diff --git a/candle-core/examples/llama/weights.rs b/candle-core/examples/llama/weights.rs
index cc3fccd4..c3364cef 100644
--- a/candle-core/examples/llama/weights.rs
+++ b/candle-core/examples/llama/weights.rs
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ impl Llama {
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let handles: Vec<_> = filenames
             .iter()
-            .map(candle::safetensors::MmapedFile::new)
+            .map(|f| unsafe { candle::safetensors::MmapedFile::new(f) })
             .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
         let tensors: Vec<_> = handles
             .iter()
diff --git a/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs b/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs
index b80a756a..99e11c60 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ fn convert_<T: WithDType>(view: st::TensorView<'_>, device: &Device) -> Result<T
         Tensor::from_slice(data, view.shape(), device)
     } else {
         let mut c = Vec::with_capacity(elem_count);
+        // SAFETY: We just created c, so the allocated memory is necessarily
+        // contiguous and non overlapping with the view's data.
+        // We're downgrading the `c` pointer from T to u8, which removes alignment
+        // constraints.
         unsafe {
             std::ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(v.as_ptr(), c.as_mut_ptr() as *mut u8, v.len());
             c.set_len(elem_count)
@@ -42,9 +46,15 @@ pub struct SafeTensors<'a>(st::SafeTensors<'a>);
 pub struct MmapedFile(memmap2::Mmap);
 
 impl MmapedFile {
-    pub fn new<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(p: P) -> Result<Self> {
+    /// Creates a wrapper around a memory mapped file from which you can retrieve
+    /// tensors using [`MmapedFile::deserialize`]
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// The unsafe is inherited from [`memmap2::MmapOptions`].
+    pub unsafe fn new<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(p: P) -> Result<Self> {
         let file = std::fs::File::open(p)?;
-        let mmap = unsafe { memmap2::MmapOptions::new().map(&file)? };
+        let mmap = memmap2::MmapOptions::new().map(&file)?;
         Ok(Self(mmap))
     }