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Date:      Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:48:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mutex.h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001208164811.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001208164153.V16205@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On 09-Dec-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [001208 16:14] wrote:
>> jhb         2000/12/08 16:14:44 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/sys              mutex.h 
>>   Log:
>>   Remove a comment that referrred to the obsolete mtxf struct.
> 
> So with or without debug we waste space? or don't use any extra space?

We don't use space.  With debug, we (ab)use the description pointer to point to
a debug structure, and store the description pointer in that struct, with a
suitable #define of mtx_description. :)  Due to this, you have to use a special
MUTEX_DECLARE() macro to declare mutexes initialized before malloc() is working
that statically allocates the appropriate mtx_debug and makes the mtx point to.
(Along with a special MTX_COLD flag for mtx_init() on these mutexes so that
mtx_init knows not to malloc() a debug struct but to use the one already
pointed to.)  It's not the prettiest solution, but mtxf was uglier. :)

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