Synchronization primitives
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This chapter describes synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel.
- the first part of this chapter describes implementation of spinlock mechanism in the Linux kernel.
- the second part describes another type of spinlocks - queued spinlocks.
- this part describes implementation of semaphore
synchronization primitive in the Linux kernel.
- this part describes - mutex
in the Linux kernel.
- this part describes special type of semaphores - reader/writer
semaphores.
- this part describes sequential locks in the Linux kernel.