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
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