Mark mutex as robust to prevent deadlocks #1233
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Prevent application hangs that occur when a thread dies while holding a mutex, particularly during vTaskEndScheduler or exit calls. This is achieved by setting the PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST attribute on the mutex. Fixes: - GitHub issue: FreeRTOS#1217 - Forum thread: freertos.org/t/22287 Signed-off-by: Gaurav Aggarwal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Aggarwal <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Gaurav Aggarwal <[email protected]>
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| ev->event_triggered = false; | ||
| pthread_mutex_init( &ev->mutex, NULL ); | ||
| pthread_mutexattr_init( &ev->mutexattr ); | ||
| #ifndef __APPLE__ |
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I wonder how we can get similar benefits on macOS/iOS
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From CORTEX_MPU_M3_MPS2_QEMU_GCC remove unused configNUM_TX_DESCRIPTORS define and remove HEAP3 from as heap_4.c is used. Signed-off-by: Florian La Roche <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Rahul Kar <[email protected]>
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Description
Prevent application hangs that occur when a thread dies while holding a mutex, particularly during vTaskEndScheduler or exit calls. This is achieved by setting the PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST attribute on the mutex.
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Tested locally using the modified application as suggested in this thread. Was also tested by @denravonska.
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