Mutual Exclusion
Explains how mutual exclusion prevents race conditions around shared resources and summarizes the requirements of correct synchronization.
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Critical Sections
Explains how race conditions arise in critical sections and how locks, mutexes, semaphores, and spinlocks protect them.
Busy Waiting
Explains how busy waiting consumes CPU while waiting for a lock, along with its benefits, costs, and appropriate use cases.
Spinlocks and Mutexes
Compares spinlocks and mutexes by waiting behavior, context-switch cost, and the conditions under which each is appropriate.