A k_futex is a lightweight mutual exclusion primitive designed
to minimize kernel involvement. Uncontended operation relies
only on atomic access to shared memory. k_futex structure lives
in application memory. And when using futexes, the majority of
the synchronization operations are performed in user mode. A
user-mode thread employs the futex wait system call only when
it is likely that the program has to block for a longer time
until the condition becomes true. When the condition comes true,
futex wake operation will be used to wake up one or more threads
waiting on that futex.
This patch implements two futex operations: k_futex_wait and
k_futex_wake. For k_futex_wait, the comparison with the expected
value, and starting to sleep are performed atomically to prevent
lost wake-ups. If different context changed futex's value after
the calling use-mode thread decided to block himself based on
the old value, the comparison will help observing the value
change and will not start to sleep. And for k_futex_wake, it
will wake at most num_waiters of the waiters that are sleeping
on that futex. But no guarantees are made on which threads are
woken, that means scheduling priority is not taken into
consideration.
Fixes: #14493.
Signed-off-by: Wentong Wu <wentong.wu@intel.com>
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