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the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel, find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying to lock the malloc spinlock against itself. The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily wait to be signalled when a thread exists. |
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