Re: initialize a mutex into locked state?

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>   To my surprise I found out that it's not possible to initialise a mutex into
>   a locked state.
>   I discussed it with Arjan and apparently there's no fundamental reason
>   not to allow this.

There is. A mutex _must_ have an owner. If you can initialize it in
locked state, you could do so statically, ie. outside of the context of
a task.