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From: Stanislav Meduna <stano-eBkVDd3zSwodnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: malloc/free and priority inheritance?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:06:36 +0200
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Hi,

I am hunting a possible priority inversion case and I would like
to ask whether the malloc/free from glibc (particularly 2.11.3
used in Debian 6 or newer) uses priority inheritance mutexes
when doing the necessary locking.

There is http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12114
which would suggest that it is not - is this (still) true?
If yes, is there some patch or are there tried&tested alternative
malloc libraries that do not have the problem (e.g. tcmalloc)?
I am using it on a RT_PREEMPT_FULL linux-rt.

Please Cc me on answer, I am not subscribed to libc-help

Thanks
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                                        Stano