rust: specify when ARef is thread safe

An `ARef` behaves just like the `Arc` when it comes to thread safety, so
we can reuse the thread safety comments from `Arc` here.

This is necessary because without this change, the Rust compiler will
assume that things are not thread safe even though they are.

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531145939.3714886-4-aliceryhl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Alice Ryhl 2023-05-31 14:59:38 +00:00 committed by Miguel Ojeda
parent d701e061cb
commit be7724cdbb

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@ -321,6 +321,19 @@ pub struct ARef<T: AlwaysRefCounted> {
_p: PhantomData<T>,
}
// SAFETY: It is safe to send `ARef<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync` because
// it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`); additionally, it needs
// `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has an `ARef<T>` may ultimately access `T` using a
// mutable reference, for example, when the reference count reaches zero and `T` is dropped.
unsafe impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted + Sync + Send> Send for ARef<T> {}
// SAFETY: It is safe to send `&ARef<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync`
// because it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`); additionally,
// it needs `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has a `&ARef<T>` may clone it and get an
// `ARef<T>` on that thread, so the thread may ultimately access `T` using a mutable reference, for
// example, when the reference count reaches zero and `T` is dropped.
unsafe impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted + Sync + Send> Sync for ARef<T> {}
impl<T: AlwaysRefCounted> ARef<T> {
/// Creates a new instance of [`ARef`].
///