In software engineering, a spinlock is a lock that causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking whether...

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(critical section) on uniprocessor systems; spinlocks, which prevent, in multiprocessor systems, spinlocking-thread from being preempted; dynamic dispatchers[citation...

strategy in certain circumstances, most notably in the implementation of spinlocks within operating systems designed to run on SMP systems. The following...

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is a synchronization mechanism, or locking algorithm, that is a type of spinlock that uses "tickets" to control which thread of execution is allowed to...

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become ready to run after being blocked in a particular situation, then spinlocks are an acceptable solution (for that situation only).[citation needed]...

list_head lp; 2 struct list_head lp; 3 long key; 3 long key; 4 spinlock_t mutex; 4 spinlock_t mutex; 5 int data; 5 int data; 6 /* Other data fields */ 6...

otherwise the while-loop spins waiting to acquire the lock. This is called a spinlock. At any point, the holder of the lock can simply set the memory location...

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includes two more lightweight mutual exclusion solutions—latches and spinlocks—which are less robust than locks but are less resource intensive. SQL...

progress. Hence, if two threads can contend for the same mutex lock or spinlock, then the algorithm is not lock-free. (If we suspend one thread that holds...

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variables Synchronization between threads using read write locks and barriers Spinlocks The POSIX semaphore API works with POSIX threads but is not part of the...

parallelism while eliminating, to the greatest degree possible, the "disabled spinlocks" which had been employed in earlier IBM operating systems. Similarly,...

control. They are used for testing CPUs, for example, when overclocking. Spinlock in a poorly written program may cause similar symptoms, if it lasts sufficiently...

types (which can only be manipulated by a set of specific operators), spinlocks, semaphores, mutexes,: 176–198  and lockless algorithms (e.g., RCUs)....

On multi-processor systems, the thread may instead poll the mutex in a spinlock. Both of these may sap performance and force processors in symmetric multiprocessing...

requesting the lock until it is allowed to access the locked resource. With a spinlock, the thread simply waits ("spins") until the lock becomes available. This...

inactive (used with floating-point unit) 0x9B XCHG Exchange data r :=: r/m; A spinlock typically uses xchg as an atomic operation. (coma bug). 0x86, 0x87, 0x91...

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user to either respond to a prompt to continue, or reset the device. Spinlocks are low-level synchronization mechanisms used in concurrent programming...

preemptively scheduled threads, and synchronization constructs including spinlocks and atomic operations are unnecessary when writing fibered code, as they...

also when the return prediction stack underflows. The latency for the spinlock PAUSE instruction has been increased dramatically (from the usual 10 cycles...

information, checking that programs are not allowed to deadlock, so any held spinlocks must be released and only one lock can be held at a time to avoid deadlocks...

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