Clarify and restrict when `{Arc,Rc}::get_unchecked_mut` is allowed.
(Tracking issue for `{Arc,Rc}::get_unchecked_mut`: #63292)
(I'm using `Rc` in this comment, but it applies for `Arc` all the same).
As currently documented, `Rc::get_unchecked_mut` can lead to unsoundness when multiple `Rc`/`Weak` pointers to the same allocation exist. The current documentation only requires that other `Rc`/`Weak` pointers to the same allocation "must not be dereferenced for the duration of the returned borrow". This can lead to unsoundness in (at least) two ways: variance, and `Rc<str>`/`Rc<[u8]>` aliasing. ([playground link](https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=d7e2d091c389f463d121630ab0a37320)).
This PR changes the documentation of `Rc::get_unchecked_mut` to restrict usage to when all `Rc<T>`/`Weak<T>` have the exact same `T` (including lifetimes). I believe this is sufficient to prevent unsoundness, while still allowing `get_unchecked_mut` to be called on an aliased `Rc` as long as the safety contract is upheld by the caller.
## Alternatives
* A less strict, but still sound alternative would be to say that the caller must only write values which are valid for all aliased `Rc`/`Weak` inner types. (This was [mentioned](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63292#issuecomment-568284090) in the tracking issue). This may be too complicated to clearly express in the documentation.
* A more strict alternative would be to say that there must not be any aliased `Rc`/`Weak` pointers, i.e. it is required that get_mut would return `Some(_)`. (This was also mentioned in the tracking issue). There is at least one codebase that this would cause to become unsound ([here](be5a164d77/src/memtable.rs (L166)), where additional locking is used to ensure unique access to an aliased `Rc<T>`; I saw this because it was linked on the tracking issue).
This moves the stable sort implementation to the core::slice::sort module. By
virtue of being in core it can't access `Vec`. The two `Vec` used by merge sort,
`buf` and `runs`, are modelled as custom types that implement the very limited
required `Vec` interface with the help of provided allocation and free
functions. This is done to allow future re-use of functions and logic between
stable and unstable sort. Such as `insert_head`.
`VecDeque::resize` should re-use the buffer in the passed-in element
Today it always copies it for *every* appended element, but one of those clones is avoidable.
This adds `iter::repeat_n` (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/104434) as the primitive needed to do this. If this PR is acceptable, I'll also use this in `Vec` rather than its custom `ExtendElement` type & infrastructure that is harder to share between multiple different containers:
101e1822c3/library/alloc/src/vec/mod.rs (L2479-L2492)
Attempt to reuse `Vec<T>` backing storage for `Rc/Arc<[T]>`
If a `Vec<T>` has sufficient capacity to store the inner `RcBox<[T]>`, we can just reuse the existing allocation and shift the elements up, instead of making a new allocation.
run alloc benchmarks in Miri and fix UB
Miri since recently has a "fake monotonic clock" that works even with isolation. Its measurements are not very meaningful but it means we can run these benches and check them for UB.
And that's a good thing since there was UB here: fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/104096.
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disable btree size tests on Miri
Seems fine not to run these in Miri, they can't have UB anyway. And this lets us do layout randomization in Miri.
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