expand comment on default mutex behavior
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@ -28,14 +28,18 @@ impl Mutex {
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// A pthread mutex initialized with PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER will have
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// a type of PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT, which has undefined behavior if you
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// try to re-lock it from the same thread when you already hold a lock.
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// try to re-lock it from the same thread when you already hold a lock
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// (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_mutex_init.html).
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//
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// In practice, glibc takes advantage of this undefined behavior to
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// implement hardware lock elision, which uses hardware transactional
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// memory to avoid acquiring the lock. While a transaction is in
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// memory to avoid acquiring the lock.
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// This is the case even if PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT == PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL
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// (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/33770#issuecomment-220847521).
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// As a consequence, while a transaction is in
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// progress, the lock appears to be unlocked. This isn't a problem for
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// other threads since the transactional memory will abort if a conflict
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// is detected, however no abort is generated if re-locking from the
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// is detected, however no abort is generated when re-locking from the
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// same thread.
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//
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// Since locking the same mutex twice will result in two aliasing &mut
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