[PATCH v7 1/8] rust: alloc: add Vec::zeroed method
Timur Tabi <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:10:10 -0500
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.nova-gpu,dev.linux.lists.driver-core,org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Add a constructor for kernel Vec that allocates a vector of a given length with all elements zero-initialized. Memory is allocated with the __GFP_ZERO flag, matching the existing KBox::zeroed() pattern. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]> --- rust/kernel/alloc/kvec.rs | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc/kvec.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc/kvec.rs index f7af62835aa8..c7546b9da4fa 100644 --- a/rust/kernel/alloc/kvec.rs +++ b/rust/kernel/alloc/kvec.rs @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Vmalloc, VmallocPageIter, // }, + flags::__GFP_ZERO, layout::ArrayLayout, AllocError, Allocator, @@ -51,6 +52,8 @@ }, // }; +use pin_init::Zeroable; + mod errors; pub use self::errors::{InsertError, PushError, RemoveError}; @@ -532,6 +535,30 @@ pub fn with_capacity(capacity: usize, flags: Flags) -> Result<Self, AllocError> Ok(v) } + /// Creates a new [`Vec`] with `n` zero-initialized elements. + /// + /// # Examples + /// + /// ``` + /// let v = KVec::<u32>::zeroed(20, GFP_KERNEL)?; + /// + /// assert!(v.iter().all(|&x| x == 0)); + /// # Ok::<(), Error>(()) + /// ``` + pub fn zeroed(n: usize, flags: Flags) -> Result<Self, AllocError> + where + T: Zeroable, + { + let mut v = Self::with_capacity(n, flags | __GFP_ZERO)?; + + // SAFETY: + // - `n <= capacity - len`: `with_capacity(n)` guarantees capacity >= n, len is 0. + // - All elements in `[0, n)` are initialized: `__GFP_ZERO` zeroes the allocation, + // and `T: Zeroable` guarantees all-zeroes is a valid bit pattern. + unsafe { v.inc_len(n) }; + Ok(v) + } + /// Creates a `Vec<T, A>` from a pointer, a length and a capacity using the allocator `A`. /// /// # Examples -- 2.54.0