ofiwg/libfabric — pull request #264 by pmmccorm (2014-11-04 22:16:57+00:00)
Title: Clean up mutex abstraction and atomic getter-setters in fi.h

The snippet in configure.ac which checked for intrinsics was incorrectly always
failing so the atomic gcc intrinsics have never been compiled. Additionally this set
is deprecated as of GCC 4.7 which introduced a new set of intrinsics. Replace them
with test for the new c11 intrinsics + implementation, tested on gcc 4.9.1.

Replaced the semaphore implementation of a mutex with a plain old pthread mutex.
semaphore.h is part of posix/libc, just like pthreads which we require
explicitly-- so just use that.

Allow the mutex to be compile-time selected as either a mutex or a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: pmmccorm