What is a spinlock? //Source Dive// 002 @LowByteProductions
What is a spinlock? //Source Dive// 002  @LowByteProductions
Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this installment of //Source Dive//, we're back in the xv6 OS codebase, exploring timers, the early boot process, and a very useful concurrency primitive: The Spinlock!

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