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Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel.
This chapter describes synchronization primitivies in the Linux kernel.
- Introduction to spinlocks - the first part of this chapter describes implementation of spinlock mechanism in the Linux kernel.
- Queued spinlocks - the second part describes another type of spinlocks - queued spinlocks.
- Semaphores - this part describes implementation of
semaphore
synchronization primitive in the Linux kernel. - Mutual exclusion - this part describes -
mutex
in the Linux kernel.