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authorPatrick Williams <iawillia@us.ibm.com>2011-06-17 12:35:39 -0500
committerA. Patrick Williams III <iawillia@us.ibm.com>2011-06-24 11:30:00 -0500
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parent74d2fd5773f91470e17009b5da93f9d4a5cb1d5c (diff)
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Remove heap allocation of xscom mutex.
Since mutexes are simply a uint64 with a static initializer, the xscom mutex is now a instance variable directly in the cpu object. Remove unneeded mutex_create function and changed the behavior of mutex_destroy. Change-Id: If6e1d1bf0083c32ef9e7502d27678811bdaf7e1e Reviewed-on: http://gfw160.austin.ibm.com:8080/gerrit/150 Tested-by: Jenkins Server Reviewed-by: Douglas R. Gilbert <dgilbert@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thi N. Tran <thi@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/sys/sync.h')
-rw-r--r--src/include/sys/sync.h15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/sys/sync.h b/src/include/sys/sync.h
index 68b570aec..b6274a0a6 100644
--- a/src/include/sys/sync.h
+++ b/src/include/sys/sync.h
@@ -51,12 +51,6 @@ void barrier_destroy (barrier_t * i_barrier);
void barrier_wait (barrier_t * i_barrier);
/**
- * Create a mutex and initialize a mutex
- * @returns a pointer to the mutex
- */
-mutex_t * mutex_create();
-
-/**
* Initialize a mutex object
* @param[out] o_mutex the mutex
* @pre an uninitialized mutex object
@@ -65,11 +59,12 @@ mutex_t * mutex_create();
void mutex_init(mutex_t * o_mutex);
/**
- * Destroy a mutex
- * @param[in/out] i_mutex The mutex
- * @pre mutex must have been created with mutex_create()
+ * Destroy / Uninitialize a mutex object.
+ * @param[in] i_mutex The mutex
+ * @note This does not free the memory associated with the object if the mutex
+ * was allocated off the heap.
*/
-void mutex_destroy(mutex_t *& io_mutex);
+void mutex_destroy(mutex_t * i_mutex);
/**
* Obtain a lock on a mutex
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