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Thomas Veerman
accaae9b2c libmthread: add guard pages to stacks
Add guard pages to the top of the stack to catch overflow errors.
Moreover, fix a bug where libmthread would keep using a stack that was
just deallocated; a detached thread would deallocate its own stack after
it was finished running).
2012-02-13 13:50:31 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
c8d0edc06a - Refactor mthread structure fields to prevent name clashes
- Remove sanity checks for initialized mutexes and condition variables. This
  significantly boosts performance. The checks can be turned back on by
  compiling libmthread with MTHREAD_STRICT. According to POSIX operations on
  uninitialized variables are a MAY fail if, therefore allowing this
  optimization.
- Test59 has to be accommodated to the lack of sanity checks on uninitialized
  variables in the library. It specifically tests for them and will run into
  segfaults when the checks are absent in the library.
- Fix a few bugs related to the scheduler
- Do some general code cleanups
2011-03-18 10:29:54 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
a7072a5e1c Revamp the mthread library and update test59
Before, the 'main thread' of a process was never taken into account anywhere in
the library, causing mutexes not to work properly (and consequently, neither
did the condition variables). For example, if the 'main thread' (that is, the
thread which is started at the beginning of a process; not a spawned thread by
the library) would lock a mutex, it wasn't actually locked.
2010-09-30 13:44:13 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
12e167f672 Add libmthread and test59 to test the implementation 2010-09-21 12:22:38 +00:00