I read about this sleeping spin lock:

http://lwn.net/Articles/271817/

What is that?   I don't quite understand.   Normal spin lock is
poll-based, but sleeping spin lock is not, then how does it differed
from mutex then?

Thank you for the answer :-).

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Peter Teoh

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