Doing this instead of using the current (user) priority, which includes
current lendings, prevents gratuitous failures for threads involved in
multiple locking groups, where each group is defined as the threads that
can lock a particular PP or PI mutex. No deadlock can occur in this
case. Indeed, if a thread holds such a lock A giving it a higher
priority than the ceiling of some other lock B that is PP, and B is
acquired by another thread, effectively the latter may not be able to
run but this situation can only last until the first thread releases A,
which it will do eventually.