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9 What are mutexes?
12 In the Linux kernel, mutexes refer to a particular locking primitive
15 or similar theoretical text books. Mutexes are sleeping locks which
26 Mutexes are represented by 'struct mutex', defined in include/linux/mutex.h
69 While formally kernel mutexes are sleepable locks, it is path (ii) that
87     - Held mutexes must not be reinitialized.
88     - Mutexes may not be used in hardware or software interrupt
95     - Uses symbolic names of mutexes, whenever they are printed
104 Mutexes - and most other sleeping locks like rwsems - do not provide an
165 When to use mutexes
168 Unless the strict semantics of mutexes are unsuitable and/or the critical