On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Well, in case of a semaphore it is a semantically correct use case. In > case of of a mutex it is not.
I disagree.
Think of "initialization" as a user. The system starts out initializing
stuff, and as such the mutex should start out being held. It's that
simple. It _is_ mutual exclusion, with one user being the early bootup
state.
Linus
