Assisting with kernel Rust development

Assisting with kernel Rust development

[Amy Parker]

Hello!

My name is Amy Parker. You may have seen me on the kernel forums before under my previous email address <enbyamy@gmail.com>.

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 represent a zero page instead of DAX_ZERO_PAGE (allowing us to save a constant) - but this failed since the ascending values of other flags conflicted with 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 objectives that need work?

Re: Assisting with kernel Rust development

[Alex Gaynor]

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
<apark0006@student.cerritos.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> My name is Amy Parker. You may have seen me on the kernel forums before under my previous email address <enbyamy@gmail.com>.
>
> 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 represent a zero page instead of DAX_ZERO_PAGE (allowing us to save a constant) - but this failed since the ascending values of other flags conflicted with 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 objectives that need work?
>


-- 
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.

Re: Assisting with kernel Rust development

[Amy Parker]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:23 AM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> 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
> <apark0006@student.cerritos.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > My name is Amy Parker. You may have seen me on the kernel forums before under my previous email address <enbyamy@gmail.com>.
> >
> > 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 represent a zero page instead of DAX_ZERO_PAGE (allowing us to save a constant) - but this failed since the ascending values of other flags conflicted with 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 objectives that need work?
> >
>
>
> --
> All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.

Okay, I will!

Thank you.

    -amyip