Add a safe Rust abstraction for the kernel's scatter-gather list
facilities (`struct scatterlist` and `struct sg_table`).
This commit introduces `SGTable<T>`, a wrapper that uses a generic
parameter to provide compile-time guarantees about ownership and lifetime.
The abstraction provides two primary states:
- `SGTable<Owned<P>>`: Represents a table whose resources are fully
managed by Rust. It takes ownership of a page provider `P`, allocates
the underlying `struct sg_table`, maps it for DMA, and handles all
cleanup automatically upon drop. The DMA mapping's lifetime is tied to
the associated device using `Devres`, ensuring it is correctly unmapped
before the device is unbound.
- `SGTable<Borrowed>` (or just `SGTable`): A zero-cost representation of
an externally managed `struct sg_table`. It is created from a raw
pointer using `SGTable::from_raw()` and provides a lifetime-bound
reference (`&'a SGTable`) for operations like iteration.
The API exposes a safe iterator that yields `&SGEntry` references,
allowing drivers to easily access the DMA address and length of each
segment in the list.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250828133323.53311-4-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Danilo Krummrich