CUET PG 2026 — operating system os PYQ
CUET PG | operating system os | 2026Linux Concurrency Kernels
List-I (Linux Lock Type)
A. Mutexes
B. Spinlocks
C. Reader-Writer Spinlocks
D. Seqlocks
List-II (Operational Implementation behavior)
Sleep-locks; task yields CPU if the resource is unavailable
Short busy-wait loops; unusable in code that can sleep/yield
Allows multiple concurrent reading cores, but isolates writers
Uses a sequence counter; readers retry if a writer increments it
