impl Sync for FixedRegisters?
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Description
AcpiPlatform, which contains FixedRegisters, is marked as Sync. So is it safe to also mark FixedRegisters as safe? My use case is storing a Arc<FixedRegisters> in a global variable.
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Start by locating the definitions of AcpiPlatform and FixedRegisters and reviewing why AcpiPlatform is marked Sync. Determine whether sharing FixedRegisters through Arc is sound under Rust's Sync requirements; done means reaching a justified safety decision and recording or testing it in the relevant project locations.
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- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 5/5
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