malloc/free and priority inheritance?

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 4 April 2013 20:23, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> ... and ARM uses the generic C code.
>
> My comments in BZ#12114 still remain. Why can't we make malloc/free
> use PI locks? We need not convert lll_lock, but just make malloc-machine.h
> use a PI-aware lock?

The trouble (as always) is to decide on when to use PI-aware locks.
Do we do that by default or do we have (*chuckle*) an environment
variable to override the default locks?  Maybe this discussion is more
suitable for libc-alpha though, since we can hopefully get all
maintainers to chime in there.

Siddhesh
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