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surface-camera-build b9a7b8d8f3 cubelinux: cube(2) walks the store — CUBE_OP_ENUM and CUBE_OP_SPACES
Enumeration was the one operation the interface did not have, and the one a
capability interface owes an explanation for: a listing is the opposite of
"knowing a coordinate is the authorisation to use it". So the walk is bounded
and explicit. A caller names the space, holds a cursor, and gets as many whole
records as fit in the buffer it offered, packed `key(24) | value_len(u32) | value`
in the store's own order. SPACES walks the distinct spaces that hold a record,
one per call; range is that walk with the region as a filter, applied by the
caller rather than by a second operation in the kernel.

Its own argument block, versioned by its own size: SYSCALL_DEFINE2 peeks `size`
and routes — 80 bytes is the coordinate block, 64 is this one. An interface that
cannot grow has to be replaced, and this one grows by being given a new block.

The end of a walk is the cursor alone. A batch holds as many whole records as
fit, so it is FULL only when a record lands on the boundary and most batches
come back short; a caller that reads "the buffer was not filled" as "the space
is exhausted" truncates its listing to the first batch and cannot tell. ENUM
answers a finished walk with no records and the cursor unmoved; SPACES answers
it with -ENOENT, because the space after the last one is not there. That rule is
in the uapi header because it is a contract detail, not an implementation one.

The kernel caches no merged index: each call walks the records in order, asks
the log — small, and the only thing that can override one — what the winner is,
and skips what the cursor has already covered. O(records) a call, tens of
milliseconds for the live store, which is worth more than a cache every write
would have to invalidate.
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* CUBELinux: the `cube(2)` syscall — the kernel's coordinate interface.
*
* The store's operations live in Rust (drivers/cube/cubelinux_store.rs) and are already
* proven: they append to a write-ahead log durably, replay it, fold it into the image, and
* survive a torn tail. What was missing was a way for a program to *call* them. This file is
* that way and nothing else.
*
* Why C for the entry point: syscalls are defined by `SYSCALL_DEFINE*`, which is a C macro
* that registers the function in the syscall table with the right calling convention. Rust in
* this kernel cannot define one, so the entry point, the user copies and the argument
* validation are here, and the Rust side sees only kernel memory and validated numbers. That
* split is deliberate: everything that touches a userspace pointer is in one place, and
* everything that touches the store's bytes is in the other.
*/
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/cube.h>
/*
* Implemented in Rust. The coordinate is passed as its parts rather than as a struct, so the
* format knowledge on the Rust side stays in the module that owns it — including the Morton
* encoding, which must produce exactly the key a userspace reader decodes.
*/
int cubelinux_kernel_put(const __u8 *space, __u64 x, __u64 y, __u64 z,
const void *value, size_t len);
ssize_t cubelinux_kernel_get(const __u8 *space, __u64 x, __u64 y, __u64 z,
void *buf, size_t len);
int cubelinux_kernel_del(const __u8 *space, __u64 x, __u64 y, __u64 z);
int cubelinux_kernel_sync(void);
/*
* The walk (CUBE_OP_ENUM / CUBE_OP_SPACES). Its argument block travels through the same syscall
* but is a different struct, so these take the pieces rather than a pointer to one — and the C
* side keeps owning everything that touches a userspace pointer.
*/
int cubelinux_kernel_enum(const __u8 *space, __u64 cursor, void *buf, size_t cap,
__u64 *out_len, __u64 *out_cursor);
int cubelinux_kernel_spaces(__u64 cursor, __u8 *space_out);
/* The store device path, resolved from the `cube_store=` boot parameter at boot. */
const char *cubelinux_store_device(void);
/*
* Where the store lives.
*
* A fixed `/dev/vda` was honest while a virtual machine was the only place this ran; the same
* driver now has to read the box's own device as well, and a constant cannot be both. So it is
* a boot parameter, and the box names its device on the kernel command line:
*
* cube_store=/dev/nvme0n1p2
*
* (`__setup` rather than `module_param_string`, deliberately. Built-in code registers module
* parameters under its *object's* name — `MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX` is `KBUILD_MODNAME "."` when
* MODULE is not defined — so a `module_param_string` here would answer to
* `cube_syscall.store_device`, named after this file rather than after the driver. That is a
* name nobody would guess and one more thing to get wrong at 3am. A `__setup` parameter is
* named exactly as written.)
*
* This lives in C because this kernel's Rust can express only *integer* module parameters —
* rust/kernel/module_param.rs implements `ModuleParam` through `ParseInt` and nothing else —
* and a path is not an integer. The Rust side asks for the string; it does not store it.
*
* The default keeps the boot gate's shape, so the QEMU rehearsal is unchanged.
*/
static char store_device_path[256] = "/dev/vda";
static int __init cube_store_setup(char *str)
{
strscpy(store_device_path, str, sizeof(store_device_path));
return 1;
}
__setup("cube_store=", cube_store_setup);
/* The Rust half reads the path through this; the storage stays here. */
const char *cubelinux_store_device(void)
{
return store_device_path;
}
/* No value may be larger than this in one call. A coordinate store is not a bulk-file path;
* a caller with more than this to store has more than one record to store. */
#define CUBE_MAX_VALUE (16u * 1024u * 1024u)
/* The walk's buffer ceiling: the caller offers whatever it likes, up to this. */
#define CUBE_MAX_WALK (16u * 1024u * 1024u)
/*
* The coordinate operations — put, get, del, sync — which travel in `struct cube_args`.
*/
static long cube_args_op(unsigned int op, void __user *uargs)
{
struct cube_args args;
void *buf = NULL;
long ret = 0;
if (copy_from_user(&args, uargs, sizeof(args)))
return -EFAULT;
/*
* The size is the caller's, and it must be the one this kernel implements: a caller
* built against a later block would otherwise have fields silently ignored.
*/
if (args.size != sizeof(struct cube_args))
return -EINVAL;
switch (op) {
case CUBE_OP_PUT:
case CUBE_OP_GET:
break;
case CUBE_OP_DEL:
case CUBE_OP_SYNC:
break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
if (op == CUBE_OP_PUT || op == CUBE_OP_GET) {
if (args.len > CUBE_MAX_VALUE)
return -E2BIG;
if (args.len > 0) {
buf = kvmalloc(args.len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
}
}
switch (op) {
case CUBE_OP_PUT:
if (args.len > 0 &&
copy_from_user(buf, (void __user *)args.value, args.len)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
break;
}
ret = cubelinux_kernel_put(args.coord.space, args.coord.x,
args.coord.y, args.coord.z, buf, args.len);
break;
case CUBE_OP_GET: {
ssize_t got;
got = cubelinux_kernel_get(args.coord.space, args.coord.x,
args.coord.y, args.coord.z, buf, args.len);
if (got < 0) {
ret = got;
break;
}
if ((u64)got > args.len) {
/*
* Too small. Tell the caller how much it needs, so a read is two
* calls at worst and never a guess.
*/
args.len = (u64)got;
if (copy_to_user(uargs, &args, sizeof(args)))
ret = -EFAULT;
else
ret = -ERANGE;
break;
}
if (got > 0 && copy_to_user((void __user *)args.value, buf, got)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
break;
}
args.len = (u64)got;
if (copy_to_user(uargs, &args, sizeof(args)))
ret = -EFAULT;
break;
}
case CUBE_OP_DEL:
ret = cubelinux_kernel_del(args.coord.space, args.coord.x,
args.coord.y, args.coord.z);
break;
case CUBE_OP_SYNC:
ret = cubelinux_kernel_sync();
break;
}
kvfree(buf);
return ret;
}
/*
* The walk — enum and spaces — which travel in `struct cube_enum_args`: its own block so that the
* coordinate is not both an input and an output, and so the interface can grow by getting a new
* size rather than being replaced.
*
* A batch fills the caller's buffer and returns how much was used plus the cursor to pass next.
* A record that does not fit ends the batch; a record that cannot fit in any buffer the caller
* offered comes back as -ERANGE with `len` saying what it would need, exactly as a read does. So
* nobody guesses a size and nobody gets half a record.
*/
static long cube_enum_op(unsigned int op, void __user *uargs)
{
struct cube_enum_args e;
void *buf = NULL;
long ret = 0;
u64 out_len = 0, out_cursor = 0;
if (copy_from_user(&e, uargs, sizeof(e)))
return -EFAULT;
if (e.size != sizeof(struct cube_enum_args))
return -EINVAL;
if (op == CUBE_OP_SPACES) {
__u8 found[32];
ret = cubelinux_kernel_spaces(e.cursor, found);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
memcpy(e.space, found, sizeof(found));
/* An index here, not a count of records: hand back the one after this space. */
e.cursor = e.cursor + 1;
e.len = 0;
if (copy_to_user(uargs, &e, sizeof(e)))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
}
if (op != CUBE_OP_ENUM)
return -EINVAL;
if (e.len > CUBE_MAX_WALK)
return -E2BIG;
if (e.len > 0) {
buf = kvmalloc(e.len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
}
ret = cubelinux_kernel_enum(e.space, e.cursor, buf, e.len, &out_len, &out_cursor);
if (ret == 0) {
if (out_len > 0 && copy_to_user((void __user *)e.value, buf, out_len))
ret = -EFAULT;
e.len = out_len;
e.cursor = out_cursor;
if (copy_to_user(uargs, &e, sizeof(e)))
ret = -EFAULT;
} else if (ret == -ERANGE) {
/* Nothing was written; `len` now says how much one record needs. */
e.len = out_len;
if (copy_to_user(uargs, &e, sizeof(e)))
ret = -EFAULT;
}
kvfree(buf);
return ret;
}
/*
* One syscall, two argument blocks. They share a prefix — `size`, then `op` — so the size the
* caller declares is what says which one arrived. That is the whole point of putting `size`
* first: an interface that cannot grow has to be replaced, and this one grows by being given a
* new block with a new size.
*/
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(cube, unsigned int, op, void __user *, uargs)
{
__u32 size;
if (copy_from_user(&size, uargs, sizeof(size)))
return -EFAULT;
if (size == sizeof(struct cube_args))
return cube_args_op(op, uargs);
if (size == sizeof(struct cube_enum_args))
return cube_enum_op(op, uargs);
return -EINVAL;
}