Mutexes and spinlocks

Study Mutexes and spinlocks in Swadhyai's Operating Systems notes. Part of Synchronization under Computer Science.

Mutexes and spinlocks is a Operating Systems lesson in SwadhyAI Notes, under Synchronization.

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Related lessons

• Race conditions and critical sections
• Peterson's solution (software)
• Hardware synchronization (Test-and-Set, Compare-and-Swap)
• Mutexes and spinlocks
• Semaphores
• Monitors and condition variables
• Producer–consumer (bounded buffer)
• Readers–writers problem (detailed)
• Dining philosophers (deep dive)