[Xenomai-core] Xenomai v2.2-rc2

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Here is the second release candidate for the v2.2 branch. Short log
follows:

[x86,ppc64] Fix ugly Adeos-related SMP bug involving kernel-based
             Xenomai threads.

[nucleus] Extend pipeline head optimizations.
           Provide  thread "held" state for later temporal partitioning
           support.
           Add PIP resource stealing.
           Add support for per-process data.
           Add cleanup handler to synchronization objects.
           Work around SuSE-originated GCC 4.x bug (optimizer
           issue) in message pipe support.
           Fix xnpod_unblock_thread() (don't raise XNBREAK for
           ready threads).
           Fix xnpod_start_thread() (error code propagation).
           Add missing symbol exports.

[posix]   Update for PIP resource stealing.
           Set default mutex priority protocol to PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE.

[rtdm]    Refactor mutex, sema4 and event implementation.
           Fix rtdm_strncpy_from_user().
           Fix PIP handling code.

[vxworks] Update for PIP resource stealing.
           Reset timer upon unload.
           Fix tick handler return value.
	  Fix stack overflow in demo program.

[native]  Update for PIP resource stealing.
           Fix rt_task_delete() when killing a non-shadowed thread.
           Fix T_JOINABLE bit conflict.

[vrtx]    Update for PIP resource stealing.

[rtai]    Update for PIP resource stealing.

[testsuite]  Allow running multiple tests in parallel.
              Allow pinning down the sampling task to a specified
              CPU.

Aside of this, all Adeos patches have been upgraded.

Please see the ChangeLog for details.

http://download.gna.org/xenomai/testing/xenomai-2.2-rc2.tar.bz2

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Philippe.