We need to protect access to the param_values array. This is dynamically
allocated and resized (utarray_reserve() calls realloc). If some thread
was iterating the array while another was resizing the array, the first one
would iterate on a freed array, thus accessing invalid memory.
On NuttX this could lead to hardfaults in rare conditions.
Unfortunately we need to initialize the semaphore on startup, by calling
sem_init(). This adds a param_init() method called by every board/config
that uses the params (at least I think I've found all of them)
Beat Küng