hi

what is spin lock?

thanks

ankit 
--- "Dhiman, Gaurav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Use either semaphore or spin locks for mutual
> exclusion
> 
> Gaurav
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Rakesh Jagota
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:03 AM
> To: kernelnewbies
> Subject: Mutual Exclusion in Kernel
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I have defined one array of structures in the kernel
> which can be seen
> by
> all the modules. Now I would like to have mutual
> exclusion , that is if
> any
> module is accessing the array ,no other module
> should not access the
> same
> array, since it is a global array.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards
> Rakesh
> 
> 
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