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>Unreliable Guide To Locking</H1
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>Paul Rusty Russell</H3
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>The Problem With Concurrency</A
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>Two Main Types of Kernel Locks: Spinlocks and Semaphores</A
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>Locks and Uniprocessor Kernels</A
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>Read/Write Lock Variants</A
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>Locking Only In User Context</A
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>Locking Between User Context and BHs</A
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>Locking Between User Context and Tasklets/Soft IRQs</A
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>Locking Between Bottom Halves</A
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>The Same BH</A
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>Locking Between Tasklets</A
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>Deadlock: Simple and Advanced</A
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>Big Reader Locks</A
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>Avoiding Locks: Read And Write Ordering</A
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>Avoiding Locks: Atomic Operations</A
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>Protecting A Collection of Objects: Reference Counts</A
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>Racing Timers: A Kernel Pastime</A
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