Robust Futex patches available

[David Singleton <dsingleton@mvista.com>]

   There are two new patches for Robust Futex support available at

   http://source.mvista.com/~dsingleton

   patch-2.6.14-rt13-rf3 fixes two locking bugs which caused hangs and 
deadlocks.

   patch-2.6.14-rt13-rf4 adds support for pthread_mutexes 'malloc'ed on 
the heap.

   I'd also like some advice on the direction POSIX is heading with 
respect to
   robust pthread_mutexes and priority inheritance.

   It appears there are some not used openposix tests that use 
different flags for
   defining robustness.      Here is a snip from the openposix robust 
test's README:

Robust Mutex Tests
------------------------
The tests are under <rtnptl-tests>/robust_test directory.

rt-nptl supports 'robust' behavior, there will be two robust modes,
one is PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_NP mode, the other is
PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_SUN_NP mode. When the owner of a mutex dies in
the first mode, the waiter will set the mutex to ENOTRECOVERABLE
state, while in the second mode, the waiter needs to call
pthread_mutex_setconsistency_np to change the state manually.

Currently the PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_NP is providing
the fucntionality described by the PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_SUN_NP.

Any advice on which way we should go?   I feel we should follow
POSIX and provide both methods and the new pthread_mutex_setconsistency_np
function which provides the mutex recovery mechanism.

David

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