that this provokes. "Wherever possible" means "In the kernel OR NOT
C++" (implying C).
There are places where (void *) pointers are not valid, such as for
function pointers, but in the special case of (void *)0, agreement
settles on it being OK.
Most of the fixes were NULL where an integer zero was needed; many
of the fixes were NULL where ascii <nul> ('\0') was needed, and a
few were just "other".
Tested on: i386 sparc64
exit function has invalidated the need for _spin[un]lock_pthread().
The _spin[un]lock() functions can now dereference curthread without
the danger that the ldtentry containing the pointer to the thread
has been cleared out from under them.
that take the address of a struct pthread as their first argument.
_spin[un]lock() just become wrappers arround these two functions.
These new functions are for use in situations where curthread can't be
used. One example is _thread_retire(), where we invalidate the array index
curthread uses to get its pointer..
Approved by: re/blanket libthr
in thr_private.h
o Lock down the ldt_entries array and ldt_free, which points to
the next free slot. As noted in the comments, it's necessary
to special case the initial_thread because %gs is not setup
for it yet. This is ok because that early in the program there
won't be any reentrancy issues anyways.
Approved by: re/blanket libthr
as curthread in the new context, so that it will be set automatically when
the thread is switched to. This fixes a race where we'd run for a little
while with curthread unset in _thread_start.
Reviewed by: jeff
