They are designed to protect shared hardware resources (e.g. I2C
controller).
Please refrain using them as a general purpose synchronization primitive
for the tasks to avoid unintended slippery effects (e.g. priority inversion),
use the provided message-passing functions instead for that purpose.
The mutex variable (ie the "struct mutex") should be initially filled
with 0, but this is the default compiler behavior if you declare it as a
global variable.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org>
BUG=None
TEST=make qemu-tests
Change-Id: I328f7eadf5257560944dbbbeda0b99d5b24520e8
Signed-off-by: Randall Spangler <rspangler@chromium.org>
BUG=chrome-os-partner:7456
TEST=if it runs, it works
Change-Id: Ib82afab7d53203af31eefc9887feb98679266ac1
The constants don't work with the DECLARE_IRQ() macro yet, because it
relies on stringizing the IRQ number.
Signed-off-by: Randall Spangler <rspangler@chromium.org>
BUG=none
TEST=none
Change-Id: Ie6ddecd79e28c319b095089131579ba994a17da3
(cherry picked from commit e24904644a977f2618f51629cc066b93a3d53595)
