On 06/28/2011 06:42 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
I could not find a definition of the mutex struct, to determine
whether it contains any user-alterable values. When "the value" is
declared outside the mutex struct, it will be accessible also
*without* locking the mutex first.
What do you mean by "Mutex struct". The Data structure a Mutex
internally uses is in Kernel space and invisible to the user program.
With appropriate archs (such as X86 and modern ARM), in fact pthreadlib
uses FUTEX instead of MUTEX, here a data structure in user land memory
is allocated by the library, but a user program never should access it.
When using a MUTEX or FUTEX as a critical section it protects all the
data that only is accessed by instructions issued after doing the
"enter" and before doing the "leave" call. So it's entirely up to the
user program to define what data is protected.
-Michael
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