Struct CoherentBox 

pub struct CoherentBox<T: KnownSize + ?Sized>(/* private fields */);

CPU-owned DMA allocation that can be converted into a device-shared Coherent object.

Unlike Coherent, a CoherentBox is guaranteed to be fully owned by the CPU – its DMA address is not exposed and it cannot be accessed by a device. This means it can safely be used like a normal boxed allocation (e.g. direct reads, writes, and mutable slices are all safe).

A typical use is to allocate a CoherentBox, populate it with normal CPU access, and then convert it into a Coherent object to share it with the device.

Examples

CoherentBox<T>:

use kernel::dma::{attrs::*,
    Coherent,
    CoherentBox,
};

let mut dmem: CoherentBox<u64> = CoherentBox::zeroed(dev, GFP_KERNEL)?;
*dmem = 42;
let dmem: Coherent<u64> = dmem.into();

CoherentBox<[T]>:

use kernel::dma::{attrs::*,
    Coherent,
    CoherentBox,
};

let mut dmem: CoherentBox<[u64]> = CoherentBox::zeroed_slice(dev, 4, GFP_KERNEL)?;
dmem.fill(42);
let dmem: Coherent<[u64]> = dmem.into();

Implementations

impl<T: AsBytes + FromBytes> CoherentBox<[T]>

pub fn zeroed_slice_with_attrs( dev: &Device<Bound>, count: usize, gfp_flags: Flags, dma_attrs: Attrs, ) -> Result<Self>

CoherentBox variant of Coherent::zeroed_slice_with_attrs.

pub fn zeroed_slice( dev: &Device<Bound>, count: usize, gfp_flags: Flags, ) -> Result<Self>

Same as CoherentBox::zeroed_slice_with_attrs, but with dma::Attrs(0).

pub fn init_at<E>(&mut self, i: usize, init: impl Init<T, E>) -> Result

where Error: From<E>,

Initializes the element at i using the given initializer.

Returns EINVAL if i is out of bounds.

impl<T: AsBytes + FromBytes> CoherentBox<T>

pub fn zeroed_with_attrs( dev: &Device<Bound>, gfp_flags: Flags, dma_attrs: Attrs, ) -> Result<Self>

Same as CoherentBox::zeroed_slice_with_attrs, but for a single element.

pub fn zeroed(dev: &Device<Bound>, gfp_flags: Flags) -> Result<Self>

Same as CoherentBox::zeroed_slice, but for a single element.

Trait Implementations

impl<T: KnownSize + ?Sized> Deref for CoherentBox<T>

type Target = T

The resulting type after dereferencing.

fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target

Dereferences the value.

impl<T: AsBytes + FromBytes + KnownSize + ?Sized> DerefMut for CoherentBox<T>

fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Target

Mutably dereferences the value.

impl<T: AsBytes + FromBytes + KnownSize + ?Sized> From<CoherentBox<T>> for Coherent<T>

fn from(value: CoherentBox<T>) -> Self

Converts to this type from the input type.