On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:18 PM, John David Anglin <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have noticed that the notifierMutex mutex is initialized to all >> zeros (i.e., it's declared static). Is this ok with our nptl implementation? > > Forget this, it's done in Tcl_MutexLock. In NPTL the hppa locks are all zero. We no longer use load-and-clear-word for anything in userspace. Even the dynamic initialization will zero the lock. We are just like every other architecture... with the exception that we currently have more bugs :-) Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
