rust: sync: add `Arc::ptr_eq`

Add a method for comparing whether two `Arc` pointers reference the same
underlying object.

This comparison can already be done by getting a reference to the inner
values and comparing whether the references have the same address.
However, writing `Arc::ptr_eq(a, b)` is generally less error-prone than
doing the same check on the references, since you might otherwise
accidentally compare the two `&Arc<T>` references instead, which wont
work because those are pointers to pointers to the inner value, when you
just want to compare the pointers to the inner value.

Also, this method might optimize better because getting a reference to
the inner value involves offsetting the pointer, which this method does
not need to do.

Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230517200814.3157916-1-aliceryhl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
index 1b0734fdf6a74d..b03d84f7ce8752 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ impl<T: ?Sized> Arc<T> {
         // reference can be created.
         unsafe { ArcBorrow::new(self.ptr) }
     }
+
+    /// Compare whether two [`Arc`] pointers reference the same underlying object.
+    pub fn ptr_eq(this: &Self, other: &Self) -> bool {
+        core::ptr::eq(this.ptr.as_ptr(), other.ptr.as_ptr())
+    }
 }
 
 impl<T: 'static> ForeignOwnable for Arc<T> {