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Goal
Enhance the existing kmutex implementation to be more robust, efficient, and feature-complete for kernel synchronization.
Context
The current kmutex implementation provides basic mutual exclusion but could benefit from improvements in performance, debugging capabilities, and additional features needed for a robust kernel synchronization primitive.
Definition of Done
- Performance improvements: Optimize lock/unlock operations for minimal overhead
- Debugging support: Add lock tracking, deadlock detection, and ownership validation
- Priority handling: Implement priority inheritance to prevent priority inversion
- Timeout support: Add kmutex_lock_timeout() for non-blocking operations with timeouts
- Recursive locks: Support for recursive mutex acquisition by the same thread
- Error handling: Improve error reporting and validation of mutex operations
- Statistics: Add lock contention statistics and performance monitoring
- Documentation: Comprehensive API documentation with usage examples
Potential Improvements
- Add kmutex_trylock() for non-blocking lock attempts
- Implement fair scheduling to prevent lock starvation
- Add mutex debugging modes (leak detection, double-lock detection)
- Support for different mutex types (normal, recursive, errorcheck)
- Integration with kernel debugging and profiling tools
- Lock ordering validation to detect potential deadlocks
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