
//! Aside from pinned initialization, this API also supports in-place construction without pinning,
//! the macros/types/functions are generally named like the pinned variants without the `pin`
//! prefix.
//!
//! # Examples
//!
//! ## Using the [`pin_init!`] macro
//!
//! If you want to use [`PinInit`], then you will have to annotate your `struct` with
//! `#[`[`pin_data`]`]`. It is a macro that uses `#[pin]` as a marker for
//! [structurally pinned fields]. After doing this, you can then create an in-place constructor via
//! [`pin_init!`]. The syntax is almost the same as normal `struct` initializers. The difference is
//! that you need to write `<-` instead of `:` for fields that you want to initialize in-place.
//!
//! ```rust
//! # #![allow(clippy::disallowed_names, clippy::new_ret_no_self)]
//! use kernel::{prelude::*, sync::Mutex, new_mutex};
//! # use core::pin::Pin;
//! #[pin_data]
//! struct Foo {
//!     #[pin]
//!     a: Mutex<usize>,
//!     b: u32,
//! }
//!
//! let foo = pin_init!(Foo {
//!     a <- new_mutex!(42, "Foo::a"),
//!     b: 24,
//! });
//! ```
//!
//! `foo` now is of the type [`impl PinInit<Foo>`]. We can now use any smart pointer that we like
//! (or just the stack) to actually initialize a `Foo`:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # #![allow(clippy::disallowed_names, clippy::new_ret_no_self)]
//! # use kernel::{prelude::*, sync::Mutex, new_mutex};
//! # use core::pin::Pin;
//! # #[pin_data]
//! # struct Foo {
//! #     #[pin]
//! #     a: Mutex<usize>,
//! #     b: u32,
//! # }
//! # let foo = pin_init!(Foo {
//! #     a <- new_mutex!(42, "Foo::a"),
//! #     b: 24,
//! # });
//! let foo: Result<Pin<Box<Foo>>> = Box::pin_init(foo);
//! ```
//!
//! For more information see the [`pin_init!`] macro.
//!
//! ## Using a custom function/macro that returns an initializer
//!
//! Many types from the kernel supply a function/macro that returns an initializer, because the
//! above method only works for types where you can access the fields.
//!
//! ```rust
//! # use kernel::{new_mutex, sync::{Arc, Mutex}};
//! let mtx: Result<Arc<Mutex<usize>>> = Arc::pin_init(new_mutex!(42, "example::mtx"));
//! ```
//!
//! To declare an init macro/function you just return an [`impl PinInit<T, E>`]:
//!
//! ```rust
//! # #![allow(clippy::disallowed_names, clippy::new_ret_no_self)]
//! # use kernel::{sync::Mutex, prelude::*, new_mutex, init::PinInit, try_pin_init};
//! #[pin_data]
//! struct DriverData {
//!     #[pin]
//!     status: Mutex<i32>,
//!     buffer: Box<[u8; 1_000_000]>,
//! }
//!
//! impl DriverData {
//!     fn new() -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> {
//!         try_pin_init!(Self {
//!             status <- new_mutex!(0, "DriverData::status"),
//!             buffer: Box::init(kernel::init::zeroed())?,
//!         })
//!     }
//! }
//! ```
//!