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2     Welcome, to Rusty's Remarkably Unreliable Guide to Kernel
3     Locking issues.  This document describes the locking systems in
4     the Linux Kernel in 2.6.
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6     With the wide availability of HyperThreading, and <a class="firstterm" href="glossary.html#gloss-preemption"><em class="firstterm">preemption </em></a> in the Linux
7     Kernel, everyone hacking on the kernel needs to know the
8     fundamentals of concurrency and locking for
9     <a class="firstterm" href="glossary.html#gloss-smp"><em class="firstterm"><acronym class="acronym">SMP</acronym></em></a>.
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