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Rollup merge of #71607 - RalfJung:pin-drop-panic, r=nikomatsakis

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clarify interaction of pin drop guarantee and panics

Cc https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/232
@Diggsey would this have helped?
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//! otherwise invalidating the memory used to store the data is restricted, too.
//! Concretely, for pinned data you have to maintain the invariant
//! that *its memory will not get invalidated or repurposed from the moment it gets pinned until
//! when [`drop`] is called*. Memory can be invalidated by deallocation, but also by
//! when [`drop`] is called*. Only once [`drop`] returns or panics, the memory may be reused.
//!
//! Memory can be "invalidated" by deallocation, but also by
//! replacing a [`Some(v)`] by [`None`], or calling [`Vec::set_len`] to "kill" some elements
//! off of a vector. It can be repurposed by using [`ptr::write`] to overwrite it without
//! calling the destructor first.
//! calling the destructor first. None of this is allowed for pinned data without calling [`drop`].
//!
//! This is exactly the kind of guarantee that the intrusive linked list from the previous
//! section needs to function correctly.