rust: Add Ownable/Owned types

By analogy to AlwaysRefCounted and ARef, an Ownable type is a (typically
C FFI) type that *may* be owned by Rust, but need not be. Unlike
AlwaysRefCounted, this mechanism expects the reference to be unique
within Rust, and does not allow cloning.

Conceptually, this is similar to a KBox<T>, except that it delegates
resource management to the T instead of using a generic allocator.

Signed-off-by: Asahi Lina <[email protected]>

Author: hoshinolina

rust/kernel/types.rs

@@ -428,6 +428,114 @@ impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted> Drop for ARef<T> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Types that may be owned by Rust code or borrowed, but have a lifetime managed by C code.
+///
+/// It allows such types to define their own custom destructor function to be called when
+/// a Rust-owned reference is dropped.
+///
+/// This is usually implemented by wrappers to existing structures on the C side of the code.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// Implementers must ensure that any objects borrowed directly stay alive for the duration
+/// of the borrow lifetime, and that any objects deemed owned by Rust stay alive while
+/// that owned reference exists, until the [`Ownable::release()`] function is called.
+pub unsafe trait Ownable {
+    /// Releases the object (frees it or returns it to foreign ownership).
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// Callers must ensure that the object is no longer referenced after this call.
+    unsafe fn release(this: NonNull<Self>);
+}
+
+/// A subtrait of Ownable that asserts that an Owned<T> Rust reference is not only unique
+/// within Rust, but also follows the same rules in kernel C code. That is, the kernel
+/// will never mutate the contents of the object while Rust owns it.
+///
+/// When this type is implemented for an Ownable type, it allows Owned<T> to be dereferenced
+/// into a &mut T.
+
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// Implementers must ensure that the kernel never mutates the underlying type while
+/// Rust owns it.
+pub unsafe trait OwnableMut: Ownable {}
+
+/// An owned reference to an ownable kernel object.
+///
+/// The object is automatically freed or released when an instance of [`Owned`] is
+/// dropped.
+///
+/// # Invariants
+///
+/// The pointer stored in `ptr` is non-null and valid for the lifetime of the [`Owned`] instance.
+pub struct Owned<T: Ownable> {
+    ptr: NonNull<T>,
+    _p: PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+// SAFETY: It is safe to send `Owned<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Send` because
+// it effectively means sharing `&mut T` (which is safe because `T` is `Send`).
+unsafe impl<T: Ownable + Send> Send for Owned<T> {}
+
+// SAFETY: It is safe to send `&Owned<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync`
+// because it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`).
+unsafe impl<T: Ownable + Sync> Sync for Owned<T> {}
+
+impl<T: Ownable> Owned<T> {
+    /// Creates a new instance of [`Owned`].
+    ///
+    /// It takes over ownership of the underlying object.
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// Callers must ensure that the underlying object is acquired and can be considered owned by
+    /// Rust.
+    pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: NonNull<T>) -> Self {
+        // INVARIANT: The safety requirements guarantee that the new instance now owns the
+        // reference.
+        Self {
+            ptr,
+            _p: PhantomData,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Consumes the `Owned`, returning a raw pointer.
+    ///
+    /// This function does not actually relinquish ownership of the object.
+    /// After calling this function, the caller is responsible for ownership previously managed
+    /// by the `Owned`.
+    pub fn into_raw(me: Self) -> NonNull<T> {
+        ManuallyDrop::new(me).ptr
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: Ownable> Deref for Owned<T> {
+    type Target = T;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        // SAFETY: The type invariants guarantee that the object is valid.
+        unsafe { self.ptr.as_ref() }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: Ownable + OwnableMut> DerefMut for Owned<T> {
+    fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Target {
+        // SAFETY: The type invariants guarantee that the object is valid,
+        // and that we can safely return a mutable reference to it.
+        unsafe { self.ptr.as_mut() }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: Ownable> Drop for Owned<T> {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        // SAFETY: The type invariants guarantee that the `Owned` owns the object we're about to
+        // release.
+        unsafe { T::release(self.ptr) };
+    }
+}
+
 /// A sum type that always holds either a value of type `L` or `R`.
 ///
 /// # Examples