From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E52C07E96 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3164661C24 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230237AbhGFRmt (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:42:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46650 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230504AbhGFRmt (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:42:49 -0400 Received: from mail-lf1-x135.google.com (mail-lf1-x135.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::135]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F255FC06175F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2021 10:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lf1-x135.google.com with SMTP id f30so39716056lfj.1 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:40:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=student-cerritos-edu.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VECzJml5k1hAS1TG8HVcjo85RdI8u0a+vF3JU1M+Re8=; b=o4KJCtYhMqkrrzgdzNgeRRJS+pof3hn6ZCN20b5yf6WIIFEB8/LHAdeMbfa3mfb5Is 7KTGu6SCPjJ808xgHZjX2Vbt0cJrfnf/csinvkbdOaNyTIuS95ilCpFWKuWdEBTpBYrE H3lElOc5svi/s6936DcMvdagVwz3Z8VIBsy+nCZSdJbxVgqvv33E76gaCrOwPeZx/Ljl reW9w7Yn3ZvbFB2UP4Yvj/bIYxrQtQjeztI3hvegtZtAgRBQ3/BS8ZaUZTOtTu+H1MDz Tpucl6qWxLqWSIwrkK6UY5Uo7e7x9kPKvARfXZ+9Yt4xhF+2L++AZtv2gf6YEQmt65dO g1rg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VECzJml5k1hAS1TG8HVcjo85RdI8u0a+vF3JU1M+Re8=; b=HfjD1dgLBQP4JXoHtNsidi2OwlAvyC4oM0DiJJhTPZ5qLz22i3oQD5BFjeyeP+pshl wUi9JMYRFkIaml5Np0laGn98NanTAcWyk/YU2Tztze62CtZKD5TJ8/8o3/D6LP/nyKTP YO4jYnCfBX8Er8rnV2BuThP2wsX/JMKsCNBil7fK9fOTJMAIbNhZCM+PgKrSV7qC69Sq 7joMBMyPzpvLEv9EyqdqJvs+gVIEPispSpOKFFOKqHUP2T0JS8f/txnXARCqgrP1FWxE 2z+/wP2Lz8vXL++8jJEqnr1y+eg5d9LNdsZO3OGnBbP2PgPW/Fy4FdXjnA55qGH5IDJN PbxA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533ytmkbuUmCMgYGMCPWgGVU3sCxKv3JTYuNujBG0QVCiKa8dpHY zxnVKZXX/VLN8zTlpx2dCMBLaHeU6kuU191eXU90cA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJw4wgPDcD4BQrHtsunVukrFtdauutHMqD8rIyt/Kq0mO7yQRWJs55kFueZlhPuvDOdsBIvwRs7jDOVDppAZ0oc= X-Received: by 2002:a19:614c:: with SMTP id m12mr11311942lfk.119.1625593208352; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:40:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Amy Parker Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 10:39:56 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Assisting with kernel Rust development To: Alex Gaynor Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:23 AM Alex Gaynor wrote: > > Hi Amy, > > Glad to hear you're interested! We've got a whole bunch of open bugs > on https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues, so that's always a > starting point for looking for things to work on. > > Cheers, > Alex > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 1:19 PM Amy Parker > wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > My name is Amy Parker. You may have seen me on the kernel forums before= under my previous email address . > > > > It's been a while since I've attempted to contribute to the kernel, so = I figured I'd post here. My previous attempt had been under Matthew Wilcox'= s direction to modify the DAX driver for NVDIMMs to use XA_ZERO_ENTRY to re= present a zero page instead of DAX_ZERO_PAGE (allowing us to save a constan= t) - but this failed since the ascending values of other flags conflicted w= ith the value presented by XA_ZERO_ENTRY. > > > > I saw the recent patch sequence adding Rust support to the kernel. As a= Rust developer, I figured I could get back into kernel development because= of this, and was wondering how I could help. Are there any active objectiv= es that need work? > > > > > -- > All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothin= g. Okay, I will! Thank you. -amyip