Patch - Enable POSIX Keys in All Configurations

[Joel Sherrill]

On 3/5/2014 2:51 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Joel,
> I suspect you need more changes in confdefs.h to put the keys in the
> configuration and debug configurations structures, and to accurately
> estimate the workspace memory usage, in case POSIX_KEYS are used
> without having posix enabled.
Ahh... yep... forgot both those. Not surprising since this turned out to be
a lot of simple changes spread out.
> Nothing else seemed obviously wrong at a quick read through.
> Considering you updated the .scn files, I take it you have run the
> psxkey tests with this change.
Yep. Both with POSIX enabled and disabled.

I will fix that in condefs.h and shoot it again.
> Gedare
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> As discussed in various threads and private conversations, task variables
>> are broken by design on SMP systems. POSIX keys are a standard way
>> to have SMP safe per task data. But currently they are only available
>> when --enable-posix is specified.
>>
>> This rather tedious patch enables them all the time. It touches the
>> configuration, code, and reworks the tests to use Classic tasks.
>>
>> The next step is to eliminate the use of task variables in the
>> cpukit code. That code is unsafe for SMP systems.
>>
>> OK to apply?
>>
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