rust: test serde support

A trivial example based on `serde`'s `example-format' [1].

It contains both a in-`kernel` data format later used by
the kernel module, as well as a local data format in
the module.

The kernel module gives an output such as:

    [    0.801425] rust_serde: Rust serde sample (init)
    [    0.801634] rust_serde:             original = S { a: (), b: false, c: true, d: () }
    [    0.802079] rust_serde:           serialized = [2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 3]
    [    0.802506] rust_serde:         deserialized = S { a: (), b: false, c: true, d: () }
    [    0.802718] rust_serde:   serialized (local) = [2, 0, 1, 42, 1, 43, 0, 3]
    [    0.802895] rust_serde: deserialized (local) = S { a: (), b: false, c: true, d: () }
    [    0.808954] rust_serde: Rust serde sample (exit)

Note that this is just a quick draft/hack to check the previous
commits work. It is not intended to be merged at all.

Link: https://github.com/serde-rs/example-format [1]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>

Author: ojeda

rust/kernel/error.rs

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ impl From<core::convert::Infallible> for Error {
 /// Note that even if a function does not return anything when it succeeds,
 /// it should still be modeled as returning a `Result` rather than
 /// just an [`Error`].
-pub type Result<T = ()> = core::result::Result<T, Error>;
+pub type Result<T = (), E = Error> = core::result::Result<T, E>;
 
 /// Converts an integer as returned by a C kernel function to an error if it's negative, and
 /// `Ok(())` otherwise.

rust/kernel/lib.rs

@@ -101,3 +101,5 @@ fn panic(info: &core::panic::PanicInfo<'_>) -> ! {
     // instead of `!`. See <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2094>.
     loop {}
 }
+
+pub mod test_serde;

rust/kernel/test_serde.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT
+
+//! Test `serde`.
+//!
+//! It contains a data format used by the `rust_serde` sample, as well
+//! as a quick check that `serde_derive` works in the `kernel` crate too.
+
+#![allow(missing_docs)]
+
+mod de;
+mod error;
+mod ser;
+
+pub use de::{from_bytes, Deserializer};
+pub use error::{Error, Result};
+pub use ser::{to_vec, Serializer};
+
+use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
+pub struct S {
+    a: (),
+    b: bool,
+    c: bool,
+    d: (),
+}