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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2012-05-10 22:16:15 -0400
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2012-05-10 22:16:15 -0400
commit47c2a22fd6adcaf3f27b093df49bd97e3fdc16e7 (patch)
tree6e2c087aacb0887f69c347ab1ec0bddcc479d48a /src
parent7e310e591e61cde57cf3960d6a064a1de2e94e6c (diff)
downloadmusl-47c2a22fd6adcaf3f27b093df49bd97e3fdc16e7.tar.gz
remove __lock dependency from exit
there's no sense in using a powerful lock in exit, because it will never be unlocked. a thread that arrives at exit while exit is already in progress just needs to hang forever. use the pause syscall for this because it's cheap and easy and universally available.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/exit/exit.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/exit/exit.c b/src/exit/exit.c
index ae557c09..fc291484 100644
--- a/src/exit/exit.c
+++ b/src/exit/exit.c
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "libc.h"
+#include "atomic.h"
+#include "syscall.h"
static void dummy()
{
@@ -13,10 +15,10 @@ weak_alias(dummy, __fflush_on_exit);
void exit(int code)
{
- static int lock[2];
+ static int lock;
/* If more than one thread calls exit, hang until _Exit ends it all */
- LOCK(lock);
+ while (a_swap(&lock, 1)) __syscall(SYS_pause);
/* Only do atexit & stdio flush if they were actually used */
__funcs_on_exit();