Binder (Android's core IPC) Rust rewrite posted to LKML in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Tobu@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Distros will work a bit at shipping the right toolchain the first time they ship a rust-written module, but otherwise, it can't break userspace. I guess they'll start by merging the close reimplementation to make regressions easy to track.

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Binder (Android's core IPC) Rust rewrite posted to LKML (lore.kernel.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Tobu@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Performance is basically the same (in microbenchmarks), they went as far as preserving the use of red black trees for an apples to apples comparison, but it's going to improve security as binder runs inside every process.

That means binder is going to join Asahi graphics, the Android Bluetooth stack, and puzzlefs in the serious drivers written in Rust club.

Bcachefs has been merged into Linux 6.7 in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Tobu@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Happy happy joy! I've been using it for a year already, as it is simpler to manage than luks + lvm + bcache + whatever FS.

It has been entirely unproblematic through frequent kernel upgrades; caching, background compression and encryption just work.

I'm very glad it made it in; it deserves wider adoption.

Tobu

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